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" 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 376
1845
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The British poets, including translations, Volume 16

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...
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The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers ...

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...
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The British Essayists: Spectator

James Ferguson - English essays - 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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The British essayists, with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volumes 9-10

British essayists - 1823 - 806 pages
...diminish'd heads; to these 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, iv. 32. This speech is, I think, the finest that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. The evil spirit...
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Volume 1

Charles Bucke - Nature - 1823 - 352 pages
...diminished heads : to thee I call, But with DO 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 onre above thy sphere. 1 Xeuoph. Cyrop. viii. « There appear to have been five...
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The English Master: Or, Student's Guide to Reasoning and Composition ...

William Banks - English language - 1823 - 462 pages
...diminished 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!" In the Calvary of Cumberland, this figure is sometimes...
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On the Beauties, Harmonies, and Sublimities of Nature: With ..., Volume 4

Charles Bucke - 1823 - 474 pages
...diminished heads i 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 slate 1 fell ;— bow glorious once above tliy sphere. i Xenoph. Cyrop. viii. 5 There appear to have...
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Select British Poets, Or, New Elegant Extracts from Chaucer to the Present ...

William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tefl thee C. Hall Heav'n against Heav'n's matchless King; Ah wherefore! he deserv'd no such return From me, whom he created...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1824 - 676 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...sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down When Milton designed to have made only a tragedy of the Paradise Lost, it was his intention to have...
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A dictionary of quotations from the British poets, by the author of The ...

British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...Paradise Lost, b, 2. 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...glorious once above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition.threw me down. Ibid. b. 4. Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours, but neither...
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