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" dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge failPresented 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 the rather thou, celestial Light,... "
Oeuvres - Page 310
by Jacques Delille - 1824
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The New Hampshire Journal of Medicine ..., Volume 6

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 book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank." I have alluded to this Asylum in order to present it in connection...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. According to ...

John Milton - 1767 - 376 pages
...Woom, or fummer's rofe, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud, inftead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefented with a univerfal blanu Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wifdom at one...
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The Popular Educator, Volumes 5-6; Volume 14

Geography - 1867 - 878 pages
...bloom or summer rose, Or flocks, or herds, or humau face diviue ; But cloud instead, and ever during dark 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 mo expunged and rased, And wisdom at one...
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Milton's Paradise lost, a poem. With prefatory characters of the several ...

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...
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The World, by Adam Fitz-Adam, Volume 2

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...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 316 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 off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, A/nd wisdom at one...
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A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain..: Milton. Cowley. Waller ...

1792 - 744 pages
...bloom, or fummer's rofc, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud iulicad, and evcr-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful 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 raif'd, AnJ wifdoni at o:ie...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 45 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 expung'd and ras'd, And Wisdom at one...
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The Select Works of Antony Van Leeuwenhoek: Containing His Microscopical ...

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek - Botany - 1800 - 396 pages
...or fummer's rofe, " Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; " But cloud inftead, and ever-during dark " Surrounds me, from the cheerful 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...
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The worthies of Westmorland: or, notable persons born in that ..., Volume 2

George Atkinson (serjeant-at-law.) - 1801 - 372 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 off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented, with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one...
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