 Is now the labour of my thoughts ; 'tis likeliest They had engaged their wandering steps too far ; And envious darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish night, Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark...  The Observatory - Page 3341911Full view - About this book
 | Robert Deverell - 1813 - 354 pages
...West India Islands, who derived their name from the shelter they found in the multitude of creeks 132 In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars, That nature hung in heaven, andfiU'd their lamps With .everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ?... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford - 1819 - 366 pages
...Darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus...close up the stars, That Nature hung in Heaven, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ? This... | |
 | John Aikin - 1820 - 832 pages
...darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish Night, Why should'st thou, beam ? So fade the fair, When fevers revel through their azure veins. Tliat Nature hung in Heaven, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish Night ! Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus...close up the stars, That Nature hung in heaven, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ? This... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 220 pages
...darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish Night, Why sbouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus...close up the stars, That Nature hung in Heaven, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller? This... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...darkness, ere thy could return, 1У4 Had stole them from me ; else, О thievish Night, Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus...close up the stars, That nature hung in heaven, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller? 200... | |
 | British anthology - 1824 - 460 pages
...Darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish Night, Why should'st thon, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus...close up the stars, That Nature hung in heaven, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ? This... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me ; else, O thievish night, Why wouldst thou, d. COTsuS. She fables not ; I feel that I do fear Her words set off by some superior power ; Heav'n, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller?... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 518 pages
...itself, he did not pause to reject it. So in the exquisite Comus : O thievish night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars, That Nature hung in Heav'n, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil ? &c. Pope is in general very pure in this respect... | |
 | Alexander Pope, William Roscoe - 1824 - 606 pages
...itself, he did not pause to reject it. So in the exquisite Comus : O thievish night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars, That Nature hung in Heav'n, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil? &c. Pope is in general very pure in this respect:... | |
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