 And Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 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...  Œuvres complètes - Page 158by François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837Full view - About this book
 | John Bell - 1837 - 464 pages
...bemoaning his hard fate in having " wisdom at one entrance quite shut out," adds, — " So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward, and the...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... | |
 | 1838 - 586 pages
...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, and the...from above, From the pure empyrean where He sits High thron'd above all highth, bent down his eye His own works and their works at once to view : About him... | |
 | Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - 528 pages
...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, and the...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
...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, and the...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... | |
 | Tony Davies - 1997 - 170 pages
...anticlericalism to his reading of Milton. In short, the blind poet who in 1667 had asked for 'Celestial Light' to Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers...may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight (Milton 1990: 201) was himself enlisted as a secular scripture in the cause of what was already, by... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1860 - 498 pages
...blessing which our great religious poet has illustrated for his own case, in the prayer, — " So much the rather thou, Celestial Light! Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate." REMARKS OP MR. GEORGE T. CURTIS. MR. PRESIDENT, — Standing less near, in age and in association,... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - 2005 - 284 pages
...Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward, and the...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. (PL, 1n.4o-55)1 The passage turns, as the poem turns, upon God's ability to bring light out of darkness.... | |
 | Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 pages
...divine force in it" (21-22). Milton speaks from within the same tradition: So much the rather them Celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.20 The classical notion of poetic genius as exemplified and recounted by Plato, Sidney, and Milton... | |
 | James Schiffer - 2000 - 500 pages
...the mind's eye") and 1.2.185 ("In my mind's eye, Horatio"), and Paradise Lost 3: 51-53: So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward, and the...through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes. . . , (emphasis added) WORKS CITED Engle, Lars. Shakespearean Pragmatism: Market of His Time. Chicago:... | |
 | Seamus Perry - 1999 - 330 pages
...nature's works to me expunged and razed', any working eyes Milton owned just had to be in his mind: -celestial Light / Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers / Irradiate, there plant eyes' (IIL 48-9, 31-3; Milton, 363, 364); accordingly, the rare intrusions of objective reality into his... | |
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