 | 1842
...thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous story, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th* Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme!' '" Gentlemen,' he said, ' I resume : — The stock-broker was bewildered, but before any explanation... | |
 | William Harrison Ainsworth - Popular literature - 1842
...thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous story, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th' Aonian mount, 'while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme !" " Gentlemen," he said, " I resume : — The stockbroker was bewildered, but before any explanation... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 807 pages
...Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; 1 thence |nvoke thy aid to my adventurous song, at the call Ol' trumpet (for of armies thou hast...standard ; so the watery throng, Wave rotting after BOOK L And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815 - 1843 - 435 pages
...more they had passed a hundred yards a-hcad , and the sound of their movements was lost. CHAPTER XXV. And chiefly thou , O Spirit, that dost prefer, Before...upright heart and pure, Instruct me; for thou know'st. MILTOH. THE spot in which Carlo Giuntotardi had taken refuge is well known on the Sorrentinc shore... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1843 - 807 pages
...Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; 1 thence Invoke Ihy aid to my adventurous song, ar unattemptcd yet in prose or rhyme D Mother. MILTON. BOOK I. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that do>l prefer... | |
 | Eliza Slater - Conduct of life - 1843 - 196 pages
...the lips of Haephaestion. He knew that the slightest hint would secure his friend's silence. TRUTH. O, Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples, the upright heart and pure. MILTON. r |"^RUTH is the most beautiful of all things, and the JL love of it so characteristic of a... | |
 | Allan Cunningham - 1843
...unlearned of spectators could not well avoid perceiving the scope and aim of this " Adventurous theme, that with no middle flight Intends to soar above the Aonian mount." Leaving all the merits of art out of view, we may naturally expect his sympathy in a work devoted to... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 428 pages
...enlarging as it flows, but never bursting out into irregular violence. Example of 'Effusion'. " But chiefly Thou, O (Spirit ! that dost prefer, Before...upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st." The ' effusive' style avoids every thing abrupt or sudden in the formation of sound, and swells gradually... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 380 pages
...disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." Reverence: "And chiefly thou, O Spirit! that dost prefer, Before...the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou knowest:" — Awe : " The thoughts are strange that crowd into my brain While I gaze upward to thee.... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 432 pages
...flows, but never bursting out into irregular violence. Example of 'Effusion'. " But chiefly Thou, 0 Spirit! that dost prefer, Before all temples, the...upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st." The ' effusive' style avoids every thing abrupt or sudden in the formation of sound, and swells gradually... | |
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That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. 
