 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...  The Works of the English Poets: Milton - Page 102by Samuel Johnson - 1779Full view - About this book
 | Spectator (London, England : 1711) - 1824 - 286 pages
...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;...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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...sole dominion, like the God Of this new world ; at whose sight all the Stars Hide their diminish'd o tefl thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...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,...thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 214 Ah ! wherefore ?— He deserv'd no such return From me, whom he created what 1 was In that... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...thy sole Dominion like 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,...hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Spheare . . . [4.32-39] We cannot fail to recall how the... | |
 | 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"... | |
 | Vera J. Camden - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 276 pages
...Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue. (17-26) 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... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 396 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Robert L. Patten - Art - 1992 - 540 pages
...addresses an irradiated image of the prince regent with words adapted from Book IV of Paradise Lost: "How I hate thy beams, that bring to my remembrance from what state I fell." Those beams are labeled with the names of the victorious allied leaders, Wellington... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...thy sole Dominion like the God Of 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 how I hate thy beams. (4.32-7) The word "sole," suggestive of "sol," is juxtaposed... | |
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