 | 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... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...restorative and regenerative role because of his blindness. Indeed. Milton himself comes close to saying so: Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns...approach of Ev'n or Morn. Or sight of vernal bloom, or Summers Rose, Or flocks, or heards, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark... | |
 | 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 flocks, 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... | |
 | 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,...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, "a universal blank /Of Nature's works to [him] expunged and razed"?... | |
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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 summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the... 
