 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, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the...  Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper - Page 79by William Hayley - 1810Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1838 - 1380 pages
...eve 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...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and rased." Almost literally did these beautiful lines apply to the situation of that child.... | |
 | Antoine Martin Bureaud-Riofrey - 1838 - 614 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out:" It was, in fact, little to give shelter to the indigent... | |
 | George Godwin - 1838 - 368 pages
...even 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...and for the 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... | |
 | James Wilson - 1838 - 372 pages
...ofev'n or mom, 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...and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank." BIRMINGHAM : PRINTED BT JW SHOWELL, 48, NEW-STREET, AND SOLD ONLY BT THE AUTHOR.... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 518 pages
...purling. Bentt. MS. 35 Thamyris] Stat. Theb. iv. 183. ' Mutos Thamyris damnatus in annos.' VOL. I. 11 Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off,...ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. so So much the rather thou celestial light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate;... | |
 | 1839 - 532 pages
...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-duriug dark Surrounds ine, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and for the...Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. [TOHLINSON'S Natural Philoiophy.] are... | |
 | 1840 - 372 pages
...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...Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light,... | |
 | 1840 - 504 pages
...or mom, 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...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me eipunged anil rated, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial... | |
 | Ebenezer Bailey - 1840 - 426 pages
...even 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...fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's worksj to me expunged and razed, And wisdom, at one entrance, quite shut out. So much the rather thou,... | |
 | 1840 - 298 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased." What an attestation to the medicinal value of intellectual labour, that it has... | |
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