 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...  The Southern Quarterly Review - Page 212edited by - 1844Full view - About this book
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 400 pages
...graces of all bounteous nature. — — — Thus with the year, Seasons return, but not to me return Day or the sweet approach of even or morn; Or sight...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. Paradise Lost, book iv.; Milton is supposed to have imbibed many of bis ideas, respecting landscape,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 468 pages
...of all bounteous nature. Thus with the year, Seasons return, but not to me return Day or the aweet approach of even or morn; Or sight of vernal bloom,...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. Paradite Lost, book iv.: Milton is supposed to have imbibed many of his ideas, respecting landscape,... | |
 | English essays - 1823 - 440 pages
...years, drudging at his courses, and where, for want of money, he may exclaim with Milton, that — Ever-during dark Surrounds me : from the cheerful...men Cut off; and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank. r. L. iii. 45. Which is as much as to say that he is totally in... | |
 | 1823 - 570 pages
...them. POOR BLIND JANE. " 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. Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But clouds instead, and ever during dark Surrounds me.'' Milton» POOR Blind Jane has frequently spent... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 788 pages
...'years, drudging at his courses, and where, for want of money, he may exclaim with Milton, that — Ever-during dark Surrounds me : from the cheerful...ways of men Cut off; and, for the book of knowledge feir, Presented with an universal blank. 1. i. iii. 45. Which is as much as to say that he is totally... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1860 - 498 pages
...genius by whose example he tells us he took courage, — " Seasons returned; but not for him returned Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine." But he went from his darkened chamber and his couch of pain to his noble work, as a strong man rejoicing... | |
 | Blanford Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 282 pages
...the common motifs of Davidic naturalism, "But not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose...But cloud instead and ever-during dark / Surrounds me."33 In Prior's passage we also have the returning cloud, the darkening of nature, but in the context... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 284 pages
...book 1n of Paradise Last does not permit the easy consolation that sight is well lost for insight. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns...flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book... | |
 | Wolfgang Capito, William Roy - Humor - 1999 - 334 pages
...agony associated with his own blindness - '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' (m 41-6) - must have held some consolation for him - indeed may have been seen as providential,... | |
 | Michael McKeon - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 972 pages
...beautiful lines on his blindness: Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or rhe sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal...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... | |
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