 | John Aikin - 1843 - Počet stránok 826
...book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me eipung'd and ros'd, urished in the twelfth cen tury ; they were two of...unfortunate passion. After a long course of calamities sec and tell Of things invisible lo mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From Ihe... | |
 | John Aikin - 1843 - Počet stránok 830
...hook of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, ld : While the full-udder'd mother lows around' The...daw, The rook and magpie, to the grey-grown oaks tliat I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1844 - Počet stránok 562
...Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, tome expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite...may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight !" That is the sheerest infatuation in the world, which considers poetry as a sort of intellectual... | |
 | English poetry - 1844 - Počet stránok 92
...the cheerful ways of men Presented with a universal blank Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Of nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom...thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell SATAN IN PARADISE. In bower and field he sought, where any tuft Of grove or garden-plot more pleasant... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - Počet stránok 490
...knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom3 at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. SATAN'S MEETING WITH URIEL IN THE sira.4 HE soon Saw within ken a glorious angel stand, The same whom... | |
 | Great Britain. Committee on Education - 1846 - Počet stránok 544
...returns Hay, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, But cloud instead, and ever during dark Surround me — from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, —...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. Council on Education - 1846 - Počet stránok 548
...returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, But cloud instead, and ever during dark Surround me — from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, —...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 - 1846 - Počet stránok 392
...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 expunged...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... | |
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - 1846 - Počet stránok 340
...book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and razed ; And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. The above poetic address, in which Milton laments the loss of his sight, is one of his happiest efforts.... | |
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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 cheerful... 
