 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 pages
...and light was over all ; Why sun I thus bereaved thy prime decree ! The sun to me is dark. And pileut as the moon. When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunarcaTe, Since light no necessary is to life, And nlnrwt life itself ; if it be true, That light... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...great 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 the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, 90 And almost life itself, if it be true That... | |
 | Woman - Women - 1840 - 806 pages
...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 Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. — Samson Agon. Such are the lamentations, though rarely so eloquently uttered, which... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all;" Why am I thus bcreav'd thy prime decree! nsummate lovely smil'd ; interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is lo life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...great Word, ' Let there be light, and light was over all ;' Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? ampbell interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pages
...great woH " Let there be light, and light was over ill." Why am I ihus bereaved thy prime decree ' The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant ioterlunar cave," etc. Contrast with this dreadful complaint tbe luguage of him who was born blind... | |
 | 1842 - 748 pages
...necessary to understand it." We are not sure whether it is not in the same passage that he instances — " The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." We honestly confess ourselves to be in the same predicament with this distinguished... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all ," Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree .' ncied so, through expectation high Of knowledge ; nor was godhead from interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life. And almost life itself, if it be true That light... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...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, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light... | |
 | Jesus Christ - 1843 - 224 pages
...dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon Irrecoverably dark ; total eclipse, Wilhiml the hope of day 1 The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon When she deserts the night." — MILTON. How greatly is this calamity increased, when to it are added the sorrows of poverty ! The... | |
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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. 
