 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool * * * And feel thy sovran, vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs. Or dim suffusion veil'd Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...middle darkness borne, With other notes than to the Orphean lyre, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down The dark...Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray,... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...With other notes than to th' Orphean lyre I sung of Chaos and eternal Night; Taught by the Heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to re-ascend,...Though hard and rare, thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sov'reign vita) lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray,... | |
 | Robert Means - Bible - 1836 - 622 pages
...lamentation over his blindness. " Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firet born ! bat t !.. ni Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs Or dim suffusion veiled. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...With other notes then to th' Orphean Lyre I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare ... [3.1,13-21] From this standpoint the first two books of Milton's poem come to represent an experience... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...25-45). He revisits a lamp that may illuminate him, but does not enable him to see - "thou / Revist'st not these eyes, that roll in vain /To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" (III. 22-24). Others have concluded that a writer's initial scopophilia, his observation of both real... | |
 | William Malin Porter - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 234 pages
...own labors as a descent: With other notes than to the Orphean lyre I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down The dark...descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare. l3.i7-2t) The Miltonic descent is an Orphean, as well as an Aenean, move: the poet, in other words,... | |
 | American poetry - 1993 - 412 pages
...thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - Poetry - 1994 - 290 pages
...The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that...in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn. 65 In the second place, the inset passage helps Hunt to establish his credentials as a romantic poet... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...first two books, in which With other notes than to th'Orphean lyre I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the Heavenly Muse to venture down The dark...descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare. The Orphic hymns, some of which date back to the fifth century BC, tell of the birth and origins of... | |
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Taught by the heavenly muse to venture down The dark descent and up to re-ascend, Though hard and rare ; thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find... 
