...Archbishop Sale — Departure of Hampden 159 COLLOQUIES ON RELIGION RELIGIOUS EDUCATION. CHAPTER I. " So much the rather thou celestial light Shine inward...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." MILTON. AT the close of a sultry day, whilst enjoying the cooling breezes of the evening on the ramparts...

...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,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. FROM THE SAME. BOOK IV. O thou that with surpassing glory crowned, Lookst from thy sole dominion like...

...Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the Book of knowledge fair Presented with an universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged...Light. Shine inward, and the mind through all her pow'rs Irradiate, there plant eyes ; all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell...

...as brightly as ever. We might say of him as our great poet said of himself under a like trial: — " So much the rather, thou, Celestial Light Shine inward...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." His last illness was but of short duration. It has been truly said that nothing more was needed to...

...his want of natural or bodily sight, together with the privations consequent thereon, he adds : — " So much the rather thou. Celestial Light, Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight" If the reader will bear with me — which I hope he will — I must give yet another instance of a...

...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,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. On his throne high above nil height, the Almighty Father sat viewing his works. He beheld first our...

...universal blank Of Nature's works, to mo expung'd and ras'rl, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather, thou celestial light, Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." His first wife died in the year 1662, leaving him three daughters; ami he not long afterwards married...

...universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." Gloriously was this last aspiration fulfilled ! It has been finely said, Milton is never more himself...

...to have been a native of Ma3onia (the repetition of the conjnnction " or." So much the rather them, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 55 Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean1 where He sits High-throned above...

...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,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight." The " Paradise Lost" was not the only poem that Milton gave to the world after his blindness. " Paradise...