| John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...hook of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, ld : While the full-udder'd mother lows around' The...daw, The rook and magpie, to the grey-grown oaks tliat I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above,... | |
| Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 562 pages
...book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, tome expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out: So much...may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight !" That is the sheerest infatuation in the world, which considers poetry as a sort of intellectual... | |
| English poetry - 1844 - 92 pages
...universal blank Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Of nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell SATAN IN PARADISE. In bower and field he sought, where any tuft Of grove or garden-plot more pleasant... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom3 at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. SATAN'S MEETING WITH URIEL IN THE sira.4 HE soon Saw within ken a glorious angel stand, The same whom... | |
| Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in the shadiest cover hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. 6. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. The above poetic address, in which Milton laments the loss of his sight, is one of his happiest efforts.... | |
| Great Britain. Council on Education - 1846 - 548 pages
...knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works — to me expunged and rased — And wisdom, at one entrance quite shut out. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Geography — Historical and Descriptive. 1. Give some account of the history of China. 2. Give an... | |
| Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1846 - 544 pages
...knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank » Of Nature's works — to me expunged and rased — And wisdom, at one entrance quite shut out. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Geography — Historical and Descriptive. 1. Give some account of the history of China. 2. Give an... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - Biography - 1846 - 392 pages
...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 out: So much...Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things in visible to mortal sight." The " Paradise Lost" was not the only poem that Milton gave to the world... | |
| Short memoirs - Celebrities - 1847 - 170 pages
...book of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." His first wife died in the year 1602, leaving him three daughters; and he not long afterwards married... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased ; And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...see, and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 55 Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean, where he sits High throned, above... | |
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