 O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from 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, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how...  Milton's Paradise Lost; Or, The Fall of Man: With Historical, Philosophical ... - Page 139by John Milton - 1754 - 430 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...diminished heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 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 worse2 ambition threw me down, Warring... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice ; and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how 1 fell, how glorious once — above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring... | |
 | Frederick Charles Cook - 1849 - 144 pages
...glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams; That bring to my remembrance from what state Warring in heav'n against heav'n's matchless King : Ah, wherefore ! he deserv'd no such return From... | |
 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - English essays - 1849 - 484 pages
...diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice ; and add thy name, 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." This speech is, I think, the finest that is ascribed to... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...diminished heads ; to thee I cnll, lInt with no friendly voice, and add thy name 0 Sun, to tell tliee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Til! pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in... | |
 | John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1850 - 318 pages
...diminish'd heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 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 in... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...diminish'd heads; to thee I call, But with no fricndly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state If ell; how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in... | |
 | Queen's University of Belfast - Education, Higher - 1852 - 306 pages
...diminished heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name 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 in... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, O Sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's... | |
 | Henry Winter Davis - Europe - 1852 - 456 pages
...And shall he not add — when the prophetic scales hang out on high which weigh his waning power — "That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell — how glorious once above thy sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down." But shall he be reduced to this humiliating... | |
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