| Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - Christianity - 1858 - 580 pages
...the last and lowest degree of unmanliness. J lark how the good Spirit in Milton's Comus sings : — " Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue — she...free ; She can teach you how to climb Higher than the ephery clime ; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her." Let this be a settled... | |
| Frederick Rowton - Debates and debating - 1850 - 334 pages
...Spirit in Comus : " Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. V 4 She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if...Virtue feeble were Heaven itself would stoop to her!" How exquisite is his reference to " The virtuous mind that ever walks attended By a strong-siding champion,... | |
| Frederick Rowton - Debates and debating - 1850 - 334 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 ca# teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were Heaven itself would... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 602 pages
...Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach thee how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
| Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. 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... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 594 pages
...Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach thee how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
| Samuel Ware Fisher - Young men - 1852 - 394 pages
...life everlasting. " Mortals that would follow me, i 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." THE PLAY-HOUSE. ACTS xiii, 8, 9, 10. But Elymas the Sorcerer (for so is his name by interpretation),... | |
| John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime ; Or if...virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. .-!._••_ "ii ' ARCADES. • PART OF A MASK, OR ENTERTAINMENT, PRESENTED TO THE COUNTESS DOWAGER... | |
| English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is tree : She can teach ye how to climli I0SO PARADISE LOST, BOOK I. THE ARGUMENT. The first Book proposes, first in brief, the whole subject, Man's... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...marble hero stands, built of such basis, While they recoil and wound the shooter's face. Beaumont. Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue: she alone...can teach you how to climb Higher than the sphery clime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Milton. Virtue may be assail'd,... | |
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