 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...  Of optics, magnetism, electricity and galvanism - Page 28by Jeremiah Joyce - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 422 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 returns...of men Cut off, and for the 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... | |
 | Joseph Ivimey - 1833 - 430 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 returns...ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge failPresented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one... | |
 | Sir William Lawrence - 1833 - 766 pages
...summer's rose, Or Bocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and erer-during dark Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | James Flamank - 1833 - 414 pages
...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But clouds instead, and ever-during dark, Surround me ; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 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 returns...of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...oedipal father and the narcissistic ego whose symbol was once the paralysis of Comus. ILLUMINATION Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns...of men Cut off, and for the 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... | |
 | Bruce Redford - 1986 - 272 pages
...turns inward, not to the radiance of poetic inspiration but to the autistic fantasies of despair. 40. "But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and lor the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...inward now, just as Adam's lost paradise becomes a ' 'paradise within thee, happier far" (XII. 587). ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways...of men Cut off, and for the 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... | |
 | Robert Thomas Fallon - 2010 - 309 pages
...public servants, one whom they had engaged to act "especially in foreign affairs," was all but blind. But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off. (PL 3:45-47) Mylius's account of his encounters with Milton is frustratingly sketchy about the poet's... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...reference or revision, which connects science and retrieves learning? But of Milton, — from the chearful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to him cxpung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
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