 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 350 pages
...of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and razed, 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. MILTOS. QUKS TIOKS. — Why does Milton mention light so... | |
 | Redmond Barry (Sir) - 1854 - 214 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...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Milton's Paradise Lost, Book III. 1-55. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain ; Blind among enemies,... | |
 | Alphonse de Lamartine - 1856 - 350 pages
...book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to be expunged and razed ; And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...see, and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." Paradise Lost, Book III. This invocation to light is one of the most beautiful passages in the work,... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...fair. Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom, ut one entrance, quite shut out. So much the rather thou,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. FROM THE SAME. BOOK IV. O thou thnt with surpassing glory crowned, Lookst from thy sole dominion like... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...universal blank Of nature's works, to mo expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite :*hut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine...may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight Paradiu Lent, III. I. EVE'S ACCOUNT OF HER CREAl'ION. That day I oft remember, when from sleep I first... | |
 | William Artman, Lansing V. Hall - 1854 - 404 pages
...flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me ! * * * * So much the rather thou, celestial Light ! Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Dr. Blacklock, also, in the following expressive lines, not only paints his own experience, but that... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out ! * 50 So much the rather thou, celestial Light ! Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 55 Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 202 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...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell 45 50 not see the light of day, we needed not to be informed that he could not discern other objects.... | |
 | A. Bartlett Giamatti - 1984 - 196 pages
...flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me . . . So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. In the raising of a visor, and all it means, we may see things invisible to mortal sight in revelations... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...his blindness cuts him off, but not without hope and not without the aid of prayer and meditation: So much the rather thou Celestial light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. [3.51-55] At once, as though in answer to that prayer, the poem makes in effect a new start, as we... | |
| |
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... 
