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" Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. "
The Works of the Author of The Night-thoughts - Page 202
by Edward Young - 1802
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A Grammar of the English Language: For the Use of Schools

William Harvey Wells - 1847 - 228 pages
...Liberty ! Freedom ! Tyranny is dead : Run hence, proclaim, cry it about the streets ! " — Shakspeare. " 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 ! " — Young. " Hail, holy light !...
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The Fourth Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed for the ...

Salem Town - 1847 - 420 pages
...read on a low note, with slow movement, and a clear voice, approaching monotone. EXAMPLES. Grandeur. 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 ! Sublimity. The clouds...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and ...

John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...pain, (A bitter change !) severer for severe. The Day too short for my distress ; and Night, 15 E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the...majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. 20 And lot her prophecy be soon fulfill'd Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no...
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Parsing Book: Containing Rules of Syntax, and Models for Analyzing and ...

Allen Hayden Weld - 1848 - 120 pages
...distress ; and night, Even in the zenith of her dark domain, Js sunshine to the color of my fate. 20 Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne, In rayless...majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence3 how dead ! and darkness3 how profound ! Nor eye, nor listening ear, an object...
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Lessons in Enunciation: Comprising a Course of Elementary Exercises, and a ...

William Russell - 1848 - 94 pages
...and earth will witness, If Eome must fall, that we are innocent.' EXERCISES ON TIME. Slowest Bate. ' 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...
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North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for ...

David Bates Tower - 1853 - 444 pages
...wretched he forsakes ; Swift on his downy pinion flies from woe, And lights on lids unsullied with a tear. 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...
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The Indicator: A Literary Periodical Conducted by Students of ..., Volumes 1-3

1848 - 936 pages
...coincidence. Young took as dark a view of the night as one conveniently could in three short lines. " Night, sable goddess, from her ebon throne In rayless...majesty now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er the slumbering world." Who would think of crowding a greater number of sombre epithets into so short...
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Tales for the Young

Emma Catherine Embury - 1848 - 224 pages
...drawn over such unutterable woe. CHAPTER III. " The day too short for my distress; and night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the colour of my fate." YOUNG. MOUTHS passed away ; the glow of health once more dwelt upon the fair child's cheek, and her...
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Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts

John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...pain, (A bitter change !) severer for severe. The Day too short for my distress ; and Night, 15 E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the...majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. 20 Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound Nor eye nor listening ear an object...
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The Beauties of the British Poets: With a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - 1849 - 416 pages
...pain, (A bitter change !) severer for severe : The day too short for my distress ; and night, E'en in the zenith of her dark domain, Is sunshine to the...majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er n slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye, nor list'ning ear, an object...
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