 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 6by John Milton - 1903 - 372 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Joseph Ivimey - Poets, English - 1833 - 422 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 advent'rous song, That with no middle flight attempts to soar Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unatlempted yet in prose or rhyme.... | |
 | Michael Russell - Palestine - 1833 - 350 pages
...heavens and earth Rose out of chaos; or, if Zion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song." Paradise Lost, book i. meditation—' By the rivers we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.'... | |
 | John Milton - 1834 - 526 pages
...heav'ns and earth Rose out of Chaos; or if Sion hill 10 Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid...song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues 15 Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1835 - 180 pages
...dabit Schmid ad Horat. 1. c. addas Miltonum Par. L. i. 12. " 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." 10 2. Soto] Planta pedis. Varro de RR 1. 47. "Solum enim hominis exitium herbas, et semitae fundamentum."... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - Middle East - 1835 - 354 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 advent'rous song. Lines which M. Delille has thus magnificently rendered: Toi done qui, celebrant les merreilles des... | |
 | Child rearing - 1835 - 350 pages
...heavens and earth Rose out of chaos; or, if Zion hill * Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song." Paradise Lost, book 1. meditation—' By the rivers we sat down and wept when we remembered Zion.'... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - Life - 1835 - 370 pages
...didst invest '' The rising world of waters dark and deep, " Won from the void and formless infinite." " And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer *' Before all temples the upright heart and pure, " Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first " Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread... | |
 | Sarah Stickney Ellis - English fiction - 1835 - 754 pages
...didst invest " The rising world of waters dark and deep, " Won from the void and formless infinite." " And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer " Before all temples the upright heart and pure, " Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first " Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young, Thomas Gray, James Beattie, William Collins - English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...and Earth Rose out of Chaos: or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flowed Fa«* by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to...mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in proec or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, О Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 260 pages
...posterity to know, he counteth it their interest." Or with Milton :— " My adventurous song, Which, with no middle flight, intends to soar Above the Aonian...pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme." Nursed in the schools, where as yet physical science was but a ridiculous collection of vague theories... | |
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