| Eben Norton Horsford - Phrenology - 1839 - 414 pages
...common deeds of destruction, and revelled in the contemplation of universal devastation and death: " The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars Did...earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air. # * * * # # A fearful hope was all the world contained: Forests were set on fire; but, hour by hour,... | |
| Theodore Edward Hook - 1839 - 320 pages
...diploinate sat himself down, and wrote him the following letter. " MY DEAR MORTIMER, Grosvenor Street. ' I had a dream, which was not all a dream ; The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless.' " '... | |
| Theodore Edward Hook - England - 1839 - 218 pages
...Street. "Mr DEAR MOB-TIMER, 'I had a dream, which was not all a dream; The bright sun was extinguish'^, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rayless and pathless.' "'The world' is in 'amazement lost!' — all London is wondering whither you are gone, and why. We... | |
| Theodore Edward Hook - 1839 - 948 pages
...sat himself down, and wrote him the following letter. " MY DEAR MORTIMER, Grosvenor Street. ' I bad a dream, which was not all a dream ; The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Rajless and pathless.1 " '... | |
| Orville Dewey - Sermons, American - 1841 - 312 pages
...material orb would be dark without the light of Heaven to shine upon it. As if <c The bright Sun were extinguished, and the stars Did wander darkling in...icy earth Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air;'1 so would the soul, conscious of its own nature, be, without the light of God's presence shining... | |
| Theodore Edward Hook - 1842 - 432 pages
...sat himself down, and wrote him the following letter : — "_Grosvenor Street. " MY DEAR MORTIMER, ' I had a dream, which was not all a dream ; The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander, darkling, in the eternal space, Kayless and pathless.' " '... | |
| George Brewster - Electricity - 1843 - 268 pages
...would long since have realized the terrific phantasies of Byron's poetic dream on darkness, when — 'The bright sun was extinguished, and the stars 'Did...wander darkling in the eternal space, 'Rayless and patbless, and the icy earth "Swung blind and blackning in the moonless air." The latter alternative,... | |
| George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1843 - 576 pages
...tree, And a bird in the solitude singing, Which speaks to my spirit of thee. July 24, It-US. DARKNESS. I HAD a dream, which was not all a dream. The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the stars Did wander darkling in the eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...warder, ho! , yinuiliii !ii r.--a.iijiu.j .u! ...! ." . .' li'rt»ul !-|-.U'iV...n Very Soft. Very Low. " I had a dream, which was not all a dream, The bright...space, Rayless, and pathless ; and the icy earth Swung Wind and blackening in the moonless air." Very High. " I woke :-^where was I ?—Do I see A human face... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 444 pages
...destroys the effect of the reading, and iinpairs the power of the poetry, on the ear and the heart.] [<?o] I had a dream, which was not all a dream. — The...eternal space, Rayless, and pathless, and the icy earth 5 Swung blind and blackening in the moonless air; Morn came, and went, — and catne, and brought no... | |
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