 Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.  Comus: A Mask - Page 64by John Milton, John Dalton - 1791 - 66 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...done I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals who would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...shuts his eye, but it ends with a Miltonic moral: Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. Comus is a remarkable performance. Its freshness, variety, sureness... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...its meaning to "set forth" into a future that could possibly hold Paradise Lost. THE PROMISE OP JOVE Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the Sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to... | |
 | John Milton - 1926 - 360 pages
...don, I canfy, or I can run Quickly to the green earths end, Where the how'd welkin slow doth hend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the Moon. Mortals that would follow me, Love vertue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to clime Higher then the Spheary chime; Or if Vertue... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...done, I can fly or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of...me, Love virtue; she alone is free; She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to... | |
 | British Academy - Biography & Autobiography - 2001 - 736 pages
...of the Ludlow Maske. Mortals that would follow me. Love Virtue. she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime: Or if Virtue feeble were. Heaven itself would stoop to her.24 The Maske achieves closure aspiring to an interaction between humanity... | |
 | Annabel Robinson - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 364 pages
...memory in later years was the beauty of Rupert as the Attendant Spirit, speaking the final benediction, Mortals, that would follow me Love Virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...done, I can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend,0 And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.0 Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue, she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 278 pages
...that such potential, national or individual, can be realized; the masque concludes with the moral, Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the Sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to... | |
 | Elizabeth Kantor - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 278 pages
....those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye Up in the broad fields of the sky. . . . Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue, she alone...Higher than the sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Milton's best-known sonnet is also about temptation. In this case,... | |
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