 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...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,...Heaven against Heaven's matchless King: Ah wherefore ! he deserv'd no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 384 pages
...sole dominion like llic 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...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... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 388 pages
...god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish d heads ; to theeT call, Hut with no friendly voice ; and add thy name 0 Sun !...beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 full, how glorious once above thy sphere.' This speech is I think, the finest that is ascribed to Satan... | |
 | Joseph Addison - 1811 - 514 pages
...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...and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beam*, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere. This... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide tbeir dimiitish'd heads ; to thee I call, 35 Bui with MO friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun ! to tell...how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and wone ambition threw me down 40 Warring in Ht-av'n against Heav'n's matchless King Ah ! wh- n-foiv !... | |
 | 1845 - 816 pages
...diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 SUN ! to tell thec how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance...Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king ! " And so on for nearly a hundred lines, in many a changeful strain, arch-angelical all, of heaven-remembering... | |
 | James Ferguson - 1819 - 378 pages
...as the opening of his speech to the sun is very bold and noble : Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee...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
...thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose light all the stars Hide their dimiuish,d heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1820 - 342 pages
...God Of this new world : at whose sight all the stars Hide (heir diminished heads ; to thee I call, 35 But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun,...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 Aikin - 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 ! he deserv'd no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with... | |
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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... 
