 | John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and,- for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged...eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that T may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From... | |
 | Society for promoting Christian knowledge - 1852 - 652 pages
...of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to mo expung'd and ras'rl, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." His first wife died in the year 1662, leaving him three daughters; ami he not long afterwards married... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 330 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...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. is Now had the Almighty Father fr^m above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1852 - 458 pages
...book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." Gloriously was this last aspiration fulfilled ! It has been finely said, Milton is never more himself... | |
 | Thomas Carter - 1852 - 190 pages
...his want of natural or bodily sight, together with the privations consequent thereon, he adds : — " So much the rather thou. Celestial Light, Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight" If the reader will bear with me — which I hope he will — I must give yet another instance of a... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - 1852 - 570 pages
...to have been a native of Ma3onia (the repetition of the conjnnction " or." So much the rather them, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 55 Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean1 where He sits High-throned above... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - 1853 - 360 pages
...Surrounds me. From the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." The " Paradise Lost" was not the only poem that Milton gave to the world after his blindness. " Paradise... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of tlu'ngs invisible to mortal sight. MILTON. ftotoers. THE north-east spends his rage ; he now shut up... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged...eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that T may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. MILTON. FROM COMUS. CAN any mortal mixture of earth's mould Breathe such divine enchanting ravishment... | |
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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... 
