 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 Surrounds me, from the...  Paradise lost a poem, with a biogr. and critical account of the author [by E ... - Page 69by John Milton - 1789Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 pages
...herds, or human face divine ; But clouds instead, and ever-during dark 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... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 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 and rased, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | Eric Donald Hirsch - 1967 - 308 pages
...herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead and ever-during dark 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 and rased, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...herds or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 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 and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | William Kerrigan - 1983 - 372 pages
...herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, 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... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...' 'paradise within thee, happier far" (XII. 587). ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, 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... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 500 pages
...help of that 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 fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to him cxpung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | Frederick Kiefer - 1996 - 394 pages
...metaphor familiar to every seventeenth-century reader: ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, 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... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - 2005 - 284 pages
...herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark 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 and razed, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
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