 But, if the choice were necessary, I would, sir, prefer my blindness to yours ; yours is a cloud spread over the mind, which darkens both the light of reason and of conscience ; mine keeps from my view only the...  Memoirs of Christina, Queen of Sweden - Page 1by Henry Woodhead - 1863Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...recollection a treasured store of tranquillity and delight. But if the choice were necessary, I would, Sir, rman isles, tt while it leaves me at liberty to contemplate the beauty and stability of virtue and of truth. How many... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...as beneficial as possible to the public interest. " But, if the choice were necessary, I would, sir, prefer my blindness to yours ; yours is a cloud spread...from my view only the coloured surfaces of things, while it leaves me at liberty to contemplate the beauty and stability of virtue and of truth. How many... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...would, Sir, prefer my hlindness to yours : yours is a cloud spread over the mind, which darkens hoth the light of reason and of conscience ; mine keeps...from my view only the coloured surfaces of things, while it leaves me at liherty to contemplate the heauty and stahility of virtue and of truth. There... | |
 | Children's literature - 1848 - 800 pages
...recollection a treasured store of tranquility and delight. But if the choice were necessary, I would, sir, prefer my blindness to yours : yours is a cloud spread...from my view only the coloured surfaces of things, while it leaves me at liberty to contemplate the beauty and stability of virtue and of truth. How many... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - English poetry - 1843 - 224 pages
...great deprivation was a mark of the divine displeasure. ' If the choice were necessary,' he declares, ' I would prefer my blindness to yours : yours is a...from my view only the coloured surfaces of things, while it leaves me at liberty to contemplate the beauty and stability of virtue and of truth. There... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...enjoy, as beneficial to the public as possible. " But, if the choice were necessary, I would, sir, prefer my blindness to yours ; yours is a cloud spread...from my view only the coloured surfaces of things, while it leaves me at liberty to contemplate the beauty and stability of virtue and of truth. How many... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - English poetry - 1844 - 294 pages
...great deprivation was a mark of the divine displeasure. " If the choice were necessary," he declares, " I would prefer my blindness to yours : yours is a...and of conscience ; mine keeps from my view only the colored surfaces of things, while it leaves me at liberty to contemplate the beauty and stability of... | |
 | Christopher Legge Lordan - 1844 - 290 pages
...great deprivation was a mark of the divine displeasure. " If the choice were necessary," he declares, " I would prefer my blindness to yours: yours is a cloud...and of conscience ; mine keeps from my view only the colored surfaces of things, while it leaves me at liberty to contemplate the beauty and stability of... | |
 | John [prose] Milton - 1848 - 590 pages
...recollection a treasured store of tranquillity and delight. But, if the choice were necessary, I would, sir, prefer my blindness to yours ; yours is a cloud spread...from my view only the coloured surfaces of things, while it leaves me at liberty to contemplate the beauty and stability of virtue and of truth. How many... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 720 pages
...and delight. But if the choice were necessary, I would, sir, prefer my blindness to your's : your's is a cloud spread over the mind, which darkens both...from my view only the coloured surfaces of things, while it leaves me at liberty to contemplate the beauty and stability of virtue and of truth. How many... | |
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