 Nor skilled, nor studious, higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed, and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear.  Gaieties and Gravities: A Series of Essays, Comic Tales, and Fugitive ... - Page 295by Horace Smith - 1825Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1910 - 392 pages
...Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed ; and much they may if...be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear. The Sun was sunk, and after him the Star Of Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the Earth,... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climat, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed ; and much they may if...be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my ear. The Sun was sunk, and after him the Star Of Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight upon the Earth,... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...his last invocation: unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest; and much they may, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. (9.44-47) Continuing the tradition begun with Michael's renewal of "the inmost seat of mental sight,"... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climat, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest, and much they may, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. [9.39-47] In this combination of suffering and hope, anguish at mankind's failures and faith in his... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climat, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest, m and curteisie. Ful worthy was he in his lordes werre, And therto hadde he (Bk. IX, 1. 41-47) NAEL-I; NAWM-1; NoP; OBS; TOP 89 Them she upstays Gently with myrtle band, mindless... | |
 | Steven Knapp - Education - 1993 - 192 pages
...properly. Thus the poet hopes that he and his poem will achieve "heroic name," but they won't do so "if all be mine, / Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear" (Paradise Lost, IX. 44— 47). He actively persists despite his blindness, but his only persistent... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed; and much they may if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nighdy to my ear. The sun was sunk, and after him the star Of Hesperus, whose office is to bring Twilight... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 764 pages
...write Paradise Losf, he wonders whether the poem may actually be not inspired, that it may in fact "all be mine, / Not Hers, who brings it nightly to my Ear." Three-quarters into the work, he thus raises the possibility of its fundamentally mistaken claim; almost... | |
 | Lana Cable - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1995 - 252 pages
...self-chastizing "So did I weave my self into the sense" ("Jordan," 1.14)—or Milton's self-effacing "if all be mine, / Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear" (PL IX.46-7)—bears witness to the poet's anxiety over the individual creative impetus toward perfect... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or Years damp my intended wing Deprest; and much they may, if all be mine, Not Hers who brings it nightly to my Ear. (9.41-7) The poet-narrator's primary concern is not the possibility of being muted; he is more threatened... | |
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