| 1806 - 408 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herdsfor human face divine; But clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light ! Shine... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 45 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 and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 342 pages
...rose, Or flocks or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, Surround me : from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for...universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd. And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." ' Again in Samson Agonistes. " But chief of all,... | |
| David Phineas Adams, William Emerson, Samuel Cooper Thacher - 1808 - 708 pages
...row. Or nock«, or herd*, or human face divine ; But clouds Instead, and ever during lUrk Surround« me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for...Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to roe cxpung'd and ras'd. And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou. cclestul... | |
| Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - 1808 - 710 pages
...divine ; But clouds instead, and ever during dark Surround^ me, from the cheerful wavi of men Ctft off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to me expun^'d and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celcstlil light.... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - 1808 - 310 pages
...divine; J5ut cloud ins ead, and ever-during dark, Surround me : from the cheerful ways of men Cut oiF, and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to me expungM and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut uut.° ' Again in Samson Agoniste*. « But... | |
| Jeremiah Joyce - 1809 - 290 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me e.xpung'd and raz'd, And wisdom, at one entrance, quite shut out. Tutor. Yet his situation was rendered comfortable... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 494 pages
...fummer's rofe, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair rincfs, Jed with cheerful and confident thoughts, to embark in « troubled fea of noifcs, &c." TODD.... | |
| Maria Edgeworth - 1809 - 442 pages
...life were at stake, relieved me effectually from the intolerable burden of ennui. CHAPTER XIII. *' And, for the book of knowledge fair, " Presented with an universal blank " Of Nature's works, to me expnnged and rased." Unfortunately for me, the rebellion in Ireland was soon quelled ; the nightly... | |
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