 So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her Irradiate ; there plant eyes ; all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. powers  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 45by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Methodist Episcopal Church - 1847 - 454 pages
...blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one enlranr-e quite shut out. Уо 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... | |
 | Charles Alexander Lockhart Robertson - 1847 - 58 pages
...feel assured, would my audience be constrained to join in that beautiful aspiration of Milton's,— " So MUCH THE RATHER, thou celestial light, Shine inward, and the mind thro' all her power irradiate." * " In addition to life, the one universal soul, which by virtue of... | |
 | John Milton - 1848 - 474 pages
...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, 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 i irn PARADISE LOST—BOOK III. Purge and... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...ras'd, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. ADAM DESCRIBES HIS FIRST IMPRESSIONS ON RECEIVING LIFE. " For man to tell how human life began Is hard;... | |
 | John S. Tanner - Anxiety in literature - 1992 - 226 pages
...as they are when the narrator implores God to purge his sight, as Michael purges Adam's vision: "... there plant eyes, all mist from thence / Purge and...see and tell / Of things invisible to mortal sight" (3.53-55), or when he pleads "What in me is dark, / Illumine, what is low raise and support" (1.22-23).... | |
 | Alla Efimova, Lev Manovich - Art - 1993 - 268 pages
...To find thy piercin ray, and find no dawn; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me ... So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all thee powers Irradiate; there plant eyes; all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...out. 50 So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate; there plant eyes; all mist from thence...may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight 317 Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above... | |
 | Valeria Finucci, Regina Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 281 pages
...masochism, it is only to reject those formulas. His sight depends upon the light looking inward—"So much the rather thou Celestial Light / Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers / Irradiate"—to enable him to see outward—"There plant eyes, all mist from thence / Purge... | |
 | John M. Steadman - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 234 pages
...With "wisdom at one entrance quite shut out," there is all the greater need for divine illumination: 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... | |
 | Jennifer Ann Wagner, Jennifer A. Wagner-Lawlor - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 268 pages
...Holy Light to Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all most from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. (Lines 52-55) Milton regains "vision," asserting here and in the sonnet on his blindness that losing... | |
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