 Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns 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...  Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper - Page 79by William Hayley - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Karen L. Edwards - 2005 - 284 pages
...sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou celestial Light... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2000 - 972 pages
...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,...Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Can anyone doubt that the exclusion... | |
 | Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 pages
...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...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou celestial... | |
 | Susan Stewart - 2002 - 460 pages
...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...of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank. We cannot anticipate where the caesura will fall in these pentameter lines and so are ourselves going... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...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...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou celestial... | |
 | Martha Stoddard Holmes - 2010 - 245 pages
...blindness, and always in a tone of anguish and despondency characteristic of recent misfortune: — "... from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the...Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." It often depends on the surgeon whether... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...Summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off,...Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So... | |
 | Douglas Trevor - 2004 - 288 pages
...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...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. (3.40-50) If Milton is sequestered in... | |
 | Hannibal Hamlin - 2004 - 310 pages
...at the beginning of the psalm. "August 8, 1653." 95 Paradise Lost, 3.45-47, in Complete Poems, 259. But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds...Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.96 In Psalm... | |
 | Robert E. Belknap - 2004 - 284 pages
...then, as the handicap serves instead to identify the poet more closely with the redeemed: But clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the...Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd. [Paradise Lost, 3-45-49] The challenge to Melville... | |
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