 | 1861 - 356 oldal
...notes, Singing the praises of their great Creator. E. PARK. Silence and Darkness I solemn sisters I twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason, and oA reason build resolve. YOUNG. When day, with farewell beam, delays Among the opening clouds of even,... | |
 | English poets - 1862 - 626 oldal
...her prophecy be soon fulfilled : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness ! solemn sisters ! twins From ancient Night, who nurse...— That column of true majesty in man — Assist me : Itwill thank you in the grave ; The grave your kingdom : there this frame shall fall A victim sacred... | |
 | Wise sayings - 1864 - 394 oldal
...diffident of himself. Maxims, CCCCLXXVIII.— ROCHEFOUCAULT. SILENCE and DARKNESS. Silence and Darkness ! solemn sisters ! twins From ancient Night, who nurse...build resolve (That column of true majesty in man). Night Thoughts, i. Line 28.— EDWARD YOUNG. SILENCE in NATURE. Nature's self is hush'd, And, but a... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - 1865 - 116 oldal
...her prophecy be soon fulfill'tl : Fate! drop the r.urtuin; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse...tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve, 5 (That column of true majesty in man,) Assist me : I will thank you in the grave ; The grave, your... | |
 | Edward Young - 1866 - 574 oldal
...her prophecy be soon fulfill'd ; Fate! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and darkness ! solemn sisters ! twins From ancient night, who nurse...shrine. But what are ye? Thou, who didst put to flight Primeval silence, when the morning stars, Exulting, shouted o'er the rising ball ; 0 Thou, whose word... | |
 | 1866 - 426 oldal
...her prophecy be soon fulfill'd ; Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and darkness ! solemn sisters ! twins From ancient night, who nurse...shrine. But what are ye ? Thou, who didst put to flight Primeval silence, when the morning stars, Exulting, shouted o'er the rising ball ; O Thou, whose word... | |
 | 1867 - 556 oldal
...curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Niurht, wht> vurse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build...your kingdom: there this frame shall fall A victim «acred to your dreary shrine. But what are ye? — Thou who did'st put to flight Primeval Silence,... | |
 | English poems - 1870 - 722 oldal
...her prophecy be soon fulfilled : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness : solemn sisters ! twins From ancient Night, who nurse...in the grave ; The grave your kingdom : there this fame shall fall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine. But what are ye ? — Thou who didst put to... | |
 | Lucien Brock Proctor - 1870 - 808 oldal
...commencing his strain with a majesty worthy of its ends and aims, he calls upon " ' Silence and darkness, solemn sisters, twins From ancient Night, who nurse...thank you in the grave — The grave your kingdom — ' ''Following the course of the sombre inspiration that he adjures, he then passes in a vast review... | |
 | 1870 - 888 oldal
...solemn sisters, twins From ancient Night, who nursed the tender tboaghf To reason, and on reason built resolve — That column of true majesty in man — Assist me ; I will thank you in the grave.*' Mr. Heady is known in the West as the Blind Bard of Kentucky, of which State he is a native. THE WORKS... | |
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Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve— That column of true majesty in man... 
