 O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how...  Paradiso perduto di Milton - Page 180by John Milton - 1852Full view - About this book
 | Mary C. Fenton - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 254 pages
...the future, these, he comes to realize, are inevitably tied to memory and to the truth he hates: "O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring...remembrance from what state / 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Spheare" (4.37-39). Thus he imagines his way to a future unconstrained by the necessity... | |
 | James Dougal Fleming - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 228 pages
...thy sole Dominion like the God Of this new World; at whose sight all the Starrs Hide thir diminisht heads: to thee I call, But with no friendly voice,...my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Spheare. (4.32-39) Satan curses where Adam rejoices, and that is important. It is more... | |
 | Wendy Olmsted - Literary Criticism - 2008 - 313 pages
...psychology by hating what is intrinsically lovable and attractive. He hates the sun (and the good) : ... to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add...my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere. (IV.35— 9) His hatred reverses the psychological terms that define emotion.... | |
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