| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1836 - 380 páginas
...infinite. Thee I revisit now with bolder wing, Escap'd the Stygian pool * * * And feel thy sovran, vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs. Or dim suffusion veil'd Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 páginas
...middle darkness borne, With other notes than to the Orphean lyre, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down The dark...Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray,... | |
| Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 páginas
...With other notes than to th' Orphean lyre I sung of Chaos and eternal Night; Taught by the Heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to re-ascend,...Though hard and rare, thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sov'reign vita) lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray,... | |
| Robert Means - 1836 - 622 páginas
...lamentation over his blindness. " Hail, holy Light, offspring of Heaven firet born ! bat t !.. ni Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing...ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs Or dim suffusion veiled. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns... | |
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 páginas
...With other notes then to th' Orphean Lyre I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare ... [3.1,13-21] From this standpoint the first two books of Milton's poem come to represent an experience... | |
| Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 páginas
...25-45). He revisits a lamp that may illuminate him, but does not enable him to see - "thou / Revist'st not these eyes, that roll in vain /To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" (III. 22-24). Others have concluded that a writer's initial scopophilia, his observation of both real... | |
| William Malin Porter - 1993 - 234 páginas
...own labors as a descent: With other notes than to the Orphean lyre I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the heavenly Muse to venture down The dark...descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare. l3.i7-2t) The Miltonic descent is an Orphean, as well as an Aenean, move: the poet, in other words,... | |
| 1993 - 412 páginas
...thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that rowle in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veild. Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt... | |
| Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1994 - 290 páginas
...The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital Lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that...in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn. 65 In the second place, the inset passage helps Hunt to establish his credentials as a romantic poet... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 páginas
...first two books, in which With other notes than to th'Orphean lyre I sung of Chaos and eternal Night, Taught by the Heavenly Muse to venture down The dark...descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare. The Orphic hymns, some of which date back to the fifth century BC, tell of the birth and origins of... | |
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