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... Milton's Poetical Works - Page 64by John Milton - 1853 - 661 pagesFull view - About this book
| Great Britain. Council on Education - 1846 - 548 pages
...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...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Geography — Historical and Descriptive. 1. Give some account of the history of China. 2. Give an... | |
| Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1846 - 544 pages
...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...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Geography — Historical and Descriptive. 1. Give some account of the history of China. 2. Give an... | |
| Clara Lucas Balfour - Biography - 1846 - 392 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...Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things in visible to mortal sight." The " Paradise Lost" was not the only poem that Milton gave to the world... | |
| Short memoirs - Celebrities - 1847 - 170 pages
...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...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." His first wife died in the year 1602, leaving him three daughters; and he not long afterwards married... | |
| John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased ; And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...see, and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 55 Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean, where he sits High throned, above... | |
| American Institute of the City of New York - Agriculture - 1847 - 600 pages
...raz'd. So much the rather, tliou celestial light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powen Irradiate — there plant eyes; all mist from thence...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." How consoling to your minds must it be to know that Milton, without sight, was able to enjoy an intellectual... | |
| Methodist Episcopal Church - 1847 - 454 pages
...out. Нч much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powe1s Irradiate; there plant eyes, — all mist from thence...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal eight." Goethe, the great German poet, struck upon the true principle, when he resolved to write of... | |
| John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or Iraman face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring dark 45 So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 55 Now had the Almighty Father from above, V'rom the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above... | |
| Robert Aspland - 1848 - 788 pages
...music shall not be brought low," I said, and should those " that look out of windows be darkened," " celestial light Shine inward, and the mind through...plant eyes ; all mist from thence Purge and disperse !" It was difficult to resist making their acquaintance, though there was a fear of disturbing the... | |
| James Foote - 1849 - 674 pages
...divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me : from the cheerful ways of men ; Cut oif, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." How dismal the state of those blind persons who have no saving illumination, and whose eyes are never... | |
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