 | Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle - 1849 - 494 pages
...look, that I lost the hope of the height." 3 Into the valley where there is no light of the Sun. " The Sun to me is dark, And silent as the Moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." Mihon, Samson Agvii. CANTO i. INFERNO. 7 Whilst I was rushing downwards, there appeared before my eyes... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 140 pages
...great Word, Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? " Let there be light, and light was over all;" The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. And almost life itself, if it be true Since light so necessary is to life, That light is in the soul,... | |
 | India - 1850 - 540 pages
...like minute guns. But so they passed away. The flash and the report, in a very few years, " To me were dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." Not so Wordsworth. I remember well a friend reading to me in London, where I then lived, in the year... | |
 | Dante Alighieri, John Aitken Carlyle - 1849 - 416 pages
...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.''... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...first-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...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was this... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...great beam, and thon 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... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - English literature - 1852 - 458 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... | |
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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. 
