...shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence...pure empyrean where He sits High thron'd above all highth, bent down his eye, His own works, and their works, at once to view : About him all the Sanctities...

...as they are when the narrator implores God to purge his sight, as Michael purges Adam's vision: "... there plant eyes, all mist from thence / Purge and...see and tell / Of things invisible to mortal sight" (3.53-55), or when he pleads "What in me is dark, / Illumine, what is low raise and support" (1.22-23)....

...shut out. So much the rather thou Celestial light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. 試奏看夜曲。 於是， 年年都有 四季輪轉， 但是， 我這裏卸永遠 輪不到白晝，...

...me ... So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all thee powers Irradiate; there plant eyes; all mist from thence...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.15 The inability of painting to fix pure light received justification in the numerous reminiscences...

...out. 50 So much the rather i hem, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate; there plant eyes; all mist from thence...that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.317 Now had the Almighty Father from above, From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned...

...Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers / Irradiate"—to enable him to see outward—"There plant eyes, all mist from thence / Purge and disperse,...see and tell / Of things invisible to mortal sight" (3.51-55). In his formulation, this narrator is illuminated so that he can see. The epic begins, "What...

...rather thou Celestial light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plam eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. (III.40-55):' Now, there is another Miltonic reference in /Vf/.XII.31-33. equally alluding to a break...

...poet who in 1667 had asked for 'Celestial Light' to Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence...may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight (Milton 1990: 201) was himself enlisted as a secular scripture in the cause of what was already, by...

...shut out. So much the rather thou celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence...see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. (PL, 1n.4o-55)1 The passage turns, as the poem turns, upon God's ability to bring light out of darkness....

...self-expression: So much the rather, Thou Celestial Light, Shine inward and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence...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...