| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 ページ
...thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus berea/d thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, * Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. .. •• Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is... | |
| Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 456 ページ
...thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul,... | |
| John Aikin - 1820 - 832 ページ
...Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ! Tin' -9+ Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 356 ページ
...great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all;" Why am I thus bercav'd thy prime decree ! The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 614 ページ
...interlunii, alii silentis lunae appellant. Lib. xvi. cap. 39. In imitation of this language, Milton says : " The sun to me is dark, " And silent as the moon, "...deserts the night, " Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." WAREURTON. I believe this display of learning might have been spared. Silent, though an adjective,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 ページ
...great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark ' And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. That against privations and disadvantages, great and apparently overwhelming as were these, blind,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 ページ
...great Word, " Let there be light ! and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
| Dante Alighieri - 1822
...from Troy, 70 When the flames prey'd on Ilium's hanghty towers4 * Where the sun in silenee rests.] The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her Taeant interlunar eave. Milton. Sa. //;;i.•, The same metaphor will reeur, Canto v. verse 29. Into... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 220 ページ
...great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all;" Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 ページ
...thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul,... | |
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