 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
 | James Chapman - 286 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 from what state 214 Ah ! wherefore ?— He deserv'd no such return From me, whom he created what 1 was In that bright... | |
 | John Milton - 1985 - 468 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,...threw me down. Warring in Heaven, against Heaven's Glorious King. 12 12. Paradise Lost, IV, 32-41. 433 There is another very remarkable Passage in the... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 pages
...thir diminisht 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...from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Spheare . . . [4.32-39] We cannot fail to recall how the warmth of the sun shining on the blind poet... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...hates beams that only remind him of his paralysis of the will: "to thee I call, ... O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / I fell" (IV. 35-39). The sun inspires memory of his loss, but no ritual recompense, not in mourning... | |
 | Vera J. Camden - 1989 - 276 pages
...is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue. (17-26) 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance...Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless king! (37-41) What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 pages
...diminished 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...Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king . . ." Yet even Milton revised his intentions. Adam Unparadised was after all to have been a play,... | |
 | Robert L. Patten - 1992 - 540 pages
...addresses an irradiated image of the prince regent with words adapted from Book IV of Paradise Lost: "How I hate thy beams, that bring to my remembrance from what state I fell." Those beams are labeled with the names of the victorious allied leaders, Wellington being... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1993 - 162 pages
...hates beams that only remind him of his paralysis of the will: "to thee I call, ... O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / 1 fell' ' (IV. 35 - 39). The sun inspires memory of his loss, but no ritual recompense, not in mourning - which... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 pages
...procreation writhes with hateful envy at the memory of his own happily procreative state in Heaven: "I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / 1 fell" (4.37-39). Satan lost this state because he abused his procreative powers. He confesses that he "seduc'd"... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...diminished 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...Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King, These ten lines pleased him so well that he showed them to his young pupils, John and Edward Phillips.... | |
| |
