 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 Seiten
...sole dominion, like the God Of this new world ; at whose sight, all the stars . Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams. Parad. Lost, b. 4. Here pronouncing the pronoun thy, like... | |
 | William Banks - 1823 - 462 Seiten
...thy sole dominion, like the God Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, O, sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell. How... | |
 | John Milton - 1985 - 468 Seiten
...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;...State 1 fell, how Glorious once above thy Sphere; Till Pride and worse Ambition threw me down. Warring in Heaven, against Heaven's Glorious King. 12... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 Seiten
...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,...from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Spheare . . . [4.32-39] We cannot fail to recall how the warmth of the sun shining on the blind poet... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 Seiten
...soliloquy, an example of a prayer that does not work. Satan's invocation perverts the convention - "to thee I call / But with no friendly voice, and add thy name / O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams" (IV. 35-37). This call receives no answer. Soon the "prayer"... | |
 | Vera J. Camden - 1989 - 276 Seiten
...Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue. (17-26) 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring...state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down; Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless king! (37-41)... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 Seiten
...thy sole dominion like the God Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice,...state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king . . ."... | |
 | Robert L. Patten - 1992 - 540 Seiten
...addresses an irradiated image of the prince regent with words adapted from Book IV of Paradise Lost: "How I hate thy beams, that bring to my remembrance from what state I fell." Those beams are labeled with the names of the victorious allied leaders, Wellington being... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1993 - 162 Seiten
...23-26) Satan hates beams that only remind him of his paralysis of the will: "to thee I call, ... O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / 1 fell' ' (IV. 35 - 39). The sun inspires memory of his loss, but no ritual recompense, not in mourning - which... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 Seiten
...procreation writhes with hateful envy at the memory of his own happily procreative state in Heaven: "I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / 1 fell" (4.37-39). Satan lost this state because he abused his procreative powers. He confesses that he "seduc'd"... | |
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O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee... 
