| 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... | |
| 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
...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, Or flocks, or herds,...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
...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, Or flocks, or herds,...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... | |
| John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...hook of knowledge fair Presented with an universal hlank Of naturc's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her pow'rs Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that 1 may see and tell... | |
| John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...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, Or flocks, or herds,...face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 4; Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1802 - 314 pages
...after. " 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,...divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, Surround me : from the cheerful ways of men Cut oft", and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented... | |
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