 | Francis Wrangham - Bible - 1816 - 482 pages
...characteristic of the Amaurosis, or Gutta Serena, which Milton pathetically deplores, PL iii. 25, &c. ' So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion vcil'd ' &c. where he subjoins, as here, in self-consolation, • Blind Tamyris, and blind Mseonides,... | |
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 310 pages
...Agonistes. ! To light, in the former. -Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sov'reign vital lamp ; but them Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, but find no dawn." ' And a little after. " Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1820 - 342 pages
...eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to re-ascend, 20 Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel...; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, 2J Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Cease I to wander, where the Muses haunt Clear spring,... | |
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...Milton, in his address to light, lament the loss of sight. " Thee I revisit safe, Anil /ee/thy sovereign vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that...ray, and find no dawn, So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd." " And again, " Thus with the year Seasons return; but... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 398 pages
...sovereign vital lamp — but thou Revisitest not these eyea, that roll in vsin To find thy piercingray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, j Or dimfeiifuision v&lM. Yet not the more Cease 1 to wander where the Muses haunt, Clenr spring, or... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to re-ascend C0 Though hard and rare; thee I revisit safe, And feel...hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Tet not the more 2(i Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flow'ry brooks... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...Though hard and rare : Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sov'reign vital lamp ; but thou Revlsit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene bath quench'd their orbs, Or dim sufl'usion veil'd. Yet not the more Coaso I to wander, where the Muses... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...re-visit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool, though long detain'd,.. And feel thy sovereign vital lamp ; but thou Re-visit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt, Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...The dark descent; and up to re-ascend, Though hard and rare. Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp : but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find.no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...Though hard and rare. Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp — but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing...their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the more Ceasp I to wandnr where the Muses haunt, Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with love... | |
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Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. 
