 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 fair, Presented with a universal blank Of...  The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 85by John Milton - 1892 - 618 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 5* So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had th' almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits Highthron'd above all height,... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 5 5 Now had th' almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above... | |
 | 1806 - 408 pages
...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light ! Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. SATAN'S SPEECH to the SUN. • (MILTON.) O THOU that, with surpassing glory crown' d, Look'st from... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the ratlier thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the Mind...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of thtngs invisible to mortal sight. 5,5 Now had th' almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...works to me cxpungM and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. • So much the rather ttiou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through...Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits [eye, High tbron'd above all height, bent down his His own works and their works at once to view :... | |
 | 1810 - 286 pages
...pathetic invocation, which occurs in the third book of Paradise Lost. " So much the rather thou, cekstial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her...see and tell ' Of things invisible to mortal sight." . . _ The same divine Poet, from whom I have just cited, calls Angels " celestial Ardours;"^ " Sons"... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...book of know ledge fair Presented with a 'universal blank Of nature's works, to me expuug'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much...through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mUt from thence Purge and disperse, tbat I may ste and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 55... | |
 | William Scott - 1820 - 422 pages
...blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, . ' And wisdom, at one entrance, quite shut out. So much the rather, thou, celestial light, Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. U.—£,'Mcgro, or the Merry Man — Mitxosr. HENCE, loathed Melancholy : Of Cerberus and blackest... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...Nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut otrt. So much the rathei, thou celestial light, Shine inward, and the mind through...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. FROM THE SAME. Book iv. 1. 32. O THOU that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole <lomifiion... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...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 Light, Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. During the time, however, which elapsed between the appearance of his Defence of the People of England... | |
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