456 LIGHT
Mehr Licht!
More light!
Said to be the last words of Goethe.
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| text = <poem>Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.
Where there is much light, the shadows are
deepest.
Goethe—Gbtz von Berlichingen. I. 24.
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| text = Blasted with excess of light.
Gray—Progress of Poesy.
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| text = <poem>Like our dawn, merely a sob of light.
Victoh Hugo—La Legende des Siecles.
The true light, which lighteth every man that
cometh into the world.
John. I. 9.
He was a burning and a shining light
John. V. 35.
Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness
come upon you.
John. XII. 35.
The Light that Failed.
Kipling—Title of Story.
The prayer of Ajax was for light;
Through all that dark and desperate fight,
The blackness of that noonday night.
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| work = The Goblet of Life. St. 8.
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| text = <poem>Fra P ombre un lampo solo
Basta al nocchier fugace
Che gia ritrova il polo,
Gia riconosce il mar.
In the dark a glimmering light is often sufficient for the pilot to find the polar star and
to fix his course.
Metastasio—Achille. I. 6.
With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.
| author = Milton
| work = Comus. L. 340.
He that has light within his own clear breast
May sit i' th' centre and enjoy. bright day;
But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun.
| author = Milton
| work = Comus. L. 381.
Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.
| author = Milton
| work = Il Penseroso. L. 79.
But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloisters pale,
And love the high embowed roof,
With antique pillars massy proof,
And storied windows richly dight;
Casting a dim religious light.
| author = Milton
| work = // friimnmi. L. 155.
Compare Emu fides—Bacchw. 486.
LIGHT
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| text = Hail, holy light! offspring of heaven firstborn!
Or of th' eternal co-eternal beam,
May I express thee unblam'd? since God is light
And -never but in unapproached fight
Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee,
Bright effluence of bright essence increate!
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost. Bk III. L. 1.
Dark with excessive bright.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. III. L. 380.
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And from her native east,
To journey through the aery gloom began,
Spher'd in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun
Was not.
| author = Milton
| work = Paradise Lost.
| place = Bk. VII. L. 245.
There swift return
Diurnal, merely to officiate light
Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.
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And this I know; whether the one True Light
Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,
One flash of it within the Tavern caught
Better than in the temple lost outright.
Omar Khayyam—Rubaiyat. St. 77. FrrzGerald's trans.
Where art thou, beam of light? Hunters from
the mossy rock, saw ye the blue-eyed fair?
Ossian—Temora. Bk. VI.
Ex luce lucellum.
Out of light a little profit.
Pitt's description of the Window Tax. Also
suggested by Robert Lowe, Chancellor, as
a motto for matchboxes, when the British
Government introduced a match tax, 1871.
Those having lamps will pass them on to others.
Plato—Republic. 328.
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
Pope;—Epitaph Intended far Sir Isaac Newton
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| text = <poem>Nut der Gewissenswurm schwarmt mit der
Eule. Sunder undboseGeisterscheun das Licht.
Only the worm of conscience consorts with
the owl. Sinners and evil spirits shun the fight.
Schiller—Liebe und Cabak. V. I.
Light seeking light doth light of light beguile:
So, ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.
Love's Labour's Lost. Act I Sc. 1. L. 77.
But it is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
Algernon Sidney—Discourses on Government. Ch. II. Sec.XXIII.
'Twas a light that made
Darkness itself appear
A thing of comfort.
Sodthey—The Curse of Kehama. Padalon
St. 2.
