 | William Jillard Hort - English literature - 1822 - 234 pages
...on the hearth ; Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm. NIGHT. Young, NIGHT, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds. Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and... | |
 | British poets - Classical poetry - 1822 - 284 pages
...distress ; and Night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...were couch'd ; And now wild beasts came forth the woods to roam. Milton's Paradise Regained, b. 1. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life stood still, and nature made... | |
 | 1825 - 486 pages
...calls me murderer and parricide. CONGREVE. Night is rendered feminine from its peaceful influence : — Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. The Seasons are personified agreeably to their diversified nature : — Now Summer with her wanton... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1825 - 310 pages
...unveil'd her peerless light ; And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.— —MILTON Night, sable power ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'riug world. Silence, how dead, and darkness how profound s' Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 504 pages
...calls me murderer and parricide. CONGREVK. Night is rendered feminine from its peaceful influence : — Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forih Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. The Seasons are personified agreeably to their diversified... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...distress ; and night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object... | |
 | Books - 1820 - 398 pages
...honores." p. 264. The first lines of the following passage remind us strongly of a description of Young : " Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps,"' &c. " Nonne vides, quoties nox circumfunditur atra Tmmensi... | |
 | Olinthus Gregory - Authors, English - 1828 - 492 pages
...peu de choses agreables, et leur raison leur apprend à en gouter encore moins." Fontenelle. NIGHT. Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, In rayless...and darkness how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. Young. All but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long... | |
 | Thomas Fanshaw Middleton - Bible - 1828 - 728 pages
...has employed the same mode of speech, without regard to the correctness, which philosophy exacts : " Night, sable Goddess ! from her ebon throne, " In...forth " Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. " Nor eye., nor list'ning ear, ap object finds ; " Creation sleeps." NIGHT I. V. 27. «X« T" i/i^w«.... | |
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Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause! prophetic of her end. 
