 | Edward Hazen Parker - Medicine - 1856 - 548 pages
...all those assembled before us, and thousands of others were, as the great English poet laments— " From the cheerful ways of men cut off, And for the...knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank." I have alluded to this Asylum in order to present it in connection with the Hospitals and refuges for... | |
 | John Milton - 1750 - 674 pages
...herds, or human face divine; But cloud inftead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the chearful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefented with a univerfal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, tiling could better exprefs... | |
 | John Milton - Epic poetry, English - 1759 - 608 pages
...herds, or human face divine; But cloud inftead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me,- from the chearful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefented with a univerfal blank Of Nature's works , to me expung'd and ras'd, And wifdom,at one entrance.quite... | |
 | John Milton - 1767 - 448 pages
...fummer's rofe, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud inftead, and ever-during dark i Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefented with an univerfal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wifdom at one entrance... | |
 | 1776 - 288 pages
...at his courfes, and where, for want of money, he may ex» claim with Milton, that " Surrounds him : from the cheerful ways of men " Cut off: and, for the book of Knowledge fair, • " Prefented with an universal blank." F.ver-<!nring dark Which is as much as to fay that he is... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 316 pages
...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud inftead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the chearful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefented with a univerfal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wifdom at one entrance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 278 pages
...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud inftead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the chearful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefented with a univerfal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wifdom at one entrance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 430 pages
...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud inflead, and ever-during dark m Surrounds me,, from the chearful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prcfentcd with a univerfal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wifdo:n at one entrance... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English poetry - 1779 - 276 pages
...herds, or human face divine j. But cloud inftead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the chearful ways of men. Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefented with a univerfal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wifdom at one entrance... | |
 | George William Lemon - 1783 - 710 pages
...pale moon: and in the third book, v. 48, he laments his lofs of fight, and fays, from the chearful ways of men Cut ofF, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefented with a univerfal blank Of nature's works, tome expung'd andras'd: and yet in all thefe three... | |
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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 and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial light,... 
