...nature, which the sight can only supply: if he then be deprived of that sense, 'So much the rather may celestial light/ Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers/ Irradiate' — as our blind poet expresses it. Accordingly in the catalogue of epic (the sublimest kind of) poets,...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...illumines bursts forth from the blind poet: "So much the rather thou celestial light, shine inward. There plant eyes. All mist from thence purge and disperse,...and tell of things invisible to mortal sight""— that I may praise through my pain, verse to converse. Derrida's Response to Regina M. Schwartz Derrida:...

...universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 31 On Mr Milton 's 'Paradise Lost ' ANDREW MARVELL Printed in the second edition of Paradise Lost (1674)....

...them to that end ; in a question, moreover, where so many adventurers have so miserably miscarried. So much the rather, thou celestial light, Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight*. * Milton. 48 CHAPTER IV. HAVING thus disposed of the word " Cloic-teach," which Dr. Ledwich so relied...

...Brantwood dining room. Doge Enrico Dandolo, who is discussed in The Queen of the Air (XIX, 391-92). Milton, 'So much the rather thou Celestial light / Shine inward,...through all her powers / Irradiate, there plant eyes . . . / that I may see and tell / Of things invisible to mortal sight.' Paradise Lost, III, 51-55)....

...Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou Celestial Light Shine inward,...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 55 Now had th' Almighty Father from above, From the pure Empyrean where he sits High Thron'd above...

...Universal blanc Of Nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd, 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. (40-55) Milton's poetic invocations are unusual in developing such a deeply personal and inward perspective,...