 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - 562 ページ
...other man, and the enjoyments of his soul approached nearest to those which form our hopes of heaven. "Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, tome expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out: So much the... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - 92 ページ
...Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note....ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Presented with a universal blank Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Of nature's works to me... | |
 | A. Bartlett Giamatti - 1984 - 196 ページ
...Milton says: 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,...But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me . . . So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate,... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 ページ
...shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | Corinna Ruth - 2013 - 146 ページ
...light, but, ironically, he is blind. Dolefully, he grieves his loss of sight as he reflects on nature. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns...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 of Aristotle,... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1860 - 498 ページ
...genius by whose example he tells us he took courage, — " Seasons returned; but not for him returned Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine." But he went from his darkened chamber and his couch of pain to his noble work, as a strong man rejoicing... | |
 | Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 ページ
...the common motifs of Davidic naturalism, "But not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose...But cloud instead and ever-during dark / Surrounds me."33 In Prior's passage we also have the returning cloud, the darkening of nature, but in the context... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - 2005 - 284 ページ
...book 1n of Paradise Last does not permit the easy consolation that sight is well lost for insight. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns...flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book... | |
 | Michael McKeon - 2000 - 972 ページ
...beautiful lines on his blindness: Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or rhe sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal...of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Can anyone doubt... | |
 | Victoria Silver - 2001 - 432 ページ
...identical to the speaker's expression of lost sight, in the sonnet to Skinner on his blindness: not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. (LM 3.4M6) These last lines are reminiscent of the double... | |
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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... 
