 | Laconics - 1829 - 352 ページ
...in) task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend; And from thence can soar as...virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Epilogue, by the Spirit in Comus—Milton. DCCLXXXVII. He who thinks his place below him, will certainly... | |
 | John Milton - 1829 - 130 ページ
...seems to have supplied a pretty idea in 'Comus:' ' Mortals that would follow me! ' Love Virtue—she alone is free : ' She can teach ye how to climb, '...feeble were, ' Heaven itself would stoop to her.' And in the Essay on Education : ' we .shall conduct you to a hill-side, laborious indeed at the first ascent,... | |
 | William Godwin - 1830 - 376 ページ
...overperch" barriers insuperable to other powers; and, like the attendant spirit in Comus, He can fly, or he can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the...thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. In a word, I would not suffer myself to be persuaded that Isabella ScherbatofF and I were not destined... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 354 ページ
...can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, 1015 And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of...Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb toco Higher than the sphery chime : Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. 1017... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 ページ
...The great winding-sheets that bury all things in oblivion are two ; deluges and earthquakes. Bacon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone...teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime.— Comus. Day. Iv. Non. 2. Bp.(W.) Thomas, 1613,Bristo/. Walter Charleton, 1619, Shepton-Mallet. Dr.Wm.Borlase,1696,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 364 ページ
...Virtues imply struggles ; hence the propriety of a celebrated passage in Milton's ' Comus :' — ' Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone...Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.' The strongest tea in China (the yu-tien) scarcely colours the water. It has been said, that a thing... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 ページ
...we can gratify it with at present, serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires. FRANKLIN. MORTALS that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone...Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. TWAS but an instant he restrain'd That fiery barb, so sternly rein'd ; Twas but a moment that he stood,... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 ページ
...can fly, or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, 1015 And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of...she alone is free ; She can teach ye how to climb 1020 1003 Assyrian] Tickell and Penton read ' the Cyprian Queen. wn corners] Macbeth, a. 3. B. 5. '... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 ページ
...can fly, or I can run Quickly to the grecn earth's end, Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, 1015 And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of...she alone is free ; She can teach ye how to climb 1020 looa Jwfriari] Tickell and Fenton read ' the Cyprian Queen. M« corners] Macbeth, a. 3. s. 5.... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 ページ
...by the touch of her " chaste palms moist and cold" the spirit epiloguizes, and the drama . ends. " Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue, she alone...Higher than the sphery chime, Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her." And it is just because virtue is frail that heaven has stooped to... | |
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Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. 
