Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Comus: A Mask - Page 64by John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
| Frederick ROWTON - Debates and debating - 1846 - 366 pages
...pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." Again ; hear the Spirit in Comus : " Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime'; Or if Virtue feeble were Heaven itself would stoop to... | |
| Electronic journals - 1917 - 482 pages
...firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." Evil shall perish, but good shall remain. " Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth'a end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend ; e phantasms appear often, and do frequent cemeteries,...is because those are the dormitories of the dead, w ye how to climb Higher than the sphcry chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - America - 1847 - 72 pages
...poet, whose own genius was translated, by the contemplation of God, into the divinest nature : — " Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach you...than the sphery chime ; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her." This elevation of the habitual promptings of the ordinary actions... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...comers of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Lore Virtue; she alone is free: She can teach ye hat you ought to take that course As we take you, for better Неатеп itself wmild stoop to her. Нотапм of MUton'e House at Forest НШ, near Orford ;... | |
| Maria Jane McIntosh - Cousins - 1847 - 284 pages
...excellent Italian master to attend them. I CHAPTER IV. " Love Virtue : she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her." Coma. TIME glided rapidly away, rapidly to Mrs. Elliot, who had... | |
| Edward Everett - Bible - 1848 - 586 pages
...poet, whose own genius was translated, by the contemplation of God, into the divinest nature : — " Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach you...than the sphery chime ; Or if virtue feeble were. Heaven itself would stoop to her." This elevation of the habitual promptings of the ordinary actions... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend ; r how thing» go, Or who's our friend, or who's our...tedious hours away, We throw a merry main ; Or else a ye how to climb Higher than the splicry chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
| England - 1849 - 822 pages
...shown in the creative and symbolic, as exemplified in his poetic conception of Virtue from Milton— " She can teach you how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven iuelf would stoop to her." If we believe genius to be an inspiring spirit, we may contemplate... | |
| 1856 - 666 pages
...head j! by the closing lines in Comus, uttered by the Good Spirit who rescued the captive lady — Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery clime : Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
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