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, from the... Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 179by John Milton - 1750Full view - About this book
| Celia Florén - 1992 - 624 pages
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| John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...help of that reference or revision, which connects science and retrieves learning? But of Milton, — from the chearful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to him cxpung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
| Frederick Kiefer - Books and reading - 1996 - 394 pages
...metaphor familiar to every seventeenth-century reader: ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented with a Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
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