 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1848 - 428 pages
...dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went — and came, and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread... | |
 | David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
..." The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless ; and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." 45. " Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what... | |
 | Charles Buxton - Philanthropists - 1848 - 652 pages
...hostility to which he was exposed. It was then that he often reminded me of that glowing passage — ' Come one, come all — this rock shall fly From its firm base aa soon as 1.' "I should not do him justice in thus speaking of his courage, if I neglected to mention... | |
 | Charles Buxton - Enslaved persons - 1849 - 542 pages
...hostility to which he was exposed. It was then that he often reminded me of that glowing passage — ' Come one, come all— this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I.' \ "I should not do him justice in thus speaking of his courage, if I neglected to mention that, combined... | |
 | James W. Redfield - Facial expression - 1849 - 110 pages
...it ; for to " stand one's ground," as we familiarly say, is to exercise both of these faculties. " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I" — expresses the simultaneous action of self-defence and firmness. The horse has the signs of both... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1849 - 320 pages
...The bright sun was extinguished ; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless ; and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went, — and came, and brought no day. " The world was void : The populous and the... | |
 | William Russell - 1849 - 310 pages
...The bright sun was extinguished ; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless ; and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went, — and came, and brought no day. " The world was void : The populous and the... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless; and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; BYRON. Morn came, and went — and came and brought no day, And men forgot their passions in the dread... | |
 | Fanny Foley - Ocean travel - 1850 - 226 pages
...your match soon, Fanny, if you are not beaten at your own weapons." "I defy them," said I proudly. " ' Come one, come all, this rock shall fly From its firm base, as soon as I.' " 25th. 'We shall make the shortest trip, Mr. Spencer thinks, that has yet been made to the land of... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...the chief his haughty stare, His back against a rock he bore, And firmly placed his foot before : " Come one, come all ! this rock shall fly From its firm base as soon as I."— Sir Roderick marked — and in his eyes Respect was mingled with surprise, And the stern joy which... | |
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I had a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air... 
