 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 830 pages
...hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; 1 thence |nvoke thy the swift floods : as armies at the call Ol' trumpet...standard ; so the watery throng, Wave rotting after BOOK L And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; 1 thence Invoke Ihy pointed promontory's top, Far unattemptcd yet in prose or rhyme D Mother. MILTON. BOOK I. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that do>l prefer... | |
 | Eliza Slater - 1843 - 238 pages
...the lips of Haephaestion. He knew that the slightest hint would secure his friend's silence. TRUTH. O, Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples, the upright heart and pure. MILTON. r |"^RUTH is the most beautiful of all things, and the JL love of it so characteristic of a... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1843 - 596 pages
...unlearned of spectators could not well avoid perceiving the scope and aim of this " Adventurous theme, that with no middle flight Intends to soar above the Aonian mount." Leaving all the merits of art out of view, we may naturally expect his sympathy in a work devoted to... | |
 | William Henry Bartlett - Jerusalem - 1844 - 298 pages
...hill Delight ihee 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 : " and again, in the touching description of his blindness, Book iii., " Thee, Sion, and the flowery... | |
 | Religion - 1845 - 600 pages
...ievere mental effort, or the imagination in an adventurous song, . That with no middle flight presumes to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme, the Sabbath is designed to furnish for each and all these, a season for repose. It is presumed that... | |
 | Religion - 1845 - 1174 pages
...«evere mental effort, or the imagination in an adventurous song, That with no middle flight presumes to soar Above the Aonian mount, •while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme, the Sabbath is designed to furnish for each and all these, a season for repose. It is presumed that... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...hill3 Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God,4 I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount,5 while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.6 And chiefly thou, O SPIRIT ! that... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.* * And chiefly thou, 0 Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me — what in me is dark Illumine, what low, raise and support. MILTON. Father of light and life ! thou... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar 15 Above the Aoniau mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, 0 Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st.... | |
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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 Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before... 
