 | Judah Leo Landau - 1923 - 196 oldal
...popularity. The first few lines remind one vividly of Young's introductory verses : — " Night . . . from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches...forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. . . Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds." Although the author, in his preface, assures his... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 oldal
...of the Deity. By night an atheist half believes a God. Nifnl Thonghu, Nifht ». DR. E. YOUNG. Sight, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty,...forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Nifht Thought!, Nithtl. DR. E. YOUNG. All is gentle ; naught Uirs rudely ; but, congenial with the... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 oldal
...severer for severe : The Day too short for my Distress ! and Night Even in the Zenith of her dark Domain, Is Sun-shine, to the colour of my Fate. Night, sable...In rayless Majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden Scepter o'er a slumbering world : Silence, how dead ? and Darkness how profound ? Nor Eye, nor list'ning... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - 1927 - 1432 oldal
...severe. The day too short for my distress; and night, 15 stray; RESTORATION AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURY e Highlands, wherever I g<>' Farewell to the Highlands, farewell to the North, The birthplace scepter o'er a slumbering world. 20 Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound! Nor eye, nor list'ning... | |
 | Eino Railo - 1927 - 434 oldal
...mortality, wrapped in a fine and romantically pleasurable despair. With solemn elocution he writes : Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. " Silence and darkness " are to him " solemn sisters," " twins." Blair's expressed... | |
 | Albert Adam Perdeck - 1928 - 124 oldal
...prose, while the passages in which Night itself is depicted are short and few. Take for example I, 18: Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless...forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds; Creation... | |
 | Henry Charles Shelley - 1914 - 358 oldal
...midnight from his sleepless repose, and to his effective apostrophe to the scene of quiescent nature. " Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne. In rayless...majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound I Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 oldal
...on mortality and immortality, in a carefully wrought gloomy context of night: Night, sable goddessl from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches...forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how deadl and darkness, how profound! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds; Creation... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 oldal
...worm of conscience still begnaw thy soul. .. i , WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE What a master he was! Begnaw. Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, In rayless...forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To beguile the time Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, your hand, Your... | |
 | Margaret Bridges - 1990 - 244 oldal
...severer for severe: The Day too short for my Distress! and Night Even in the Zenith of her dark Domain, Is Sun-Shine, to the colour of my Fate. Night, sable...In rayless Majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden Scepter o'er a slumbering world: 20 Silence, how dead? and Darkness how profound? Nor Eye, nor list'ning... | |
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Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and Nature made a pause ; An awful pause ! prophetic of her end. 
