...original sin, Milton turns away from. TANTALUS AND ORPHEUS 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, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not the...

...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...

...though few. He visits a lamp that may illuminate him, but that does not enable him to see—"Thou / Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" (3.22-24). Descriptions of Milton's ideology of male domination must survive this...

...the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed .... 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, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. No doubt...

.../ Harmonious numbers" to the figurai light he makes the source of their volition, still that light "Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" (LM 3.22-24). His attempt to elicit supernatural illumination only ramifies the opposed...

...dark descent, and up to reascend, » Though hard and rare: thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st 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. Yet not...

...dark descent, and up to reascend, 20 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, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quencht thir Orbs, 25 Or dim suffusion veil'd. Yet not...

...schmerzhaft allegorisch, der sensus historicus ist dem blinden Erzähler physisch verschlossen: „[...] but thou / Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray [...]" (III,22b-24a). Das himmlische Licht fällt in eine subjektive Schwärze, gemalt von der Blindheit...

...God, much as Satan and the devils repeatedly find themselves throughout the poem: "thou / Revisit 'st not these eyes, that roll in vain / To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn" ( 3.22-4). The motif of the poet's precarious, exhilarating flight recurs in the...

...earlier echo here in 2.432-3; (rare = both "unusual" and "through ratified air"). And feel thy sovereign vital lamp, but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To0 find thy piercing ray and find no dawn, So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs Or dim...