| Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 pages
...bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from thence caa soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, 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.' One cannot part with this... | |
| American essays - 1872 - 810 pages
...bowed welkin low 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... | |
| George Frederick Graham - 1857 - 372 pages
...friends, and fellows, whom to leave Is only hitter to him, only dying. Henry VIII., ii. 1. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climh Higher than the sphery chime ; Or, if Virtue feehle were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
| M E. Hammond - 1858 - 352 pages
...words of the attendant spirit died away in accents most musical, most melancholy : — " 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... | |
| Henry Reed - English literature - 1858 - 424 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 ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime, Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to... | |
| Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 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 ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
| John Milton - 1858 - 114 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... | |
| David Masson - 1859 - 714 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 ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeblo were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
| John Milton - 1860 - 134 pages
...welkin slow doth bend ; 1015 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 you how to climb 1020 Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. NOTES... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1860 - 624 pages
...the Muse, s for all the images of loveliness in which it may please her to disport : " Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Of if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
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