 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 314 pages
...composed, which would sometimeB flow with great ease." Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that J may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." Book iii. 1 — 55 ON PROVIDENCE. " The world... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1834 - 360 pages
...Thus with the year. Seasons return, but not to me returns . . . Day, or the sweet approach of even and morn; Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. SECTION XXII. Darkness. — B YB ON. I HAD a dream', which was not all a dream'. The bright sun was... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, 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 lli' Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High thrmi'd above... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 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...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. There is nothing in all the materials of biography more applicable to an author's character than this... | |
 | sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - Metaphysics - 1835 - 160 pages
...that pious, beautiful, and pathetic invocation, which occurs in the third book of Paradise Lost : " So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." The same divine Poet, from whom I have just cited, calls angels " celestial Ardours ;"-)" Sons" and... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...universal hlank Of nature's works, to we expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 60 So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisihle to mortal sight. 55 Now had the Almighty Father from ahove, From the pure empyrean where... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful rays of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. CXV1. THE MILLENNIUM.—Cowper'a Talk. Sweet is the harp of prophecy; too sweet Not to be wronged by... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much i In; rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the...pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all highth, bent down his eye, His own works and their works at once to view. About him all the sanctities... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...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. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." Elsewhere he exclaims in not less pathetic strains: " If answerable style I can obtain Of my celestial... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...with the year Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine j But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. DESCRIPTION OF A BLIND M AN.— Wordsworth. Soul-cheering Light, most bountiful of things ! Guide of... | |
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