 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 pages
...difficulty- of - breaking - through - bad - habits. - will - avoid - that - labour - by - prevention. Night, - sable - goddess ! - from - her - ebon - throne,...stretches - forth Her - leaden - sceptre - o'er - a slumbering - world. Silence - how - dead ! - and - darkness - how - profound! Nor - eye - nor - listening... | |
 | Henry Bartlett Maglathlin - 1849 - 80 pages
...Define grandeur. Vastness. Pathos. Reverence. Adoration. 5. Deep Solemnity, Awe, and Consternation. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object... | |
 | David Purdie Thomson - 1849 - 516 pages
...! from her ebon throne, In ruyless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumVring world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound...list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps." YOUMO, — AsyAt Thouyhu. This height is farther confirmed by astronomical calculations. 29. Believing... | |
 | George Benjamin Woods - 1916 - 1604 pages
...my distress; and Night, Even in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the color of my fate. him against a mode of false criticism which has been applied to poetry, in which t 20 Her leaden scepter o 'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - 1920 - 314 pages
...my distress; and night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how deadl and darkness' how profoundl Nor eye nor listening ear an object... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...Call. (See also LONGFELLOW) 7 Night begins to muffle up the day. WITHERS — Mistresse of Philarete. 8 5 slumbering world. Silence, how dead! and darkness, how profound! S»or eye, nor list'ning ear, an object... | |
 | Judah Leo Landau - 1923 - 196 pages
...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,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1925 - 424 pages
...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, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Nifht Thought!, Nithtl. DR. E. YOUNG. All is gentle ; naught Uirs rudely ; but, congenial... | |
 | Eino Railo - 1925 - 500 pages
...epätoivon vallassa. Juhlallisesti deklamoiden hän runoilee: Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, 1n rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. »Hiljaisuus ja pimeys» ovat hänelle »juhlallisia sisaruksia», »kaksoisia». Blairin nimenomaisena... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1926 - 744 pages
...Distress ! and Night Even in the Zenith of her dark Domain, Is Sun-shine, to the colour of my Fate. Night, sable Goddess ! from her Ebon throne, 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... | |
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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. 
