Chairs Quote by Ben Jonson

“To Selene (Moon) Hear, Goddess queen, diffusing silver light, bull-horn'd and wand'ring thro' the gloom of Night. With stars surrounded, and with circuit wide…

— Orpheus

Lady, the sun's light to our eyes is dear, And fair the tranquil reaches of the sea, And flowery earth in May, and bounding…

— Euripides

“The people cast themselves down by the fuming boards while servants cut the roast, mixed jars of wine and water, and all the gods…

— Nikos Kazantzakis

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompany'd; for beast and bird, They to…

— John Milton

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne, In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world.

— Edward Young

And when night, guiding her bright train of stars, Throws o'er the sleeping world her gloomy veil, Lonely amidst the desert and the darkness,…

— Alphonse de Lamartine

“reached beneath the folds of her cloak and brought forth a lamp, a delicate thing hanging on a slender chain. “To light your way…

— Lesley Livingston

The sad and solemn night hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires; The glorious host of light walk the dark hemisphere till she retires;…

— William C. Bryant

“In her minds eye she sat there, in the domesticated golden sunlight on the velvet sofa, lapped around by carpets and books and mahogany,…

— Jane Smiley

Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair…

— William Shakespeare

In the center of all rests the sun. For who would place this lamp of a very beautiful temple in another or better place…

— Nicolaus Copernicus

“This night is not calm; the equinox still struggles in its storms. The wild rains of the day are abated; the great single cloud…

— Charlotte Brontë