Earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, 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... Milton's Paradise lost, a poem. With prefatory characters of the several ... - Page 195by John Milton - 1767Full view - About this book
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| John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 318 pages
...great Maker then, In goodness and in power preeminent : Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, 230 From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know. While thus 1 call'd, and strayed I knew not whither, From where I first drew air, and first beheld This happy... | |
| John Milton - Bible - 1826 - 312 pages
...Tell, if ye saw, how I came thus, how here ?— Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power preeminent: Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, 280 From whom I have tha^ thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know. While thus I call'd, and strayed... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1826 - 840 pages
...some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent: Tell me, how may I know liim, how adore, I London, where he was put apprentice to a silkBur. A few 1 am happier than I know.1 — While thus I call'd, and stray'd I knew not whither. From where I first... | |
| Thomas Brown - Intellect - 1826 - 522 pages
..."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."* Refined as this... | |
| Bible - 1827 - 264 pages
...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. — While thus I called, and strayed I knew not whither, From where I first drew air, and first beheld This happy light... | |
| Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent : Tell me, how may 1 know him, how adore From whom I have, that thus I move and live, And feel...I am happier than I know? While thus I call'd, and stray'd, I knew not whither, From wherel first drew air, and first beheld This happy light, when answer... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...some great Maker then, In goodness, as in power preeminent ; Tel1 me how I may know him, how adore, From whom I have, that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know." In this manner, a consideration of the relation in which we stand to God must satisfy us that it is... | |
| Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...teH, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here ? Not of myself; hy 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? While thus I call'd,... | |
| John Milton - 1829 - 426 pages
...Tell, if ye saw, ho« came I thus, how here? Not of myself; hy some great Maker then, In goodness ahd 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.' While thus I... | |
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