| 1821 - 494 Seiten
...half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon '. Total eclipse, Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light,...over all, Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepid age ! Happy indeed, if those " children of... | |
| John Aikin - 1821 - 356 Seiten
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou 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 she deserts the night,... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 Seiten
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day. O first created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be...over all ;" Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 Seiten
...dark ! amid the blaze of noon ' Irrecoverably dark ! total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O 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 as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 494 Seiten
...concluded by such expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light,...over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
| Domestic, literary and village sketches - 1823 - 168 Seiten
...cast of feature speaks forcibly privation of sight, most pathetic is thy appeal — O fair-created beam, and thou great word, Let there be light —...over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ?f * Of Horace Walpole's contributions to literature, we notice only his opinion on " Grace in Writing."... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1823 - 408 Seiten
...concluded by such expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : O 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 SuB to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the nighl,... | |
| British essayists - 1823 - 820 Seiten
...concluded by such expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : O 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 as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 490 Seiten
...expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair: O first created beam, and them 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 she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
| John Milton - 1823 - 220 Seiten
...of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created Beam, and thon 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 she deserts the night,... | |
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