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" And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. 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. "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 242
1820
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Cyclopędia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions ...

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that hurches, it is because those are the dormitories of the dead, w ye how to climb Higher than the sphcry chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to...
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A Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams: Delivered at the ...

Edward Everett - Bible - 1848 - 586 pages
...poet, whose own genius was translated, by the contemplation of God, into the divinest nature : — " Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach you how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if virtue feeble were. Heaven itself would stoop to her." This elevation of the habitual...
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 1

Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free: She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the splicry chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop...
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The Juvenile companion, and Sunday-school hive [afterw.] The ..., Volumes 5-6

1856 - 666 pages
...the closing lines in Comus, uttered by the Good Spirit who rescued the captive lady — Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery clime : Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop...
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Lectures Delivered Before the Young Men's Christian Association ..., Volume 13

Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1858 - 580 pages
...lowest degree of unmanliness. J lark how the good Spirit in Milton's Comus sings : — " Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue — she alone is free ; She can teach you how to climb Higher than the ephery clime ; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her." Let this be a settled...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 1

Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...bow'd welkin slow doth bend; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach thee how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop...
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John Milton: A Biography. Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical ...

Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...bowed welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. 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...
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A cyclopędia of poetical quotations, arranged by H.G. Adams

Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...stands, built of such basis, While they recoil and wound the shooter's face. Beaumont. Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue: she alone is free: She can teach you how to climb Higher than the sphery clime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Milton. Virtue may be assail'd,...
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Eminent Characters of the English Revolutionary Period

Edwin Owen Jones - 1853 - 258 pages
...with musky wing. About the cedar'd alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells. * # * * * Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach thee how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop...
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Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical ..., Page 109, Volume 2

John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; 3 Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop...
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