 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with...And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much i In; rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...divine ; But cloud instead, and evcr-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...divine ; But cloud instead, and evcr-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair •Presented with...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all... | |
 | John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...ténèBut cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above/ From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all... | |
 | William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom, at one entrance, quite shut out. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. DESCRIPTION OF A BLIND M AN.— Wordsworth. Soul-cheering Light, most bountiful of things ! Guide of... | |
 | John Bell - 1837 - 464 pages
...increate," and after bemoaning his hard fate in having " wisdom at one entrance quite shut out," adds, — " So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." We should do injustice to the views advanced, were we to give but a few extracts, and then stop short... | |
 | 1838 - 586 pages
...book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where He sits High thron'd above all... | |
 | Frederic James Post, of Islington - 1838 - 528 pages
...Vide BRUCE. — FJ p. Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." 1831, 12mo. 7th. — A PARAPHRASE UPON CHAP. iV. 2 TIMOTHY. I charge thee, therefore, to preach the... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 518 pages
...universal blank Of nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. GO So much the rather thou celestial light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 55 Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High thron'd above... | |
 | 1839 - 366 pages
...Book of Knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out ; So much...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." Having offered these celebrated examples of blind men eloquent, whom we must submit as the representatives... | |
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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 book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of... 
