 | Scotland - 1838 - 938 pages
...their depth and their overshadowings — yet show the stars. " Silence and Darkness ! solemn sisters I twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought,...resolve, That column of true majesty in man, Assist me !" To sing a cheerful song — a merry roundelay ? No — such a song as may help to save his soul... | |
 | Edward Young - 1839 - 324 pages
...curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness ! solemn sisters ! twins From ancient Night, who nnrse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build...shrine. But what are ye ? Thou, who didst put to flight Primeval Silence, when the morning stars, Exulting, shouted o'er the rising ball , O Thou, whose word... | |
 | Edward Young - Bible - 1839 - 300 pages
...let her prophecy be soon fulnll'd: Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness ! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse...tender thought \To reason, and on reason build resolve, l(That column of true majesty in man) Assist me: I will thank you in the grave; The grave your kingdom:... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - Bethany (W. Va.) - 1839 - 616 pages
...pursuit of truth, which we shall consider in our next. RR THE POWER OF SILENCE. '•Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters; twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason." YOUNG. IT seems not a little remarkable that our inquirers after truth, and our writers upon logic... | |
 | Gems - 1841 - 624 pages
...her prophecy be soon fulfilled : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness: solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse...But what are ye? — Thou who didst put to flight Primeval silence, when the morning stars . i voL. II. 4 Kxulting, shouted o'er the rising vale. O Thou!... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1841 - 844 pages
...fulfill'd ; ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Icnce and darkness ! solemn sisters ! twins i ancient night, who nurse the tender thought ! To reason,...; The grave, your kingdom : there this frame shall A victim sacred to your dreary shrine. [fall But what are ye ! — Thou who didst put to flight Primeval... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1841 - 370 pages
...commencing his strain, with a majesty worthy of its aims and end, he calls upon " Silence and darkness, solemn sisters, twins From ancient night, who nurse...thank you in the grave — The grave, your kingdom " Following the course of the sombre inspiration that he adjures, he then passes in a vast review before... | |
 | Elizabeth M. Stewart - 1843 - 342 pages
...fantastic ornaments in wood and plaster. CHAPTER II. •' Silence, and darkness 1 solemn sisters twins 1 From ancient night who nurse the tender thought, To...resolve ; That column of true majesty in man, Assist me 1" YOCNO. IT was with feelings of the utmost alarm, that John Harding, being awakened by repeated knockings,... | |
 | Edward Young - Death - 1844 - 370 pages
...her prophecy be soon fulfill'd ; Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and darkness ! solemn sisters ! twins From ancient night, who nurse...shrine. But what are ye ? Thou, who didst put to flight Primeval silence, when the morning stars, Exulting, shouted o'er the rising ball ; O Thou, whose word... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...her prophecy be soon fulfilled : Fate ! drop the curtain ; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness ! which was alternately his chair and bed : a little calendar of small sticks lay at th ou reason build resolve (That column of true majesty in man), Assist me : I will thank you in the grave... | |
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Fate! drop the curtain; I can lose no more. Silence and Darkness! solemn sisters! twins From ancient Night, who nurse the tender thought To reason, and on reason build resolve— That column of true majesty in man... 
