...advantages which we enjoy from it. Without that blessing our condition would be truly deplorable. . -With the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead,...

...deplorable. Charles. I well remember how feelingly .Milton describes his situation after he lost his sight : -With the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or Kumaa face divine ; But cloud instead,...

...after the organ is destroyed ; but to be reduced to mourn with the poet in these affecting strains : With the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herbs, or human face divine : But cloud instead,...

...no dawn, So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd." " And again, " Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or moro r . Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But...

...Sion, and the flow'ry brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly 1 visit : as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest...returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead,...

...in the lonely indulgence of his melanchoty musings, giving expression to his inborn reflections, — "With the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flecks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead,...

...and blind Mœonides, And Tiresias and Phineus, prophets old : Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary leaves confess the gentlest breeze ; Engag'd mom, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud...

...makes himself familiar amongst his hearers as a father does amongst his children. LETTER XVIII. • Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me...returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n, or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead,...

...Yet still I see enough ! man to himself Is a large prospect, rais'd above the level. Denham's Sophy. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human voice divine ; But cloud...

...Harmonious numbers, as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest eovert hid Tunes her noeturnal %% k-ME & \ q Day, or the sweet approaeh of ev'n or mom, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or floeks, or...