 | William Henry Bartlett - Jerusalem - 1844 - 298 pages
...Siloa's brook, that flowed Fast by the oracle of God : I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That, with no middle flight, intends to soar Above the Aonian mount : " and again, in the touching description of his blindness, Book iii., " Thee, Sion, and the flowery... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...intends to soar Above the Aonian mount,5 while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.6 And chiefly thou, O SPIRIT ! that dost prefer Before...Instruct me, for thou knowst ; thou from the first Was present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding7 on the vast abyss, And mad'st... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1845 - 410 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.... | |
 | English literature - 1845 - 864 pages
...author has fulfilled his own high purpose, expressed in the opening invocation P ' And chiofly Uiou, O Spirit ! that dost prefer, Before all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know st ; Uiou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding... | |
 | Religion - 1845 - 1174 pages
...«evere mental effort, or the imagination in an adventurous song, That with no middle flight presumes to soar Above the Aonian mount, •while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme, the Sabbath is designed to furnish for each and all these, a season for repose. It is presumed that... | |
 | Religion - 1845 - 600 pages
...ievere mental effort, or the imagination in an adventurous song, . That with no middle flight presumes to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme, the Sabbath is designed to furnish for each and all these, a season for repose. It is presumed that... | |
 | 1845 - 440 pages
...fulfilled his own high purpose, expressed in the opening invocation ? 1 And chiefly thou, 0 Bplril ! that dost prefer, Before all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thoa from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 176 pages
...Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar 15 Above the Aoniau mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, 0 Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st.... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.* * And chiefly thou, 0 Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples, the upright heart and pure, Instruct me — what in me is dark Illumine, what low, raise and support. MILTON. Father of light and life ! thou... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...aid .... to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight .... intends to soar . . . 15 Above th' Aonian mount .... while it pursues . . . Things unattempted yet .... in prose or rhyme. 2. O Muse ! .... the causes and the crimes relate ; What goddess was provoked and whence her hate,... | |
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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. 
