 O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from 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, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee...  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 76by John Milton - 1826 - 350 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | 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...all agree to give me over. Yet should some neighbour Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King: Ah, wherefore ! he deserv'd no such return From... | |
 | John Milton - 1821 - 226 pages
...what stale 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King...his good Upbraided none ; nor was his service hard. What could be less than to afford him praise. The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How due!... | |
 | John Bowdler - 1821 - 510 pages
...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 created what I was...His good Upbraided none ; nor was His service hard. What could be less than to afford Him praise, The easiest recompence, and pay Him thanks, How due !... | |
 | 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... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 302 pages
...what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless King....his good Upbraided none ; nor was his service hard. What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How due !... | |
 | 1822 - 788 pages
...diminishM heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice: and add thy name, 0 Sun ! to tell thec eph sphere.1 t This speech is, I think, the finest that is ascribed to Satan in the whole poem. The evil... | |
 | 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...sphere ! Till 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... | |
 | James Ferguson - 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... | |
 | 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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