 Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how...  A Journey to Great-Salt-Lake City - Page xiiby Jules Remy, Julius Lucius Brenchley - 1861Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...limb Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led : 20 But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew...To speak I tried, and forthwith spake ; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw. ' Thou sun,' said I, ' fair light, And thou enlighten'd... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...by limb Survey'd ; and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew...to speak I tried, and forthwith spake ; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw. Thou Sun, said I, fair light, And thou, eulighten'd... | |
 | 1853 - 488 pages
...limb Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes With supple joints, as lively vigour led : [ran Buth who I was, or where, or from what cause Knew not : to speak I tried, and forthwith [spake; My tongue obey'd and readily could name Whate'er I saw. Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Shakspere. That love which first was set will first decay, Mine of a fresher date will longer stay. Dryden. Thou sun, said I, fair light! And thou enlightened earth, so fresh and gay. Milton. With such a care As roses from their stalks we tear, When we would still preserve them new,... | |
 | James William Gilbart - 1854 - 428 pages
...representation of Milton, in his Paradise Lost : — " To speak I tried, and forthwith spake ; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw. Thou Sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd Earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods and plaius, And ye that live... | |
 | Thomas De Quincey - 1854 - 364 pages
...limb by limb Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led; But who I was or where, or from what cause, Knew not." — Paradite Lost, book viii. The who, the where (in any extended sense, ie, as regarded the external... | |
 | 1855 - 900 pages
...limb by limb Surveyed, and sometimes vxnt, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigor led ; But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew...tongue obeyed, and readily could name Whate'er I saw." And this fine description contains philosophy as well as poetry. The Creator can dispense, if it so... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 pages
...limb by limb Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led: But who I was, or where, or from what cause. Knew...to speak I tried, and forthwith spake ; My tongue obey'd, and readily eould name Whate'er I saw. Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth,... | |
 | 1855 - 892 pages
...limb by limb Surveyed, and sometimes went and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew...; to speak I tried and forthwith spake ; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw. Thou sun, said I, fair light ! And thou enlightened... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...With supple joints, as lively vigour led: But who I was, or where, or from what cause, 1 Gazed at. Knew not; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake; My...tongue obeyed, and readily could name Whate'er I saw. 1 ' Thou sun,' said I, ' fair light, And thou enlightened earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales,... | |
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