| John Milton - 1767 - 448 pages
...fummer's rofe, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud inftead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair 'Prefented with an univerfal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wifdom at one entrance... | |
| James Hurdis - English poetry - 1819 - 168 pages
...nature, and the blissful scenes Of Paradise, though not to him 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. Sweet bard, that bears us softly now, and, smooth As that unwrinkled flood that slowly winds... | |
| John Philips - Cider - 1791 - 214 pages
...or fummer's rofe, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud inftead, and ever-duringdark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefented with a univerfal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wifdom at one entrance... | |
| John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...note. Thus with the year 43 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,...and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut... | |
| Robert Anderson - English poetry - 1795 - 740 pages
...rummer's rofe, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; Bat cloud iuftead, and cver-during dirk Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of Knowledge fair 1'refented with a unrverfal blank Of Nature's works to me expung'd and raif 'd, And wifdom at one entrance... | |
| John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...note. Thus with the year 40 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,...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 Presented... | |
| Thomas Sheridan - Elocution - 1796 - 292 pages
...fight of vernal bloom, or fummer's rofe. Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud inflead, and ever-during dark, Surrounds me, from the cheerful...of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefented with a univerfal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wifdom at one entrance... | |
| Colin Macfarquhar, George Gleig - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1797 - 430 pages
...bloom, or fummer's rofe, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud iufteadj and ever during dark, Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Prefented with a univerfal blank, Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wildom at one entrance... | |
| Books - 1799 - 618 pages
...could mourn, with so much apparent feeling, 'his insensibility of " 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 ?" could the ^xijg-.ff-nis' iyy,i: of Homer, to use the words of Dr.Darwfn — the long shadow... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...return; hut not to me returns D ^y, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight iif vernal hloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-durmg dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut oft, and for the hook of knowledge... | |
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