 | Samuel Kirkham - 1834 - 360 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...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. SECTION XXII. Darkness. — B YB ON. I HAD a dream', which was... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 55 Now had lli' Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean... | |
 | John Landseer - 1834 - 534 pages
...excluded it from her pages—But, never mind—" So much the rather, thou celestial light" of Art— " Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers...Irradiate; there plant eyes; all mist from thence Purge and dispel." Painting, under the hands of disinterested and highminded professors, knows how to take a... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. There is nothing in all the materials of biography more applicable... | |
 | sir William Cusack Smith (2nd bart.) - 1835 - 160 pages
...that pious, beautiful, and pathetic invocation, which occurs in the third book of Paradise Lost : " So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...thence Purge and disperse ; that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." The same divine Poet, from whom I have just cited, calls angels... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...universal hlank Of nature's works, to we expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 60 So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisihle to mortal sight. 55 Now had the Almighty Father from ahove, From the pure empyrean... | |
 | 1836 - 558 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...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 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 much...thence Purge and disperse ; that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." Elsewhere he exclaims in not less pathetic strains: " If answerable... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 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...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. CXV1. THE MILLENNIUM.—Cowper'a Talk. Sweet is the harp of prophecy;... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much i In; rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean... | |
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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... 
