 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 562 pages
...other man, and the enjoyments of his soul approached nearest to those which form our hopes of heaven. "Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...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... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tnnes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns...herds, or human face divine, But cloud instead, and ever-dnring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of meo Cut off, and for the book of knowledge... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...to which they belong : — " Seasons return, yet not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of eve or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and fur the book of knowledge fair Presented with... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...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 summer's rose,...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... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...ILLUMINATION 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 Summer's Rose,...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. Bartlett Giamatti - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 196 pages
...Milton says: 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 Summer's Rose,...face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me . . . So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through all her... | |
 | Corinna Ruth - Study Aids - 2013 - 146 pages
...light, but, ironically, he is blind. Dolefully, he grieves his loss of sight as he reflects on nature. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns...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,... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...though "with the year / Seasons return," not to the speaker returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...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... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1860 - 498 pages
...genius by whose example he tells us he took courage, — " Seasons returned; but not for him returned Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine." But he went from his darkened chamber and his couch of pain to his noble work, as a strong man rejoicing... | |
 | Blanford Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 282 pages
...the common motifs of Davidic naturalism, "But not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose...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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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... 
