The Improvisatrice (1824)
“And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night.”
Pt. I, The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride, st. 8.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 97.
The Golden Violet - The Broken Spell
The Golden Violet (1827)
"Light" (popularly known as "The Night has a Thousand Eyes"), published in The Spectator (October 1873).
Context: p>The Night has a thousand eyes,
And the Day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.</p
Le Vent de l'Esprit, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Originally in Latin; translated by Agnes Mary Clerke (1842–1907)
Quoted in Sky and Telescope, March 2011, p. 33
The Blue Stocking.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Founding Address (1876)
Context: The world is dark around us and the prospect seems deepening in gloom. and yet there is light ahead. On the volume of the past in starry characters it is written — the starry legend greets us shining through the misty vistas of the future — that the great and noble shall not perish from among the sons of men, that the truth will triumph in the end, and that even the humblest of her servants may in this become the instrument of unending good. We are aiding in laying the foundations of a mighty edifice, whose completion shall not be seen in our day, no, nor in centuries upon centuries after us. But happy are we, indeed, if we can contribute even the least towards so high a consummation. The time calls for action. Up, then, and let us do our part faithfully and well. And oh, friends, our children's children will hold our memories dearer for the work which we begin this hour.
