 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old ; Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...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 expung'd... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 830 pages
...and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary ound some mouldering tower pale ivy creeps, and for the hook of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expung'd... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - 826 pages
...and blind Maxmides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary ged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell....goddess fair and free, In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, evcr-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and lor the book of knowledge... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...and blind Maonides , And Tiresias and Phincus , prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings...herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead , and cver-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful nays of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1843 - 324 pages
...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in the shadiest cover hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. 8. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...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... | |
 | 1843 - 350 pages
...my song, And let me never, — never stray from thee. Thomson. BEAUTIES OF NATURE LOST TO THE BLIND. THUS with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...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... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...and blind Meeonides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old; Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings...ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Presented with a universal blank Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Of nature's works to me... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 562 pages
...other man, and the enjoyments of his soul approached nearest to those which form our hopes of heaven. "Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...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, tome expunged... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tnnes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return,...herds, or human face divine, But cloud instead, and ever-dnring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of meo Cut off, and for the book of knowledge... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...and blind Maeonides,1 And Tiresias,2 and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...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... | |
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Tunes her nocturnal note: 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... 
