| 1840 - 298 sider
...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...universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased." What an attestation to the medicinal value of intellectual labour, that it has so often cheered... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 492 sider
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old ; Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out ! So much the rather thou, celestial... | |
| John Aikin - 1841 - 840 sider
...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, expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light,... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 sider
...or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; 4!> But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds...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 the rather thou, celestial... | |
| 1842 - 600 sider
...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for...universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." The words died away — there was a sudden start... | |
| 1843 - 350 sider
...my song, And let me never, — never stray from thee. Thomson. BEAUTIES OF NATURE LOST TO THE BLIND. THUS with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom, at one entrance, quite shut out. Milton. CONSTANCY AMID GENERAL DEFECTIONS SERVANT... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 444 sider
...nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine inward,... | |
| 1843 - 174 sider
...strains, " Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of eve or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose,...universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom, at one entrance, quite shut out." There is, however, a more fearful privation still... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 562 sider
...other man, and the enjoyments of his soul approached nearest to those which form our hopes of heaven. "Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, tome expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out: So much the rather thou, celestial... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 548 sider
...other man, and the enjoyments of his soul approached nearest to those which form our hopes of heaven. "Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair v Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, tome expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
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