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" Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent: Tell me how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know... "
Paradise lost a poem, with a biogr. and critical account of the author [by E ... - Page 174
by John Milton - 1789
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The Prelude

Nigel Wood - 1993 - 232 pages
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John Milton

John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 360 pages
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The Works of John Milton: With an Introduction and Bibliography

John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...I thus, how here? Not of myself;437 by some great Maker then In goodness and in power pre-eminent. Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, 280 From whom...And feel that I am happier than I know?" While thus 1 called, and strayed I knew not whither, From where I first drew air, and first beheld This happy...
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Regaining Paradise Lost

Thomas N. Corns - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 176 pages
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Milton's Burden of Interpretation

Dayton Haskin - Literary Criticism - 1994 - 352 pages
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Paradise Lost: The Novel

Joseph Lanzara - Fiction - 1994 - 264 pages
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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism

Jill Kraye - History - 1996 - 350 pages
...most stirs him and that most displays his buoyant reverence Tell me, how may I know him, how adore From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier then I know (Paradise Lost, VIII, lines 280-2) - a Latin syntax wells up and subsides within lines...
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The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism

Jill Kraye - History - 1996 - 342 pages
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Milton Studies

Labriola - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 219 pages
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The Language of the Heart, 1600-1750

Robert A. Erickson - Literary Collections - 1997 - 304 pages
...pure feeling that he puts into words when he inferred that some great maker had given him the gift "that thus I move and live, / And feel that I am happier than I know" (8.281-82). If Adam has learned, in his conversation with Raphael, that the "prime Wisdom" is to know...
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