 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 826 pages
...Things unattemptcd yet in prose or rhyme D Mother. MILTON. BOOK I. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that do>l u.i (G;,' e/& # 4 ?\ { as 9- y ; Ȗ the lir-i Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss.... | |
 | Eliza Slater - 1843 - 238 pages
...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... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...flows, but never bursting out into irregular violence. Example of 'Effusion'. " But chiefly Thou, O Spirit ! that dost prefer, Before all temples, the...upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st." The ' effusive' style avoids every thing abrupt or sudden in the formation of sound, and swells gradually... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." Reverence: "And chiefly thou, O Spirit! that dost prefer, Before all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest:" — Awe : " The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain While I gaze upward to thee.... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...the Aonian mount,5 while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.6 And chiefly thou, O SPIRIT ! that dost prefer Before all temples the upright...and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowst ; thou from the first Was present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding7 on the vast abyss,... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...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...and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st. Thou from the first 20 Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like satst brooding on the vast abyss,... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 864 pages
...author has fulfilled his own high purpose, expressed in the opening invocation P ' And chiofly Uiou, O Spirit ! that dost prefer, Before all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know st ; Uiou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...fulfilled his own high purpose, expressed in the opening invocation ? 1 And chiefly thou, 0 Bplril ! that dost prefer, Before all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thoa from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the... | |
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...the Altaian mount, while it pursues 15 Things unattempted y<rt in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright...and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st , Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 90 Doveliko sat'st brooding on the vast abyss,... | |
 | John Milton - 1849 - 650 pages
...the Aiinian mount, while it pursues I6 (Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer ! Before all temples the...and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st , Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread 20 Dovelike sat'st brooding on the vast abyss,... | |
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