 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 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. THE DIVINE BENEVOLENCE. (Pope.) Has God, thou fool ! work'd solely for thy good, Thy joy, thy pastime,... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...book of 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. EVE': DREAH. Now morn her rosy steps in th' eastern clime Advancing, sow'd the earth with orient pearl,... | |
 | 1840 - 504 pages
...book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me eipunged anil rated, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...mist from thence Purge and disperse,— that I may «ее and tell Of things mrUible le mortal light. are — Wordsworth, Montgomery, Milrnan, Dale, Coleridge,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 492 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...from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above all height, bent down his eye, His own works, and their works, at once in view. About... | |
 | Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...coun'try, | to vindicate the national char,acter: | I invoAe the genius of the British Constitution. | And wisdom, at one entrance, quite shut out . \ So...see, and tell | Of things invisible to mortal sight,. | IIYDER ALI. [Eitrsct from Mr. Burke's Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's Debts.] Among the victims to... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, 50 And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out ! So much...thence Purge and disperse ; that I may see and tell 55 Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, less lovers, just at twelve, awake : Thrice rung the...downy pillow prest, Her guardian Sylph prolong'd lhat I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almichly Father from above,... | |
 | Samuel Kirkham - Elocution - 1842 - 386 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and cver-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may sec and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. SECTION XXII. Darkness. — BYKON. I HAD a dream',... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1843 - 324 pages
...numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in the shadiest cover hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. 8. 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.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me eipung'd and ros'd, urished in the twelfth cen tury ; they were two of...unfortunate passion. After a long course of calamities sec and tell Of things invisible lo mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From Ihe... | |
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And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to... 
