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| Night Quotes | No. | Quotation | Last Name | First Name |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Night, like a giant, fills the church, from pavement to roof, and holds dominion through the silent hours. Pale dawn again comes peeping through the windows: and, giving place to day, sees night withdraw into the vaults, and follows it, and drives it out, | Dickens | Charles |
| 2 | The night crept on apace, the moon went down, the stars grew pale and dim, and morning, cold as they, slowly approached. Then, from behind a distant hill, the noble sun rose up, driving the mists in phantom shapes before it, and clearing the earth of thei | Dickens | Charles |
| 3 | It was a dark cold night, with a chill damp wind, which blew the rain heavily against the windows and house fronts. Pools of water had collected in the narrow and little-frequented streets, and as many of the thinly-scattered oil-lamps had been blown out | Dickens | Charles |
| 4 | Darkness now rose, As daylight sunk, and brought in low'ring Night, Her shadowy offspring. | Milton | John |
| 5 | Now black and deep the Night begins to fall, A shade immense! Sunk in the quenching gloom, Magnificent and vast, are heaven and earth. Order confounded lies; all beauty void, Distinction lost, and gay variety One universal blot: such the fair power Of light, to kindle and create the whole. | Thomson | John |
| 6 | How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark-blue depths. Beneath her steady ray The desert-circle spreads. Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night! | Southey | Robert |
| 7 | This sacred shade and solitude, what is it? 'Tis the felt presence of the Deity. * * * * * By night an atheist half believes a God. | Young | Edward |
| 8 | Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. | Young | Edward |
| 9 | All is gentle; naught Stirs rudely; but, congenial with the night, Whatever walks is gliding like a spirit. | Byron | Lord |
| 10 | O radiant Dark! O darkly fostered ray! Thou hast a joy too deep for shallow Day. | Eliot | George |
| 21 quotations on Night |



