 O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 3761845Full view - About this book
 | James Ferguson - English essays - 1819 - 378 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1819 - 376 pages
...dimiuish,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... | |
 | William Playfair - France - 1819 - 458 pages
...vanity he saw the sun: ^_ \ " To thee I call, but with no friendly voice, \ " To tell thee, Albion, how I hate thy beams, " That bring to my remembrance from what state " I fell." France is essentially an agricultural country; or, to use their own favourite term, eminently... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun ! to tell thec how I hate thy beams, Tli.it , Than his predictions prove a lie. Not one foretells...to give me over. Yet should some neighbour feel n Ah, wherefore ! he deserv'd no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence,... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 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 - Hymns, English - 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 - Bible - 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... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 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... | |
 | English literature - 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,... | |
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