 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1853 - 456 pages
...black'ning in the moonless airv. J Morn came, and \\enfr, I and came, and broughi no dayv;| And men forgo* their pas'sions | in the dread Of this their desolation...all hearts Were chill'd into a selfish prayer for ligh^. | And they did live by watch'-fires ; | and the thrones, | The palaces of crowned kings1 —... | |
 | J H. Aitken - Elocution - 1853 - 378 pages
...DARKNESS. 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 hlind and blackening in the moonless air ; Morn came, and went, and came — and brought no day, And... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Apologetics - 1853 - 498 pages
...of the creative energy of God. Shall all these lie scattered irregularly in chaotic clusters, and " Wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth Swing blind and blackened in the moonless air ?" Or shall they be summoned to course in beauteous order... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...DARKNESS. I had a dream, which was not ail a dream. The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless,...dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light : And they did live by watchfires — and the thrones, The... | |
 | Herschel S. Porter - Theology, Doctrinal - 1854 - 412 pages
...reality : — " 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...dread Of this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light." Were there no atmosphere, the rays of tlie sun not being... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Elocution - 1854 - 440 pages
...some portions of the following extracts : — 44. " The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." 45. " Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what... | |
 | 1854 - 44 pages
...Take the following from Byron's Dream of " Darkness :" "The bright sun was extinguished and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air." ******* " The world was void, " The populous and the powerful were a lump, Sensonless, herbless, treeless,... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 pages
...Borror : " I had a dream which was not all a dream : The bright sun was extinguish'd ; and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;" — Amazement: "What may this mean, That thou dead corse, again, 5n complete steel, Revisit'st thus... | |
 | 1854 - 386 pages
...sun wan extinguished and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, '.' J* I' • I • " . Rayless and pathless, and the icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless Air." * * * » .»•«.*• " The world was void, "The populous and the powerful were a lump,. Seasonless,... | |
 | William Russell - 1855 - 310 pages
...pauses.) " 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 blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went,—and came, and brought no day. " The world was void: The populous and the powerful was a lump,—... | |
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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... 
