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" The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. "
Evenings in Autumn: On the blindness of Homer, Ossian, and Milton. The ... - Page 282
by Nathan Drake - 1822
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Rambler

Samuel Johnson - 1801 - 458 pages
...concluded by fuch expoftulations and wifhes, as reafon too often fubmits to learn from defpair : O firft created beam, and thou great word Let there be light,...all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The fun to me is dark, And filent as the moon, When ihe d eferts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.

Samuel Johnson - Biography - 1801 - 458 pages
...concluded by fuch expopulations and wifhes, as reaCon too often fubmits to learn from defpair : O firft created beam, and thou great word Let there be light,...all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The fun to me is dark, And Clent as the moon, When fhe d^ferts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar...
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 314 pages
...Still as a fool. In pow'r of others, never in my own, Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half: O dark ! dark ! dark ! amid the blaze of noon : Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hopes of day." « The enjoyment of sight then being so great s. Blessing, and the loss of it so terrible...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 126

1867 - 636 pages
...! Amid the blaze of noon Irrevocably dark ! Total eclipse Without all hope of day ! O first-created beam ! and Thou Great Word " Let there be light ! " and light was over all, Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? ' When his people saw and thought of these dread sufferings — when they...
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An Inquiry Into the Principles of Harmony in Language: And of the Mechanism ...

William Mitford - English language - 1804 - 490 pages
...without rime ever produced in our language. " 0 firfl created beam, and thou great word, Let there he light, and light was over all, Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sin | to me | is dark, t \ t And sl|lent as | the moon When fite | dcferts | rhe night. Hid in | her...
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The Rambler [by S. Johnson and others]., Volume 5

1806 - 468 pages
...expoftula lions populations and wifhes, as reafon too often fubmitf to learn from defpair : O firft created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; - Why am I thus berear'd thy prime decree £ The fun to me is datk, And filent as the moon, When (he deferts die night,...
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The Rambler, by S. Johnson, Volume 3

1806 - 340 pages
...and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair. O first created.beam, and th'on greac word Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thusbereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the...
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The stranger in Liverpool; or, An historical and descriptive view of Liverpool

1807 - 216 pages
...still as a fool. In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark ! amid the blaze of noon. Irrecoverably dark ! total eclipse, Without all hope of day I MILTON'S SAMPSON. Thus dependant for every thing on the good offices of others; obnoxious to injury...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 3-4

John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, 80 Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day I O first created beam, and thou great word, Let there be light, and light was overall ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 5

John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 544 pages
...DUNSTER. ' Veil. 80. 0 ilark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of too*, Without all hope of day ! O firft created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be...over all ;" Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? 85 The fun to me is dark And filent as the moon, When fhe deferts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar...
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