 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1811 - 370 pages
...despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why I'm 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. Since light so necessary... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day .' 9 first created Beam, and thou 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1815 - 236 pages
...Irrecov'rably dark, total eclipse Withont all hope of day ' O first created beam, and thon great word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thns bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The snn to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the... | |
 | Encyclopaedia Perthensis - 1816 - 810 pages
...We add the two Egyptian days in every mo h. Iheiaterluaarjand plcnilunary exemptions. Br.wn. The fun to me is dark, And filent as the moon, When (he deferts the night, Hid in her Meant intcrlunur cave. Milton. * INTERMARRIAGE. »./. [inter and marriage.} Marriage between two families,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 464 pages
...despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am 1 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. Since light so necessary... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1817 - 308 pages
...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...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. Since light so necessary... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 456 pages
...wishes, as reason too often submits to leam from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am...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. Since light so necessary... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, " + ! Tin' Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night. Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | Edward Holt - Great Britain - 1820 - 730 pages
...Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse. Without all hope of day! O, first erected beam, and them great WoRP, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereavM thy prime decree?" This affecting quotation, uttered with that peculiar solemnity and pathos... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1820 - 206 pages
...Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day! O, first erected beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? This affecting quotation, uttered with that peculiar solemnity and pathos... | |
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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. 
