 | Stanhope Busby - 1837 - 132 pages
...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. And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part ; why was the... | |
 | Thomas Milner - 1837 - 426 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 interlunarcave." Contemplating, then, in the morning's dawn, the hills, the vales, the woods, the streams,... | |
 | 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...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 light is in the... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 1839 - 854 pages
...and /ung. INTERI.U'NARY, adj. > Belonging to the time when the moon, about the change, is invisible The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When...deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. tfilton. We add the two Egyptian days in every month. the interlunary and plenuunary exemptions. Вгоиж.... | |
 | Woman - 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...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. — Samson Agon. Such are the lamentations, though rarely so eloquently uttered, which we daily hear,... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 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...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - 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 ; Since light so necessary is lo life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul,... | |
 | 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...deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave." We honestly confess ourselves to be in the same predicament with this distinguished person. What the... | |
 | 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... | |
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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. 
