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... The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton - Página 85de John Milton - 1892 - 618 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
| A. Bartlett Giamatti - 1984 - 196 páginas
...flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me . . . So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. In the raising of a visor, and all it means, we may see things invisible to mortal sight in revelations... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 páginas
...his blindness cuts him off, but not without hope and not without the aid of prayer and meditation: So much the rather thou Celestial light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. [3.51-55] At once, as though in answer to that prayer, the poem makes in effect a new start, as we... | |
| 1993 - 412 páginas
...Universal blanc Of Natures works to mee expung'd and ras'd, And wisdome at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou Celestial light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 試奏看夜曲。 於是, 年年都有 四季輪轉, 但是, 我這裏卸永遠 輪不到白晝,... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 páginas
...works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather i hem, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.317 Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned... | |
| Tony Davies - 1997 - 170 páginas
...anticlericalism to his reading of Milton. In short, the blind poet who in 1667 had asked for 'Celestial Light' to Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers...may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight (Milton 1990: 201) was himself enlisted as a secular scripture in the cause of what was already, by... | |
| Karen L. Edwards - 2005 - 284 páginas
...universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, 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. (PL, 1n.4o-55)1 The passage turns, as the poem turns, upon God's ability to bring light out of darkness.... | |
| Scott D. Evans - 1999 - 180 páginas
...divine force in it" (21-22). Milton speaks from within the same tradition: So much the rather them Celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.20 The classical notion of poetic genius as exemplified and recounted by Plato, Sidney, and Milton... | |
| Peter Brown - 2000 - 572 páginas
...Paradise Lost, will be the last exponent of this great tradition of philosophical self-expression: So much the rather, Thou Celestial Light, Shine inward...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.1 Yet such prayers were usually regarded as part of a preliminary stage in the lifting of the... | |
| Kate Flint - 2000 - 450 páginas
...being cut off 'from the cheerful ways of men', Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works ... So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward,...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.42 Andrew Marvell took up the theme of compensation for blindness in 'On Paradise Lost', prefixed... | |
| Olga Fischer, Max Nänny - 2001 - 412 páginas
...explicit reference to the poet's blindness, who can sing the invisible, just because he cannot see: So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine inward,...may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight (Ibid.: 54-55, III, 51-55). Visuality is censured, and exhibited as the means fit only to portray evil,... | |
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