 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 456 pages
...concluded by such expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to leam from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light,...over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 462 pages
...expostulations postulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus berea/d thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1820 - 206 pages
...amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day! O, first erected beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree ? This affecting quotation, uttered with that peculiar solemnity and pathos... | |
 | Edward Holt - 1820 - 730 pages
...Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse. Without all hope of day! O, first erected beam, and them great WoRP, Let there be light, and light was over all ; Why am I thus bereavM thy prime decree?" This affecting quotation, uttered with that peculiar solemnity and pathos... | |
 | 1821 - 494 pages
...half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon '. Total eclipse, Without all hope of day ! O first created Beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light,...over all, Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepid age ! Happy indeed, if those " children of... | |
 | John Aikin - 1821 - 356 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably 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 bercav'd thy prime decree ! The Sun to me is dark And silent as the Moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse, Without all hope of day. O first created Beam, and thou great Word, " Let there be...over all ;" Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...dark ! amid the blaze of noon ' Irrecoverably 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 ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 494 pages
...concluded by such expostulations and wishes, as reason too often submits to learn from despair : O first created beam, and thou great word Let there be light,...over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark, And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar... | |
 | Domestic, literary and village sketches - 1823 - 168 pages
...cast of feature speaks forcibly privation of sight, most pathetic is thy appeal — O fair-created beam, and thou great word, Let there be light —...over all ; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ?f * Of Horace Walpole's contributions to literature, we notice only his opinion on " Grace in Writing."... | |
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Let there be lig;ht, 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 she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. 
