...eldest daughter ; Oh how thou art full Of grace and goodness ! Oh ! how beautiful. Book III., 1. 45. But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds...universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Amidst the general excellence of the annotation in...

...eldest daughter ; Oh how thou art full Of grace and goodness ! Oh ! how beautiful. Book III., 1. 45. But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds...universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Amidst the general excellence of the annotation in...

...vDay^thei ii. Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; Hut cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me,...universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom, at one entrance, quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine...

...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-daring dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut...Presented, with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Shine inward, and the mind through all...

...orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. * * * * Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns 10 Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight...universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance12 quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine...

...two, equalled with me in fate, So were I equalled with them in renown, -And Tiresias, and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary...universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine inward,...

...deplorable. C. I well remember how feelingly Milton describes his situation after he lost his sight : With the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns...and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom, at one entrance, quite...

...in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to mo y'st, Leads up to Heaven, is both the expung'd and ros'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light,...

...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 rased, And Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine inward,...

...80 jlovery frroofcs] flowing, silver, crystal, purling. Bentl. MS. " Thamyris] Stat. Theb. iv. 183. Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks,...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 the rather thou celestial...