 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 is in the soul, She all in every part;...  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Էջ 10John Milton - 1852Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 էջ
...great Word, " Let there be light, and light was over all;" Why am I thus bercav'd thy prime decree ! The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When...part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd ? And not, as feeling, through all parts diffus'd,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 614 էջ
...interlunii, alii silentis lunae appellant. Lib. xvi. cap. 39. In imitation of this language, Milton says : " The sun to me is dark, " And silent as the moon, "...deserts the night, " Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." WAREURTON. I believe this display of learning might have been spared. Silent, though an adjective,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 էջ
...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...part ; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd? And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused,... | |
 | 1822 - 370 էջ
...Ihou great word Let there be light, and light was over all; \Vhy am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When...every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the' eje confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd, And not as feeling, through all parts diffused,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 էջ
...great 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...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. That against privations and disadvantages, great and apparently overwhelming as were these, blind,... | |
 | Dante Alighieri - 1822
...from 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 էջ
...thou 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...why was the sight To such a tender ball as th' eye confined, So obvious. and so easy to be quench'd? And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 378 էջ
...great word liet 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...every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the' eje confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd, And Dot as feeling, through all parts diffused,... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 220 էջ
...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...every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as the eye confined, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd? And not, as feeling, through all parts diffused,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1823 - 514 էջ
...great 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...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'' eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to... | |
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