 | William Scott - 1823 - 396 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. So much the rather, thou, celestial light, Shine... | |
 | 1823 - 440 pages
...drudging at his courses, and where, for want of money, he may exclaim with Milton, that — Ever-during dark Surrounds me : from the cheerful ways of men...knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank. r. L. iii. 45. Which is as much as to say that he is totally in the dark as to what is doing abroad,... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1823 - 424 pages
...courses, and where, for want of money, he may exclaim with Milton, that -Ever-during dark Surrounds him : from the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and for the...knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank. Which is as much as to say, that he is totally in the dark as to what is doing abroad, and that while... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways .of men...off, and for' the book of knowledge fair Presented whh a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - 1823 - 620 pages
...courses, and where, for want of money, he may exclaim with Milton, that Ever-during dark Surrounds him : from the cheerful ways of men Cut off ; and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank. Which is as much as to say, that he is totally in the dark as to what is doing abroad,... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 924 pages
...divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, Surround me : from the cheerful ways of men Cut offi and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. ib. 41. " Again in Samson Agonistes.... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...drudging at his courses, and where, for want of money, he may exclaim with Milton, that — Ever-during dark Surrounds me : from the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and, for the book of knowledge feir, Presented with an universal blank. 1. i. iii. 45. Which is as much as to say that he is totally... | |
 | British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human voice 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 expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 3. O dark, dark, dark,... | |
 | Andrew Reid (of London.) - 1824 - 274 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...and for the 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1824 - 1062 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during st ! what tears the river a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expung'd and rais'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut... | |
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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 everduring dark Surrounds me, from the... 
