 Shakes off her wonted firmness. Ah ! how dark Thy long-extended realms, and rueful wastes ! Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night, Dark as was chaos, ere the infant sun Was roll'd together, or had tried his beams Athwart the gloom profound.  The Quarterly Review - Page 3891822Full view - About this book
 | 1822 - 1148 pages
...sympathies are not less alive to the amiable weaknesses, and even to the superstitions which, among a Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night,...that never pressed upon the sense, above him, his * '.\iii ,*( T.^HJ-HS: Ti.'7'Hc MAXirwc >in*i T«v Xoyvv, oi rait irl;i fttyifnt -rvyytaafa «m»,... | |
 | 1847 - 648 pages
...appall'd Shakes off her wonted firmness. Ah! how dark Thy long-extended realms, and rueful wastes, Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night, Dark as was chaos ere the infant sun Was roll'd together, or had tried his beams Athwart the gloom profound ! the sickly taper, By glimmering... | |
 | Minstrel - 1824 - 246 pages
...«ppall'd Shakes off her wonted firmness. Ah! how dark Thy long-extended realms, and rueful wastes ; Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night. Dark as was chaos ere the infant sun Was roll'd together, or had tried its beams Athwart the gioom profound 1 The sickly taper, By glimm'ring... | |
 | British anthology - 1825 - 460 pages
...Shakes off her wonted firmness. Ah! how dark Thy long-extended realms and rueful wastes ; Where naught but silence reigns, and night, dark night, Dark as was Chaos ere the infant Sun Was roll'd together, or had tried its beams Athwart the gloom profound ! The sickly taper, Byglimmering... | |
 | John Johnstone - 1827 - 596 pages
...appall'd Shakes oiFher wonted firmness. Ah! how dark Thy long-extended realms, and rueful wastes ! Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night, Dark as was chaos, ere the infant sun Was roll'd together, or had try'd his beams Athwart the gloom profound! The sickly taper By glimm'ring... | |
 | 1837 - 308 pages
...is going in a contrary direction — the one sees light at a distance, but with the other all is " Dark as was chaos ere the infant sun Had tried his beams athwart the gloom profound." I have been led to make these remarks from the long-continued discussion in THE VETERINARIAN on Puerperal... | |
 | Matthew Gregory Lewis - 1832 - 262 pages
...exchange his crown. THE MONK. 201 CHAPTER VII. Ah how dark These long-extended realms and rueful wastes ; Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night, Dark as was chaos ere the infant sun Was rolled together, or had tried its beams Athwart the gloom profound ! The sickly taper, By glimmering... | |
 | 1851 - 724 pages
...Sbikee off her wonted firmuese. Ah ! how dark Thy long-extended realms, and rueful waste»! Where naught but silence reigns, and night, dark night. Dark as was chaos ere the infant »un Was roll'd together, or had tried ita beams Athwart the gloom profound." These few lines give... | |
 | 1851 - 1220 pages
...off her wonted firmness. Ah ! how dark Thy long-extended realms, and rueful wastes 1 Where naught tut silence reigns, and night, dark night, Dark as was chaos ere the infant sun Was roll'd together, or had tried its beams Athwart the gloom profound." These few lines give more... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 pages
...appall'd Shakes off her wonted firmness. Ah ! how dark Thy long-extended realms, and rueful wastes ! Where nought but silence reigns, and night, dark night, Dark as was chaos ere the infant sun Was roll'd together, or had tried its beams Athwart the gloom profound ! The sickly taper, By glimmering... | |
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