 Tunes her nocturnal note : 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 ; But cloud instead, and ever-during...  Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is ... - Page 74by John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796Full view - About this book
 | Corinna Ruth - Study Aids - 2013 - 146 pages
...nature. 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 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 - English language - 1996 - 224 pages
...possibility that the apostrophes are vain, that though "with the year / Seasons return," not to the speaker returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...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... | |
 | Blanford Parker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 282 pages
...outward sight. The passage in Milton incorporates the common motifs of Davidic naturalism, "But not to me returns / Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,...face divine; / 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... | |
 | Wolfgang Capito, William Roy - Humor - 1999 - 334 pages
...understand without his assistance. And surely the agony associated with his own blindness - 'but not to me returns/ Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn,/...divine;/ But cloud instead, and ever-during dark/ Surround me' (m 41-6) - must have held some consolation for him - indeed may have been seen as providential,... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 284 pages
...insight. 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,...flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud in stead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book... | |
 | Michael McKeon - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2000 - 972 pages
...blindness: Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or rhe sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose....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... | |
 | Paul Hammond - Drama - 2002 - 484 pages
...note. Thus with the year 40 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,...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... | |
 | Susan Stewart - Literary Criticism - 2002 - 472 pages
...lyric: . . . 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,...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... | |
 | David Loewenstein - Literary Collections - 2004 - 160 pages
...which concludes his invocation to Light in Book 3: Thus with the Year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of Ev'n or Morn....face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me. from the cheerful ways of men Cutoff, and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented with... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...note. Thus with the year 40 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,...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... | |
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