 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 Paradise Lost of Milton - Page 1141827 - 24 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...23-26) Satan hates beams that only remind him of his paralysis of the will: "to thee I call, ... O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / I fell" (IV. 35-39). The sun inspires memory of his loss, but no ritual recompense, not in mourning... | |
 | Vera J. Camden - 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...Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless king! (37-41) What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 pages
...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...Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king . . ." Yet even Milton revised his intentions. Adam Unparadised was after all to have been a play,... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1993 - 162 pages
...23-26) Satan hates beams that only remind him of his paralysis of the will: "to thee I call, ... O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / 1 fell' ' (IV. 35 - 39). The sun inspires memory of his loss, but no ritual recompense, not in mourning - which... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 pages
...procreation writhes with hateful envy at the memory of his own happily procreative state in Heaven: "I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / 1 fell" (4.37-39). Satan lost this state because he abused his procreative powers. He confesses that he "seduc'd"... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 pages
...crowned Lookest 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...Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King, These ten lines pleased him so well that he showed them to his young pupils, John and Edward Phillips.... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - 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... | |
 | Fiona J. Stafford, Howard Gaskill - 1998 - 284 pages
...the reader once again to Paradise Lost, and Satan's address to the sun in the fourth book (32-41): Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But with...how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worst ambition threw me down Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king. Here, it is not Cuchullin... | |
 | David Loewenstein - 2004 - 160 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,...Pride and worse Ambition threw me down Warring in Heav'n against Heav'n's matchless King: Ah wherefore! he deserv'd no such return From me. whom he created... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...the God Of this new World; at whose sight all the Stars Hide thir diminisht heads; to thee I call, 35 But with no friendly voice, and add thy name 0 Sun,...Sphere; Till Pride and worse Ambition threw me down 40 Warring in Heav'n against Heav'n's matchless King: Ah wherefore! he deserv'd no such return From... | |
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