 | Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle - 1849 - 416 ページ
...Augusto, Al tempo degli Dei falsi e bugiardi. 13 Into the valley where there is no light of the Sun. " The Sun to me is dark, And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night, 14 Allusion to the long neglect of Virgil's works before Dante's time. Fioco also means "faint of voice.''... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 ページ
...all;" Why am I thus bereaved my prime decree? VThe sun to me is dark, A in! silent as the moon, Xhen she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar...why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd? And not, as feeling, through all parts diflus'd, That... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 ページ
...an embryonic consciousness."27 Milton's Samson is similarly perplexed over the thingness of light: Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life...That light is in the Soul, She all in every part. (90-93) The bond between mind and light was assumed even in the scientific tradition, where students... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 ページ
...created Beam, and 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...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. [80-89] How poorly the chorus understands this man, as they enter now, judging him only by outward... | |
 | Jorge Luis Borges - 1964 - 496 ページ
...behave: tfogni luce muto and dove il sol tace to signify dark places; in the Samson Agonistes (86-89): The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon When...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Cf. EMW Tillyard: The Miltonic Setting, 101. fore posed: Can an author create characters superior to... | |
 | John Milton - 1988 - 244 ページ
...created Beam, and 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...Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life it self, if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 ページ
...created Beam, and 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...interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almosl life itself if it be true That light is in the Soul, She all in every part; why was the sight... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 ページ
...created Beam, and 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...every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as th' eye confined? So obvious and so easy to be quenched, And not as feeling through all parts diffused,... | |
 | Richard Harland - 1993 - 276 ページ
...applies when poetry accentuates the syntagmatic side of language. Consider again my example from Milton: The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Here the meaning of the whole stretches even further than usual away from the individual words. It... | |
 | Charlotte Smith - 1993 - 370 ページ
...however, will surely be understood — I address the Moon when not visible at night in our hemisphere. "The Sun to me is dark, / And silent as the Moon / When she deserts the night, / Hid in her secret interlunar cave." Milton. Samson Agonistes [lines 86-89]. Sonnet 79. Line 7. bells ... dyes:... | |
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Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When she 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,... 
