| 1827 - 412 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,... | |
| General reader - 1827 - 246 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...fair Presented with an universal blank, Of nature's wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather tbou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and... | |
| Bourne Hall Draper - 1828 - 126 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But clouds instead, and ever-duiing 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." These are very fine verses, Frank, and you have... | |
| John Barber - 1828 - 310 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 raz'd. And Wisdom, at one entrance, quite shut... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 304 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 ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut... | |
| William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 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 blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut... | |
| Bruce Redford - 1986 - 272 pages
...poetic inspiration but to the autistic fantasies of despair. 40. "But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and lor the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and... | |
| Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...just as Adam's lost paradise becomes a ' 'paradise within thee, happier far" (XII. 587). ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...reference or revision, which connects science and retrieves learning? But of Milton, — from the chearful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge...Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to him cxpung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out — [III , 46-30] more must be said:... | |
| Frederick Kiefer - 1996 - 394 pages
...blindness has cost him, he chooses a metaphor familiar to every seventeenth-century reader: ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut... | |
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