 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 how...  Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical ... - Page 139by John Milton - 1754 - 430 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Playfair - France - 1819 - 456 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 so, (eminiment);... | |
 | 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 from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere., This speech is, I think, the finest that is ascribed to... | |
 | 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 from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.' This speech is, I think, the finest that is ascribed to... | |
 | 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 from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; ^ Till pride and worse ambition threw me down 40 Warring... | |
 | 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 heav'n against heav'n's... | |
 | 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 from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse amhition threw me down 40 Warring... | |
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1822 - 788 pages
...diminishM heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice: and add thy name, 0 Sun ! to tell thec how I hate thHh % 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.1 t This speech is, I think, the finest that is ascribed... | |
 | 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 employed to great advantage.... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 682 pages
...diminished 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 from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere. This speech is, I think, the finest that is ascribed to... | |
 | 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 from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy, sphere ! Till pride, and worse ambition. threw me down, Warring... | |
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