 | English language - 1928 - 922 pages
...deep emotion of worship address is made to the various works of his creation. We quote but a part: Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge...sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gained, and when thou fall'st, Moon, that now meet'st the orient... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of Stars, last in the train of Night, If better thou belong not to...sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gained, and when thou fall'st. Moon, that now meet'st the orient... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars ! last in the train of night, — If better thou belong not...his praise In thy eternal course ; both when thou climb'st, And when high noon hast gain'd, and when thou 221 With the fix'd stars, — fix'd in their... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 198 pages
...to them of the universe ; here rhetoric suggests the interrelatedness and formality of God's works: Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge...sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st And when high noon hast gained, and when thou fall'st . . . v 171. . . Iterative [=repeating]... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Biography & Autobiography - 1954 - 452 pages
...Milton, in Paradise Lost, refers to this double character and office of Venus : "Fairest of stars! last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to...sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime." Our Lord Jesus Christ calls Himself, "the bright and morning star." Whenever He comes into the soul,... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...allusions to the Tempter in the aubade. The morning star is asked to praise. Fairest of Stars, last in the train of Night, If better thou belong not to...Sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of Prime. (V. 166-70) Lucifer is no longer the last star of night; he is the "sure pledge of day." The effect... | |
 | Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - History - 1995 - 254 pages
...all ye Creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. 165 Fairest of Stars, last in the train of Night, If better thou belong not to...Sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of Prime. 170 Thou Sun, of this great World both Eye and Soul, Acknowledge him thy Greater, sound his praise... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 284 pages
...Maker. He and Eve address the sun in the same words he had first used, but to vastly different effect: Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge...sound his praise In thy eternal course, both when thou climb'st, Adam no longer demands that the sun tell him how to know and praise the Creator. He has read... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...all ye Creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. 165 Fairest of Stars, last in the train of Night, If better thou belong not to...Sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of Prime. 170 Thou Sun, of this great World both Eye and Soul, Acknowledge him thy Greater, sound his praise... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, lasr in the train of night,0 If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge...sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. 170 Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise... | |
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Angels: for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, last in the train... 
