...rose, Or flocks or 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...

...deplorable. . -With the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me e.xpung'd and raz'd, And wisdom, at one...

...divide the line into very unequal portions : such as that after the first, and before the last semipede. thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day" or the sweet approach of even or morn. Here the caesura after the first semipede Day, stops us unexpectedly, and forcibly impresses the imagination...

...by help of that reference or revifion, which connect* fcience and retrieves learning? But of Milton, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefentcd with a univerfal blank Of nature's works to him expung'd and ras'd, And wifdom at one entrance...

...meditation for his solitary hours,— have been to him dark, — comfortless, — and disastrous ; • from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank. IN settled times, the power of the law and the dread of punish-...

...returns Day, or the fweet approach of even or morn, Or fight of vernal bloom, or fummer's rofe, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair rincfs,...

...the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with Ihe year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-dnring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge...

...dawn." ' And a little after. " Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...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...

...Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return: but not to me returns...sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal Wooro, or swnjner's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine 5 But cloud instead, and ever-during...

...a little after. " Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of cv'n or mornr Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks...divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, Surround me : from the cheerful ways of meii Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented...