 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part, why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quenched, And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused, That she might...  The National Review - Page 90edited by - 1860Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1826 - 540 pages
...Hippolyt. 308. So obvious and so easy to be quench 'd ? 95 And not, as feeling, through all parts diffus'd, That she might look at will through every pore ? Then had I not been thus exil'd from light, As in the land of darkness, yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death,... | |
 | Night watch - 1828 - 596 pages
...sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quenched ; And not as feeling, through all parts diffused, That she might look at will through every pore ? MILTON. WHILE such were part of the husband's employments, an affliction, perhaps the greatest that... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd ? And not as feeling through all parts diffus'd That she might look at will through every pore? Then had I not been thus exil'd from light As in the land of darkness yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death,... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 822 pages
...sight To such a tender hall as the eye confined , So obvious and so easy to be quenched. And not, as host I uew I'urmtd, and ? Id. Thy wailing words do much my spirits move, They uttered are in such a feeling fashion. Sidney.... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...ver. 875. • quantum vel in orbe mearet Luna Cava • Lucret. iv. 392. ' jEtheriis adfixa cavernis.' That she might look at will through every pore ? Then had I not been thus exil'd from light, As in the land of darkness yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1835 - 450 pages
...step further in hyperbole is reserved for him who, being buried, carries about his own sepulchre : " To live a life half-dead, a living death, And buried...but oh, yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave !" No person, if he heard this passage for the first time from the lips of an Irishman,... | |
 | English literature - 1836 - 436 pages
...sight To such a tender ball as th' eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd ? 95 And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused, That she might...pore ? Then had I not been thus exiled from light, As in the land of darkness yet in light, To five a life half dead, a living death, 1 00 And bury'd... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 132 pages
...eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd? And not, as feeling, through all parts diffus'd, That she might look at will through every pore? Then had I not been thus exil'd from light, As in the land of darkness yet in light, To live a life half dead, a living death,... | |
 | Andrew Park - 1839 - 306 pages
...LOST. PART I. " Why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined,— So easy and so obvious to be quenched— And not, like feeling, through all...diffused That she might look at will through every pore?" Chaos sitting on his dark and solitary throne—God commanding the Light—Its birth —Its influence... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd ? 95 And not as feeling, through all parts diffus'd, That she might look at will through every pore ? Then had I not been thus exil'd from light, 87 aHent] ' Mediaeque eilentia lunte.' Stat Theb. ii. 58. ' tacito sub lumine Phrebcn.'... | |
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