 | John Milton - Education - 1928 - 402 pages
...came I thus, how here? Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent. Tell me, how may I know Him, how adore, From Whom...and live, And feel that I am happier than I know!" PI 'When suddenly stood at my head a dream, Whose inward apparition gently moved My fancy to believe... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...I thus, how here ! Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power prae-eminent. Tell me. how may I know him, how adore. From whom...feel that I am happier than I know ! ' While thus I called, and strayed I knew not whither, From where I first drew air, and first beheld This happy light,... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...been self-created: Not of my self; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power praeeminent; Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom...that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier then I know. [8.278-82] Then he shows his dignity and his boldness as he tells how he has reasoned... | |
 | David Quint - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 448 pages
...came I thus, how here? Not of my self; by some great maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent; Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom...and live, And feel that I am happier than I know. (8.273-82) Adam does not make the mistake of identifying the sun itself as his creator, as Satan will... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 1994 - 630 pages
...great Maker then In goodness and in power pre-eminent. Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, 280 From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know?" While thus 1 called, and strayed I knew not whither, From where I first drew air, and first beheld This happy... | |
 | Jill Kraye - History - 1996 - 350 pages
...Milton's Adam asks Raphael the question that most stirs him and that most displays his buoyant reverence Tell me, how may I know him, how adore From whom I...that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier then I know (Paradise Lost, VIII, lines 280-2) - a Latin syntax wells up and subsides within lines... | |
 | Robert A. Erickson - Literary Collections - 1997 - 304 pages
...pure feeling that he puts into words when he inferred that some great maker had given him the gift "that thus I move and live, / And feel that I am happier than I know" (8.281-82). If Adam has learned, in his conversation with Raphael, that the "prime Wisdom" is to know... | |
 | Judith A. Stein - Bible - 1999 - 180 pages
...came I thus, how here? Not of my self; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power praeeminent; Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom...that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier then I know. (VIII, 2776*) Obedience must be freely given, but God helps His creatures perfect their... | |
 | Karen L. Edwards - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 284 pages
...self; by some great maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent; Tell me, how may I know h1m, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know. (/'/- vm. 273-82) The self-quotation ends here. The Adam of book v1n resumes the narrative: While thus... | |
 | Desiree Hellegers - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 250 pages
...came I thus, how here? Not of myself; by some great Maker then? In goodness and in power preeminent; Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom...and live, And feel that I am happier than I know. (277— 8z) From his experience of his own body and of nature, Adam concludes that he did not create... | |
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Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent: Tell me how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know... 
