 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.  Specimens of the British Poets - Page 264by Thomas Campbell - 1844 - 716 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Bucke - Anecdotes - 1837 - 364 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | André Jean Marie Hamon - Bishops - 1839 - 292 pages
...contemplating such an exemplar, that we can appreciate the full force o/Milton's exquisite homily — Love Virtue, she alone is free ; She can teach ye...than the sphery chime : Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. ' There is only one portion of this most beautiful "drama of life,"... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and Joy : so Jove hath sworn. But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to...Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. PARADISE LOST. Op Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and Joy : so Jove hath sworn. But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to...than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, ,. PARADISE LOST. OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...side Two blissful twins are to be born, 1010 Youth and Joy : so Jove hath sworn. But now my task is spite of sorrow, 1020 Higher than the sphcry chime ; Or if VirtuB feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. PARADISE... | |
 | John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born, Youth and Joy ; so Jove hath sworn. But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly, or I can run, Quickly to...virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. ARCADES. PART OF A MASK, OR ENTERTAINMENT, PRESENTED TO THE COUNTESS DOWAGER OF DERBY, AT HAREFIELD,... | |
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