| Gems - 1841 - 624 oldal
...for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. Night, sable...forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound! i Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds : Creation... | |
| Mrs. Monkland - 1842 - 144 oldal
...driver, and that the horse was wet and covered with sand, as if he had been in the sea. CHAPTER XVIII. " Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne In rayless...forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world." YOUNO "Bat hark! They come -with half-lit tapers in their hands, And snatch'd in startled haste unbelted... | |
| Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 oldal
...abound in the works of the same poet What can exceed in power and beauty his first address to Night? "Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches fnrth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence how dread ! and darkness how profound ! Nor... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 oldal
...for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Blue, glossy green, and velvet black, They coiled...living things ! no tongue Their beauty might declare : Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening car an object finds ; Creation... | |
| William Russell - 1844 - 428 oldal
...close ; And Hope enchanted smil'd, and wav'd her golden hair." EXERCISES O'N TIME. Slowest Rate. " 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... | |
| 1844 - 764 oldal
...and can point to living examples of suffering virtue in the end meeting their due reward. CHAPTER T. 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! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 oldal
...for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, le a ewound ! At length did cross an raylese majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden «ceptre o'er a »lumbering world. .Silence ,how dead... | |
| Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 846 oldal
...severer for severe, le day too shoVt for my distress ; and night, ^en in the zenith of her dark domain, at the Alma was written in imitation of Hudibras I cannot conceive. In former y royless majesty, now stretches forth :r leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world, ence, how dead ! and... | |
| 1845 - 1174 oldal
...itself awakes." To the weary man, " Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep, his ready visit pays. Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, In rayless...forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dread ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds : Creation... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 oldal
...Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. On the Value of Time to Man. YOUKO. 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... | |
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