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... Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 60by John Milton - 1820 - 305 pagesFull view - About this book
| Benjamin Godwin - 1834 - 314 pages
...sight. " 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 clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surround me ! From the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and for the... | |
| Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - 1835 - 526 pages
...rappellerait à jamais le souvenir de l'homme auquel ils échappent, si se • Seasons return, but not me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n, or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose Or stocks, or herds, or humane face divine . But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me (Troisième... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...return ; hut not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal hloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face...from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the hook of knowledge fair his Hymn* with honor in the heginning of his 8th hook of Laws, and towards the... | |
| Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...he is touched and enlightened from beyond himself. Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn,...Summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine . . . So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine inward. (3.40-44,51-52) Eve's "solemn Bird"... | |
| 1993 - 412 pages
...and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds... | |
| Angela Esterhammer - 1994 - 276 pages
...rehearsal of the original creative events even as he denies their visible reality for him: not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn,...Summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine (PL 3.41-4) The difference between 'holy Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born' (named in the... | |
| Corinna Ruth - 2013 - 146 pages
...nature. 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 herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead. P. L, III, 40-45 He has been shunned from "the book of knowledge fair." Since the days of Aristotle,... | |
| André Verbart - 1995 - 322 pages
...on Milton's blindness, as in the words following: Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose, Or flocks, or heards, or human face divine; (III.40-44) The transitions of Milton's passage... | |
| Mark L. Greenberg - 1996 - 224 pages
...possibility that the apostrophes are vain, that though "with the year / Seasons return," not to the speaker returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, "a universal blank /Of Nature's works to [him] expunged and razed"? Only Autumn responds and appears... | |
| Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 pages
...outward sight. The passage in Milton incorporates the common motifs of Davidic naturalism, "But not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...face divine; / But cloud instead and ever-during dark / Surrounds me."33 In Prior's passage we also have the returning cloud, the darkening of nature, but... | |
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