| Frederick ROWTON - Debates and debating - 1846 - 366 pages
...pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble." Again ; hear the Spirit in Comus : " 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... | |
| Charles Wentworth Upham - America - 1847 - 72 pages
...poet, whose own genius was translated, by the contemplation of God, into the divinest nature : — " Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach you...virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her." This elevation of the habitual promptings of the ordinary actions and familiar duties of daily life... | |
| Maria Jane McIntosh - Cousins - 1847 - 284 pages
...excellent Italian master to attend them. I CHAPTER IV. " 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." Coma. TIME glided rapidly away, rapidly to Mrs. Elliot, who had found new reason for her favorite indulgences,... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1847 - 712 pages
...Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. -houses, and churches, it is because those are the dormitories of the dead, w ye how to climb Higher than the sphcry chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to... | |
| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1847 - 712 pages
...comers of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Lore Virtue; she alone is free: She can teach ye hat you ought to take that course As we take you, for better Неатеп itself wmild stoop to her. Нотапм of MUton'e House at Forest НШ, near Orford ;... | |
| Edward Everett - Bible - 1848 - 586 pages
...poet, whose own genius was translated, by the contemplation of God, into the divinest nature : — " Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach you...virtue feeble were. Heaven itself would stoop to her." This elevation of the habitual promptings of the ordinary actions and familiar duties of daily life... | |
| England - 1849 - 822 pages
...shown in the creative and symbolic, as exemplified in his poetic conception of Virtue from Milton— " She can teach you how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven iuelf would stoop to her." If we believe genius to be an inspiring spirit, we may contemplate it hereafter... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. a fa, &c. To pass our tedious hours away, We throw a merry main ; Or else a ye how to climb Higher than the splicry chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
| 1856 - 666 pages
...head j! by the closing lines in Comus, uttered by the Good Spirit who rescued the captive lady — Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery clime : Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
| Scotland - 1849 - 864 pages
...shown in the creative and symbolic, as exemplified in his poetic conception of Virtue from Milton— " She can teach you how to climb Higher than the sphery chime j Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.'' If we believe genius to be an inspiring... | |
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