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 Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. Deborah's diary, a sequel to 'Mary Powell'. - Page 129by Anne Manning - 1858 - 216 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1834 - 546 pages
...rose, Or flocks or herds, or human fnce divine; But clouds instead, and ever-during dark, Surround me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom,... | |
| Benjamin Godwin - Apologetics - 1834 - 314 pages
...rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surround me ! From the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd ; And wisdom... | |
| Abram V. Courtney - Blind - 1835 - 60 pages
...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 Nature's works, to me expunged and raised, And... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark 45 Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the hook of knowledge fair his Hymn* with honor in the heginning of his 8th hook of Laws, and towards the... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...rosé de l'été, ni les 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 nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - English literature - 1836 - 380 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But clouds 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 Nature's works, to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom... | |
| Edwin John Mann - Deaf - 1836 - 324 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; Bat cloud instead, and ever-dnring dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off ; and the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expang'd and ras'd,... | |
| William Graham (teacher of elocution.) - 1837 - 370 pages
...bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine j 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 nature's works, to me expunged and razed, And wisdom,... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...troupeaux, ni la face divine de l'homme. Des nuages et des 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 a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...rose de l'été, ni les Or flocks, or herds, or human face 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 a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom... | |
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