 | John Bell - 1788 - 628 páginas
...envious darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me; else O thievish Night 195 \Vliy wouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars, That Nature hung in Heav'n, and lill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller... | |
 | John Milton, Thomas Warton - 1799 - 148 páginas
...wand'ring 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...lantern thus close up the stars That Nature hung in heav'n, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 924 páginas
...frionious tA In thy dark ianti .orn thus close up the Stan, That niture hung in heav'n^uidnirdtheirl^p With everlasting oil, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller? IfdtetThe ttiniit Gcxt susp-cted him, and took The hind aside, and thus in whispers spoke: Disco /tr... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 434 páginas
...envious darkness, ere they could return, Mad stole them from me ; else O thievish Night AVhy would»t 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, to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller?... | |
 | John Milton - 1808 - 96 páginas
...; And envious darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me : else, O thievish Night, Ig5 Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, In...give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ? 200 This is the place, as well as I may guess, Whence even now the tumult of lond mirth Was rife,... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1808 - 496 páginas
...of praise in inferior kinds. Many painters, who could never hit a nose or an eye, have with felicity O thievish night, Why should'st thou, but for some...heaven, and fill'd their lamps With everlasting oil? &c. Pope is in general very prone in this respect j indeed, such is th% present taste and good sense,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1809 - 386 páginas
...'i'o feed for aye her lamp, and flames of lore." JUalonc. Thus also, Milton, in his Coonis, v. 197 : " the stars " That nature hung in heaven, and fill'd their lamps " With everlasting oil ." The propriety of the emendation suggested by Mr. Malone, will be increased, if we recur to our author's... | |
 | John Milton - 1810 - 540 páginas
...darkness, ere they could return, Had stole them from me: else, O thievish Night, Why should'st them, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus...give due light To the misled and lonely traveller ? This is the place, as well as I may guess, Whence even now the tumult of loud mirth Was rife, and... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 páginas
...steps too far ; And envious darkness, ere they could return, Hadstole them from me: else, Othievish Night, Why should'st thou, but for some felonious...close up the stars, That Nature hung in Heaven, and lill'il their With everlasting oil, to give due light [lamps To the misled and lonely traveller ? "... | |
 | William Hayley - 1810 - 418 páginas
...wandering steps too far; And envious 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 filFd their lamps With everlasting oil^ to give due light... | |
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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... 
