 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 Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...can fly , or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend; 1015 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 1020 Higher than the sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...Comus' thus ends:— 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. Thyer says, that "the moral of this poem is very finely summed up... | |
 | Stanhope Busby - English poetry - 1837 - 136 pages
...the further assistance of the water-nymph Sabrina, the spell is broken, and the moral inculcated : Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free ; She can teach you how to climh Higher thau the sphery clime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Such... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 pages
...we can gratify it with at present, serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. FRANKLIN. 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... | |
 | Charles Bucke - Anecdotes - 1837 - 364 pages
...Virtues imply struggles ; hence the propriety of a celebrated passage in Milton's ' Comus :' — ' 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, 1015 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 1020 1003 Assyrian] Tickell and Penton read ' the Cyprian Queen. wn corners] Macbeth,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...can fly, or I can run Quickly to the grecn earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, 1015 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 1020 looa Jwfriari] Tickell and Fenton read ' the Cyprian Queen. M« corners] Macbeth,... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 pages
...by the touch of her " chaste palms moist and cold" the spirit epiloguizes, and the drama . ends. " 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... | |
 | André Jean Marie Hamon - Bishops - 1839 - 292 pages
...appreciate the full force o/Milton's exquisite homily — 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. ' There is only one portion of this most beautiful "drama of life,"... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd 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, ,. PARADISE LOST. OF Man's... | |
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