 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...  Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth ... - Page 256by John Milton - 1763Full view - About this book
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...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, and add thy name 0 Sun,...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
...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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