...him only of scenes that exist no longer to him. " Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround me."} * Gray, de Princip. Cogit. lib. iv 85—96. t Paradise Lost, Book 111. v. 1—12. $...

...in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...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...

...Regained," lamenting liis blindness, exclaims, " Thus, with the year, Seasons return ; bat not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine." (" Paradise Lost," b. iii., 1. 40-44.) In the concluding stanza of this beautiful hymn, "...

...Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But clouds instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me ; from...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 at one entrance quite shut...

...or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, j . Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, ,:,i n I Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;: But cloud instead, and ever-during daik .' Surrounds him! . . . • . MI' . The reflection is a natural one. He once made it himself:...

...in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return : but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...off, and for' the book of knowledge fair Presented whh a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite...

...shadiest covert hid, Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus, with the year, Seasons return — but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,...face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented...

...years, drudging at his courses, and where, for want of money, he may exclaim with Milton, that — Ever-during dark Surrounds me : from the cheerful...knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank. r. L. iii. 45. Which is as much as to say that he is totally in the dark as to what is doing abroad,...

...graces of all bounteous nature. — — — Thus with the year, Seasons return, but not to me return Day or the sweet approach of even or morn; Or sight...summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine. Paradise Lost, book iv.; Milton is supposed to have imbibed many of bis ideas, respecting landscape,...

...courses, and where, for want of money, he may exclaim with Milton, that -Ever-during dark Surrounds him : from the cheerful ways of men Cut off; and for the...knowledge fair, Presented with an universal blank. Which is as much as to say, that he is totally in the dark as to what is doing abroad, and that while...