Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Obscure
And through the palpable obscure find out
His uncouth way.
Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book II. Line 406.
Such as I oft have chaunced to espy
Lost in the dreary shades of dull obscurity.
Shenstone.—The Schoolmistress, Verse 1.