 | 1844 - 764 pages
...and can point to living examples of suffering virtue in the end meeting their due reward. CHAPTER T. Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne. In rayless...majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb ring world, Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object... | |
 | George Willson - American literature - 1844 - 300 pages
...suffering cease ; Think of heaven's bliss, and give the sign To parting friends : — Such death be mine ! Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence...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... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English literature - 1844 - 522 pages
...beauty his first address to Night 1 " Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majrsty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence how dread ! and darkness how profound I Nor eye nor list'ning ear an oblect flndu; CreRtion sleeps. 'Tie... | |
 | Religion - 1845 - 1174 pages
...itself awakes." To the weary man, " Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep, his ready visit pays. Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, In rayless...majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dread ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...when the blast of the north ia on the plain, and the traveler shrinks in the midst of his journey. 12. 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 can object... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. On the Value of Time to Man. YOUKO. 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... | |
 | James Edward Murdoch, William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 374 pages
...which they occur, and which they aid by their harmonious effect, as in the following instances : " Night, * || sable goddess, || from her ebon throne | In rayless majesty | now stretches forth I Her leaden sceptre | o'er a slumbering world. Silence || how dead ! |||| and darkness || how profound... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1846 - 390 pages
...when the blast of the north is on the plain, and the traveler shrinks in the midst of his journey. 12. 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 can object... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1846 - 276 pages
...Hovered thy spirit o'er thy sorrowing son, Wretch even then, life's journey just begun ? — Cowper. Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world. Btlence bow deep, and darkness how profound! — Yox-ny. \Jivm. 2.]... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 560 pages
...distress ; and night, Ev'n in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. 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... | |
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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. 
