 | Edward Young - 1844 - 370 pages
...Ev'n 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...world. Silence, how dead ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the gen'ral pulse Of life... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...Dr. Chalmers excels among prose writers. Dr. Young thus addresses Night : " Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dread ! and darkness how profound ' Nor eye nor listening ear an object... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 pages
...enchanted smil'd, and wav'd her golden hair." EXERCISES O'N TIME. Slowest Rate. " 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate. Night, sable goddess ! nd every track \Vas a Hash of golden fire. 0 happy living things ! no tongue Their beau slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening car an object... | |
 | 1844 - 764 pages
...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... | |
 | George Willson - 1844 - 300 pages
...suffering cease ; Think of heaven's bliss, and give the sign To parting friends : — Such death be mine ! Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object finds ; Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - 1844 - 522 pages
...beauty his first address to Night 1 " Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majrsty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumb'ring world. Silence how dread ! and darkness how profound I Nor eye nor list'ning ear an oblect flndu; CreRtion sleeps. 'Tie... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat. On the Value of Time to Man. YOUNG. 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 I Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - 1845 - 348 pages
...north ia on the plain, and the traveler shrinks in the midst of his journey. 12. 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 can object... | |
 | 1845 - 1174 pages
...weary man, " Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep, his ready visit pays. Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence, how dread ! and darkness, how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an... | |
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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. 
