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" 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... "
The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ... - Page 165
by John Milton - 1824
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The Christian Advocate, Volume 12

1834 - 546 pages
...with which it seems to have overwhelmed him ! - Thus with the year ! Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks or herds, or human fnce divine; But clouds instead, and ever-during dark, Surround me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut...
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An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private Learners

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,...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...
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Œuvres de Mirabeau: Des lettres de cachet et des prisons d'État

Honoré-Gabriel de Riqueti comte de Mirabeau - 1835 - 526 pages
...rappellerait à jamais le souvenir de l'homme auquel ils échappent, si se • Seasons return, but not me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n, or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose Or stocks, or herds, or humane face divine . But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me (Troisième...
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Lectures on the Atheistic Controversy: Delivered in the Months of February ...

Benjamin Godwin - Apologetics - 1834 - 314 pages
...sight. " 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 clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surround me ! From the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and for the...
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Creating States: Studies in the Performative Language of John Milton and ...

Angela Esterhammer - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 276 pages
...rehearsal of the original creative events even as he denies their visible reality for him: not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn,...Summer's Rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine (PL 3.41-4) The difference between 'holy Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born' (named in the...
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Paradise Lost (MAXNotes Literature Guides)

Corinna Ruth - Study Aids - 2013 - 146 pages
...nature. 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 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,...
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Fellowship in Paradise Lost: Vergil, Milton, Wordsworth, Volume 97

André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...on Milton's blindness, as in the words following: 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 Summers Rose, Or flocks, or heards, or human face divine; (III.40-44) The transitions of Milton's passage...
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Speak Silence: Rhetoric and Culture in Blake's Poetical Sketches

Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...possibility that the apostrophes are vain, that though "with the year / Seasons return," not to the speaker returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...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...
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The Triumph of Augustan Poetics: English Literary Culture from Butler to Johnson

Blanford Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 282 pages
...outward sight. The passage in Milton incorporates the common motifs of Davidic naturalism, "But not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...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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Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Volume 4

Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1860 - 498 pages
...he took courage, — " Seasons returned; but not for him returned 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 he went from his darkened chamber and his couch of pain to his noble work, as a strong man rejoicing...
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