 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pagina’s
...linger to survey' The promised joys of life's unmeasured way' ¡ Thus', from afar', each dim-discovered scene' More pleasing seems than all the past hath...repair' From dark oblivion', glows divinely there*. More sweet than all the landscape smiling near' 1 The Miser.—POLLOK. But there is one in folly farther... | |
 | John Frost - 1843 - 132 pagina’s
...Eve! to soothe thy modest ear, Like thy own solemn springs, Thy springs and dying gales."—Collins? " Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world."—Young. SECTION XXVI. CONCLUDING REMARKS. IN the exercises and rules,... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1843 - 554 pagina’s
...works of the same poet. What can exceed in power and beauty his first address to Night? "Night, «able goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence how dread ! and darkne** how profound ! Nor eye nor liiit'nin?... | |
 | 1844 - 616 pagina’s
...we linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been...repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there." There is a kind of inexpressible pleasure in the very task of copying the Claude-like scenery and repose... | |
 | Oscar Israel Woodley, Myra Soper Woodley - 1901 - 330 pagina’s
...silver dew, — it is now a ruby, now a topaz, now an emerald, now all burnished gold.— AUDUBON. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. — YOUNG. Whither midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1902 - 192 pagina’s
...linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; 10 Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been...can repair From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. What potent spirit guides the raptured eye 15 To pierce the shades of dim futurity ? Can Wisdom lend,... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 752 pagina’s
...restorer, balmy sleep! (xvii. 131. 12). I wake : how happy they who wake no more ! (xvii. 131. 18). Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...majesty now stretches forth Her leaden scepter o'er a slumbering world (xvii. 131. 29). The bell strikes one. We take no note of time But from its loss (xvii.... | |
 | Oscar Israel Woodley - 1901 - 568 pagina’s
...silver dew, — it is now a ruby, now a topaz, now an emerald, now all burnished gold. — AUDUBON. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. — YOUNG. Whither midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - 552 pagina’s
...linger to survey The promised joys of life's unmeasured way ; Thus, from afar, each dim-discovered scene More pleasing seems than all the past hath been,...can repair From dark oblivion glows divinely there. . . . Primeval Hope, the Aonian Muses say, When Man and Nature mourned their first decay; When every... | |
 | Jonathan Rigdon - 1903 - 312 pagina’s
...in straight lines, and in all directions from the point of emission. B. (1) Night, sable goddess 1 from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. — Young. (2) All came but Mary. (3) To him who in the love of nature... | |
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joys of life's unmeasur'd way; Thus from afar, each dim discover'd scene, More pleasing seems than all the past hath been And every form that fancy can repair, From dark oblivion, glows divinely there. Night. Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,... 
