 | Maria Edgeworth - 1888 - 490 pages
...and life were at stake, relieved me effectually from the intolerable burden of ennui. CHAPTER XIII. "And, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with...blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased." for me, the rebellion in Ireland was soon quelled ; the nightly scouring of our county ceased ; the... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - English fiction - 1836 - 482 pages
...were at stake, relieved me effectually from the intolerable burden of ennui. CHAPTER XIII. "And, Tor the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal...blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased." UNFORTUNATELY for me, the rebellion in Ireland was soon quelled ; the nightly scouring of our county... | |
 | Edwin John Mann - Deaf - 1836 - 324 pages
...; Bat cloud instead, and ever-dnring dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off ; and the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expang'd and ras'd, And wisdom atone entrance quite shut out." PARADISE LOST, b. iiii. Should a deaf... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...troupeaux, ni la face divine de l'homme. Des nuages et des ténèBut cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...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 - 1837 - 426 pages
...rose de l'été, ni les Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and evcr-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...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,... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...rose de l'été, ni les Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and evcr-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...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,... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine j But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...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... | |
 | Antoine Martin Bureaud-Riofrey - Physical education and training - 1838 - 614 pages
...— -" Thus with the year Seasons return : but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of eve or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out:" It was, in fact, little to give shelter... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1838 - 1380 pages
...bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...blank Of nature's works to me expunged and rased." Almost literally did these beautiful lines apply to the situation of that child. The effect of the... | |
 | Bible - 1838 - 586 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light,... | |
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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 everduring dark Surrounds me, from the... 
