 O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how...  English grammar and composition - Page 172by Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1853Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...diminished heads ; to thee I call, 35 But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance...sphere; ^ Till pride and worse ambition threw me down 40 Warring in Heav'n against Heav'n's matchless King : Ah, wherefore ! he deservM no such return From... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 346 pages
...diminish'd heads; to thee I call, 35 But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance...glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse amhition threw me down 40 Warring in He&v'n against Heav'n's matchless King: Ah! wherefore! he deseiVd... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...dimiaish'd heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere ; 'Till Pride and worse Ambition threw me down Warring in... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...diminish M heads; to thee I call, Bat with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what stale 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring... | |
 | 1822 - 788 pages
...thy lole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the start Hide their diminishM heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice:...from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.1 t This speech is, I think, the finest that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. The evil... | |
 | 1822 - 696 pages
...few of the thousand passages which show that the direct contrary of all these is the truth. «< — pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless King1, iv. — all his good proved ill in me, And wrought but malice, iv. —as God in heaven Is center,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, O Sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in... | |
 | William Enfield - 1823 - 412 pages
...diminish'd. heads;, to. thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how. I hate thy beams,. That bring to my remembrance...pride, and worse ambition. threw me down, Warring in Heav'n against Heav'n's matchless King Ah, wherefore ? he deserv'd no such, return From me, whom he... | |
 | John Milton - 1823 - 306 pages
...remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse amhition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless...deserved no such return From me, whom he created what 1 was In that bright eminence, and wIth his good Upbraided none ; nor was his service hard. What could... | |
 | 1823 - 354 pages
...diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice : and add thy name, 0 Sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance...state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.' This speech is, I think, the finest that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. The evil spirit afterwards... | |
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