 Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before...  Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books - Page 2by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Clare L. Spark - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 756 pages
...God-given moral principle, Milton asks for a steady hand: ... I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above...pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. Milton faced the dilemma that persists today in the hearts and heads of every independent intellectual,... | |
 | Victoria Silver - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 432 pages
...his "adventurous song" superseding both ancient and modern exponents of the epic convention—"That with no middle flight intends to soar / Above the...pursues / Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme" (LM 1.13-16). Yet as the narrative proceeds, another aspect presents itself to this seemingly shameless... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 372 pages
...Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos: Or if Sion Hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's Brook that flow'd Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous Song [I, 6-IS] The references are to Moses as Prophet (that is, one who foresees and shows the people the... | |
 | Amélie Rorty - Good and evil - 2001 - 376 pages
...Heav'ns and Earth Rose out (A Chaos'. Or if Sion Hill Delight thee more, and Stloa's Brook that flow'd Fast by the Oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous Song, [W]ith speedy works th' Arch-fiend [thus] repli'd. . . . fT]o be weak is miserable Doing or Suffering:... | |
 | John Strachan - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 212 pages
...heavens and the earth Rose out of chaos; or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues... | |
 | Catherine Maxwell - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 292 pages
...those moments where Milton speaks of his inspired visionary flights heavenwards — ‘my adventurous song / That with no middle flight intends to soar / Above the Aonian mount' (1.13—15), ‘above the Olympian hill I soar, / Above the flight of Pegasean wing' ¿ In these moments... | |
 | Eva Hänssgen - Classical literature - 2003 - 300 pages
...heav'ns and earth 10 Rose out of Chaos; or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid...advent'rous song. That with no middle flight intends to soar 15 Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou,... | |
 | Ronald Paulson - Art - 2003 - 460 pages
...the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, I thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous Song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhyme. (1.4—16) The Son of... | |
 | Joseph A. Dane - Literary Criticism - 2003 - 264 pages
...and Earth Rofe out of Chaos: Or if Sion hill 10 Delight thee more, and Sioa's brook that flow'd FaR by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous fong, That with no middle flight intends to foar Above th' Aonian mount, while it purfuàs ‘5 Things... | |
 | David Loewenstein - Literary Collections - 2004 - 160 pages
...subsequent lines describing his advent'rous Song. That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th' Aonian Mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in Prose or Rhyme. The image of flight here (we think of Satan's own adventurous flight in the poem, as well as the presumptuous... | |
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