 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...but simply addresses the physical planet in terms that convey an implicit paganism, sun-worship: O thou that with surpassing Glory crownd, Look'st from...the God Of this new World; at whose sight all the Starrs Hide thir diminisht heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name 0 Sun,... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...soliloquy, an example of a prayer that does not work. Satan's invocation perverts the convention - "to thee I call / But with no friendly voice, and add thy name / O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams" (IV. 35-37). This call receives no answer. Soon the "prayer"... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 396 pages
...version of Satan's address to man in Book IV of the final poem: 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... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...by the objects presented 3 us. (This observation also may be applied to his speech in the ninth *' O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like tlie God Of this new world, &c. [IV, 32-4] Led by the marks of power and goodness in the creation,... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...in a scene of personal confession and of critical judgment (Carey and Fowler, eds., bk 4, n 30): O thou that with surpassing Glory crown'd, Look'st from...this new World; at whose sight all the Stars Hide thir diminisht heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name O Sun, to tell thee... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...He even composed the beginning of the soliloquy: O Thou that with surpassing glory crowned Lookest 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... | |
 | Mervyn Nicholson - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 284 pages
...in Book 4 of Paradise Lost, especially its opening lines: "O thou that with surpassing glory crowned Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this...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... | |
 | Geoffrey H. Hartman, Professor Geoffrey H Hartman - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 348 pages
...sun in a powerful and peculiar monologue, culminating in a curse that contains a reluctant blessing: to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams (4-35-37) Satan's naming, though not unlike Adamic naming,... | |
 | Victoria Silver - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 432 pages
...disfiguring deity's new creation just as he had the old: O thou that with surpassing glory crowned, Look's! from thy sole dominion like the God Of this new world; at whose sight all the the stars Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name... | |
 | Ruth Katz, Ruth HaCohen - Philosophy - 2003 - 462 pages
...halanced hy rule, hut measured hy sentiment, and flowing in ever new yet musical proportions: O though, that with surpassing glory crown'd Look'st from thy...call; But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy heams. h42 THE vast accession to our language of foreign compounds... | |
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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... 
