 So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.  Paradise lost, a poem - Page 50by John Milton - 1823Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...universal hlank Of nature's works, to we expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 60 So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisihle to mortal sight. 55 Now had the Almighty Father from ahove, From the pure empyrean where... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 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. CXV1. THE MILLENNIUM.—Cowper'a Talk. Sweet is the harp of prophecy; too sweet Not to be wronged by... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 pages
...book of knowledge fair 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...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." Elsewhere he exclaims in not less pathetic strains: " If answerable style I can obtain Of my celestial... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...Surrounds 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 wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much i In; rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 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. DESCRIPTION OF A BLIND M AN.— Wordsworth. Soul-cheering Light, most bountiful of things ! Guide of... | |
 | John Bell - 1837 - 464 pages
...increate," and after bemoaning his hard fate in having " wisdom at one entrance quite shut out," adds, — " So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." We should do injustice to the views advanced, were we to give but a few extracts, and then stop short... | |
 | Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - 528 pages
...Vide BRUCE. — FJ p. 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...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." 1831, 12mo. 7th. — A PARAPHRASE UPON CHAP. iV. 2 TIMOTHY. I charge thee, therefore, to preach the... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. GO So much the rather thou celestial light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 55 Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above... | |
 | 1839 - 366 pages
...Book of Knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out ; So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." Having offered these celebrated examples of blind men eloquent, whom we must submit as the representatives... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...Surrounds ine, 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...rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. [TOHLINSON'S Natural Philoiophy.] are diven opinions, they may be all false; there can Lvut one true:... | |
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