 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
 | Mrs. Jamieson (Frances Thurtle) - Costume - 1820 - 538 pages
...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But clouds instead, and ever during dark Surronnds me, from the chearful 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 entrance... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1819 - 366 pages
...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever during dark Surround 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 raz'd, And wisdom, at one entrance,... | |
 | William Scott - Children's stories - 1820 - 422 pages
...herds, or human face divine Bat cloud instead, and ever during dark. Surround one, from the cheerful ways of men •• Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair, , Pre*ented with an universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, . ' And wisdom, at... | |
 | John Bowdler - Hymns, English - 1821 - 510 pages
...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 entrance... | |
 | John Milton - Bible - 1821 - 226 pages
...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and everduring 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 expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | Nathan Drake - 1822 - 362 pages
...herds, or human face divine ; But clouds 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 entrance... | |
 | English poetry - 1822 - 418 pages
...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 raz'd, And Wisdom, at one entrance,... | |
 | William Scott - Elocution - 1823 - 396 pages
...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround 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 raz'd, And wisdom, at one entrance,... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 620 pages
...want of money, he may exclaim with Milton, that Ever-during dark Surrounds him : from the cheerful ways of men Cut off ; and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank. Which is as much as to say, that he is totally in the dark as to... | |
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