 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 ever-during dark Surrounds me...  Paradiso perduto di Milton - Page 132by John Milton - 1852Full view - About this book
 | George W. Burnap - Women - 1841 - 288 pages
...lamented. "Thus with the year 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, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark." As the love of nature is universal, so the pictures of it, which... | |
 | 1842 - 488 pages
...: ' Thus, with the year, Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of e'en or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me." It is said, in an article on blindness, in the... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown. Blind Thamyris, and blind Maxmides, And Tiresias, and Phineus, here under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks, As ragged...goddess fair and free, In Heaven yclep'd Euphrosyne, cloud instead, and evcr-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and lor the... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1843 - 592 pages
...were I equall'd with them in renown, Blind Thamyris and blind Maonides , And Tiresias and Phincus , prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...rose , Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead , and cver-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful nays of men Cut off, and for the... | |
 | Eric Donald Hirsch - Philosophy - 1967 - 308 pages
...might not have included near the beginning of Book III the famous, beautiful lines on his blindness: Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns...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 off, and, for the... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...nocturnal note. Thus with the year 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 or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...ILLUMINATION Thus with the Year 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, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the... | |
 | A. Bartlett Giamatti - Literary Criticism - 1984 - 196 pages
...Milton says: Thus with the year 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, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me . . . So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine... | |
 | Corinna Ruth - Study Aids - 2013 - 146 pages
...light, but, ironically, he is blind. Dolefully, he grieves his loss of sight as he reflects on nature. Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead. P. L, III, 40-45 He has been shunned from "the book of knowledge fair." Since the days... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...though "with the year / Seasons return," not to the speaker 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; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, "a universal blank /Of Nature's works to [him] expunged and razed"?... | |
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