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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. "
Excelsior: Helps to Progress in Religion, Science, and Literature - Page 110
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The British Poets: Including Translations ...

British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 272 pages
..." 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...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 the eye...
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Evenings in Autumn: On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The ...

Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 pages
...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 cave. That against privations and disadvantages, great and apparently overwhelming as were these, blind,...
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The Vision; Or, Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise of Dante Alighieri

Dante Alighieri - 1822
...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...
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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 17-18

British essayists - 1823 - 820 pages
...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...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 th' eye...
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Continuation of the Rambler

Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - Authors, English - 1823 - 514 pages
...word Let there be light, atid 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...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 as th''...
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Paradise Regained: Samson Agonistes, Comus and Arcades

John Milton - Bible - 1823 - 220 pages
...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...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 the eye...
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The British Essayists: Rambler

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1823 - 408 pages
...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, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself;...
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The British anthology; or, Poetical library, Volumes 1-2

British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...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...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 the eye...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton ...

John Milton - 1824 - 510 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 she deserts...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 ш every pan ; why was...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 3

John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...light was over all ; •.'.-..•• Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? ••/» .Ss The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, .,. When she...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 87. And silent as the moon, &c.] The sun to me is dark, There cannot be a better note And silent as...
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