| John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful hird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return, but not to me returns Pay, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn , Or sight of vernal... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1822 - 366 pages
...blind Moeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me ; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for... | |
| Thomas Brown - 1822 - 552 pages
...involuntarily, to that single gleam of light, which reminds him only of scenes that exist no longer to him. " Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround me."} * Gray, de Princip. Cogit. lib. iv 85—96. t Paradise Lost, Book 111. v. 1—12. $... | |
| 1822 - 418 pages
...blind Ma'onides, And TiresiaS and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,...not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even and morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or (locks, or herds, or human face divine ; But... | |
| 1872 - 1200 pages
...Regained," lamenting liis blindness, exclaims, " Thus, with the year, Seasons return ; bat not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine." (" Paradise Lost," b. iii., 1. 40-44.) In the concluding stanza of this beautiful hymn, "... | |
| John Platts - 1822 - 844 pages
...or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, j . Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, ,:,i n I Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;: But cloud instead, and ever-during daik .' Surrounds him! . . . • . MI' . The reflection is a natural one. He once made it himself:... | |
| William Scott - 1823 - 396 pages
...blind Maeonides ; And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed ou thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers — as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,...face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 400 pages
...graces of all bounteous nature. — — — Thus with the year, Seasons return, but not to me return Day or the sweet approach of even or morn; Or sight...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. Paradise Lost, book iv.; Milton is supposed to have imbibed many of bis ideas, respecting landscape,... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 468 pages
...of all bounteous nature. Thus with the year, Seasons return, but not to me return Day or the aweet approach of even or morn; Or sight of vernal bloom,...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. Paradite Lost, book iv.: Milton is supposed to have imbibed many of his ideas, respecting landscape,... | |
| 1823 - 570 pages
...them. POOR BLIND JANE. " Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn. Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose. Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But clouds instead, and ever during dark Surrounds me.'' Milton» POOR Blind Jane has frequently spent... | |
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