 | Aram Vartanian - Enlightenment - 1999 - 204 pages
...nature, which the sight can only supply: if he then be deprived of that sense, 'So much the rather may celestial light/ Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers/ Irradiate' — as our blind poet expresses it. Accordingly in the catalogue of epic (the sublimest kind of) poets,... | |
 | Peter Brown - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 572 pages
...Paradise Lost, will be the last exponent of this great tradition of philosophical self-expression: So much the rather, Thou Celestial Light, Shine inward...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.1 Yet such prayers were usually regarded as part of a preliminary stage in the lifting of the... | |
 | Kate Flint - Art - 2000 - 450 pages
...being cut off 'from the cheerful ways of men', Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works ... So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward,...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.42 Andrew Marvell took up the theme of compensation for blindness in 'On Paradise Lost', prefixed... | |
 | Literature - 1967 - 634 pages
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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... 
