 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 Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to...  Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 180by John Milton - 1750Full view - About this book
 | Samuel Niles Sweet - Elocution - 1846 - 340 pages
...expunged and razed ; 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 Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. The... | |
 | Great Britain. Council on Education - 1846 - 548 pages
...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 Purge and disperse ; that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.... | |
 | Clara Lucas Balfour - Biography - 1846 - 392 pages
...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 Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things in visible to mortal sight."... | |
 | Leslie Moore - Poetry - 1990 - 256 pages
...unregarded" (WJR, 9). Later he quotes from the "Invocation" to Book 3 — "So much the rather thou Celestial Light / Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers / Irradiate, there plant eyes" (PL 3.51-53) — to support his belief that "a painter's own mind should have grace, and greatness;... | |
 | Publius Papinius Statius - Literary Collections - 1991 - 288 pages
...Summers. for example, suggests that Milton's prayer for inner light: So much the rather thou celestial light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers irradiate, there plant eyes. (PL 3. 51 ff.) is inspired by these words of Amphiaraus: nhruit ora deus totamquc in pectora lucem... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...mee expung'd and ras'd, And wisdome 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 Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 試奏看夜曲。... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Art - 1993 - 336 pages
...religious, scientific, political, ethical, and artistic voices, and in them the Light that Milton entreats: "Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers/ Irradiate, there plant eyes" (3.52-53). Eve and Adam, engaged in love, the care of the earth and its creatures, and the pursuit... | |
 | André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...me expung'd and ras'd. And wisdome at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou Celestial light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plam eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to... | |
 | Tony Davies - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 170 pages
...anticlericalism to his reading of Milton. In short, the blind poet who in 1667 had asked for 'Celestial Light' to 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 Of things invisible to mortal sight (Milton... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 284 pages
...me expunged and razed, 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 Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. (PL,... | |
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