...clouds instead, and ever during Dark surrounds him. From the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and from the book of Knowledge fair, presented with A universal blank of nature's "Works, to him expunged and 'rased." It was probably the extraordinary attainments of those eminent blind men...

...Irradiate : there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell 45. But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds...universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and razed, 55. Of things invisible to mortal sight. MM.T0N. QUESTIONS. — Why docs Milton mention light...

...summer's rose, Or flocks or herds or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for...universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out ! " 3. — [FROM THE ODE ON THE PASSIONS.] — Collins....

...summer's rose, Or flocks or herds or human face divine ; But cloud, instead, and ever-during dark Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for...universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out ! " 3. — [Fno-ii THE ODE on THE PASSIONS.] — Collins....

...note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, •>- the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose,...rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate...

...blindness: 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,...rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Can anyone doubt that the exclusion of these lines would impoverish the poem and, in ways both obvious...

...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,...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine inward,...

..."But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and lor the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal...rased. And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out." (Paradise Lost 3.45-50) Part Two Love in Several Masques 3 The Allusiveness of Thomas Gray His letters...

...human face divine; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works,...rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather i hem, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate;...

...sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful...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 inward,...