 | John Milton - English poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...great Maker then In goodness and in power pre-eminent. Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, 280 From whom I have that thus I move and live, 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... | |
 | Jill Kraye, Kraye Jill, Cambridge University Press - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 350 pages
...Milton's Adam asks Raphael the question that most stirs him and that most displays his buoyant reverence Tell me, how may I know him, how adore From whom I...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1998 - 1494 pages
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 | John Milton - 1998 - 1494 pages
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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... 
