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; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark... The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 54by John Milton - 1857 - 570 pagesFull view - About this book
| Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 430 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,...ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge failPresented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one... | |
| Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 320 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,...ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of m»n Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank * Richardson, in... | |
| 1834 - 264 pages
...beautifully and pathetically described in the person of Milton, in his sublime poem of Paradise Lost : — " Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's work to me expunged and raised, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." The founders... | |
| Christian life - 1847 - 600 pages
...sources of pleasure which sight can impart to others, but of which his blindness had deprived him. " Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns...and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And knowledge at one entrance quite... | |
| Maria Hack - Eye - 1834 - 256 pages
...veiTd— " " 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,...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 quite shut out." organ... | |
| Benjamin Godwin - Apologetics - 1834 - 314 pages
...feelingly has the first of English poets, in his address to light, adverted to his own loss of sight. " Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns...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... | |
| Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note....me returns . . . Day, or the sweet approach of even and morn; Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of eve or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...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 quite shut... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...There feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note....rose, Or flocks, or 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... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and iu shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus...morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, ténèbres extérieures et moyennes, j'ai chanté, avec des accords differens de ceux de la lyre d'Orphée... | |
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