 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1808 - 334 pages
...and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : The sun to me is dark, And silent at the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant...interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And Ğlmost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul, She all in ev'ry part; w why was the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 412 pages
...created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was ovur all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent...necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul, She all in ev'ry part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...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...necessary is to life, 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...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...necessary is to life, 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 460 pages
...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...necessary is to life, And almost life itself; if it be true, That light is in the soul, She all in ev'ry part; why was the sight To such a tender ball... | |
 | 1810 - 462 pages
...created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was o.ver all ; Why Mil I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark, And Silent...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 370 pages
...created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why I'm I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ! The sun to me is dark, And silent...interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, A nd almost life itself ; if it be true, That light is in the soul, She all in ei'ry part ; why was... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all ;" Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? .85 The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When...interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part; why was... | |
 | William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens - 1813 - 416 pages
...interlunii, alii silentis lunce 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." WARBURTON. I believe this display of learning might have been spared. Silent, though an adjective,... | |
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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. 
