 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - 786 pagina’s
...and blind Maxmides,1 And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and fir the book of knowledge fair, Presented with n universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pagina’s
...Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,8 and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note....Surrounds me ; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank9 Athenian then at Paris, for him... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 394 pagina’s
...voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tones her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return;...dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut of? and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1857 - 490 pagina’s
...virtue is brighter still. HENRY KOUERS. CLXIV. — FROM MILTON'S "PARADISE LOST." 1. ON His BLINDNESS. THUS with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1857 - 330 pagina’s
...blind seems dreary and dismal enough — quite enough to justify the pathetic recital of Milton : • " Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged... | |
 | John Milton - 1857 - 470 pagina’s
...as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus \\ith the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day,...dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut ofl, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank 0f nature's works, to me cxpung'd... | |
 | Beautiful poetry - 1858 - 350 pagina’s
...and Blind Moeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pagina’s
...and blind Msponides,1 And Tiresias, and PMneus, prophets old: Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings...herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-curing dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut oS, and for the book of knowledge... | |
 | William Henry Milburn - 1858 - 314 pagina’s
...blind <eems dreary and dismal enough—quite enough to •justify the pathetic recital of Milton: • " Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged... | |
 | Thomas Buckley Smith - 1858 - 310 pagina’s
...hath quenched the orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. Thus with the year Seasons return ; hut not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged... | |
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Tunes her nocturnal note: 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... 
