 | Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 266 pages
...blind Mseonides, And Tyresias, and Phineus, prophets old: Then fed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,...with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n and morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks,... | |
 | 1828 - 318 pages
...blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old ; Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling,...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,... | |
 | Henry Hunter - 1828 - 336 pages
...affecting strains : With the year Seasons return ; but not to me returus Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose,...herds, or human face divine : But cloud instead, and ever during dark Surrounds me '. from the cheeriul ways of men Cut off; and for the book of knowledge... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 pages
...proper protraction and suspension of voice, on the closing syllable, — as in the following notation ; -Thus with the year • Seasons return, but not to...•• Day || or the sweet approach of even or morn. And over them triumphant Death his dart •• Shook |t but delayed to strike. AH air seemed then ••... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year 40 Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - 1994 - 276 pages
...even as he denies their visible reality for him: 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 (PL 3.41-4) The difference between 'holy Light, offspring of Heav'n first-born' (named in the... | |
 | Corinna Ruth - 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...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 of Aristotle,... | |
 | Mark L. Greenberg - 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,...face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark, "a universal blank /Of Nature's works to [him] expunged and razed"? Only Autumn responds and appears... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - 1860 - 498 pages
...genius by whose example he tells us he took courage, — " Seasons returned; but not for him returned Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine." But he went from his darkened chamber and his couch of pain to his noble work, as a strong man rejoicing... | |
 | Blanford Parker - 1998 - 282 pages
...the common motifs of Davidic naturalism, "But not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, / Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose...But cloud instead and ever-during dark / Surrounds me."33 In Prior's passage we also have the returning cloud, the darkening of nature, but in the context... | |
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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... 
