 Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge...  Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly ... - Page 80by John Milton, James Prendeville - 1850 - 382 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above all height, bent down his eye, His own works,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1841 - 840 pages
...returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or Hock?, nd painted Stoa next : There shall thou hear and learn...various-measur'd verse, folian charms arid Dorian lyric odes, lhat I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almichly Father from above,... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - 1841 - 410 pages
...coun'try, | to vindicate the national char,acter: | I invoAe the genius of the British Constitution. | And wisdom, at one entrance, quite shut out . \ So...see, and tell | Of things invisible to mortal sight,. | IIYDER ALI. [Eitrsct from Mr. Burke's Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts.] Among the victims to... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, 50 And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out ! So much...thence Purge and disperse ; that I may see and tell 55 Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean... | |
 | Robert Rouière Pearce - 1841 - 192 pages
...means of enjoyment and support to those deprived of light and sight ; following the inj unction : — So much the rather, thou celestial light, Shine inward,...plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse 1 Foreigners, who have travelled in this country for the purpose of obtaining information on the subject... | |
 | Abiel Abbot Livermore - 1841 - 360 pages
...create us in that state. — Having dimmed the lustre of the spirit-eye, we shall pray with Milton : — "Thou celestial light, Shine inward, and the mind...plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse." 24. The Saviour had spoken of the perishable nature of 'earthly treasures as one reason why they should... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - 1842 - 386 pages
...book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom, at one entrance, quite shut out. So much...all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may sec and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. SECTION XXII. Darkness. — BYKON. I HAD a dream',... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 444 pages
...book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all height, bent down his eye, His own works,... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the hook s ray. Home, from his morning task, the swain retreats;...daw, The rook and magpie, to the grey-grown oaks tliat I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above,... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. The above poetic address, in which Milton laments the loss of his sight, is one of his happiest efforts.... | |
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