 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...ever-during dark 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 and rased, And wisdom, ut one entrance, quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,... | |
 | Redmond Barry (Sir) - 1854 - 214 pages
...ever-during dark 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 and rased, And Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine inward,... | |
 | John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...gratitude of the reader for the incalculable blessing of the sense of sight. P 62 PiRADISE LOST. [BooK III. Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out ! * 50 So much the rather thou, celestial Light ! Shine inward,... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1855 - 468 pages
...ever-during dark 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 and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." 17. It has been computed that there are in this country... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...ever-during dark 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 and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward,... | |
 | Sarah Tucker - Missions - 1855 - 292 pages
...ever-during dark Surround 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 and razed ; And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather, thou celestial Light, Shine... | |
 | William Clark Larrabee - American essays - 1855 - 292 pages
...ever-during dark 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 and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." Yet with what vivid distinctness returned to him... | |
 | John Mitchell - Christian biography - 1855 - 280 pages
...ever-during dark 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 and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...ever-during dark 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 and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,... | |
 | James Hamilton - 1856 - 984 pages
...everduring dark 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 and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." But " Ho tempers the wind to the shorn lamb." Those who... | |
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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 everduring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men... 
