fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author by S. Johnson - Page 66by John Milton - 1807Full view - About this book
| Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent : Tell me, how may 1 know him, how adore From whom I have, that thus I move and live, And feel...than I know? While thus I call'd, and stray'd, I knew not whither, From wherel first drew air, and first beheld This happy light, when answer none return'd,... | |
| Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...ye^hat live and move, fair ereatures teH, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here ? Not of myself; hy 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? While thus I call'd,... | |
| Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 654 pages
...some great Maker then, In goodness, as in power preeminent ; Tel1 me how I may know him, how adore, From whom I have, that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know." In this manner, a consideration of the relation in which we stand to God must satisfy us that it is... | |
| Robert Morehead - 1830 - 510 pages
...light, And tlinu, enlightened Earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell...how here ? Not of myself, by some great Maker then, &c. Paradise Lost, book viii. This quotation, too, illustrates happily enough, the position upon which... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 306 pages
...Woods, and Plains, And ye that live and move, fair Creatures, tell, 276 Tell, if ye saw, how I came thus, how here ? — Not of myself; by some great...preeminent : Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, 28C From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know. While thus... | |
| John Milton - 1831 - 290 pages
...live and move, fair Creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how I came thus, how here ? Not of myself; hy some great Maker then, In goodness and in power preeminent : 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. While thus I call'd,... | |
| Christianity - 1832 - 670 pages
...light, And them ealighlen'd earth, so fresh and gay. Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell,...myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in pow'r pre-eminent : Tell me, how i may know him, how adore, 1'rom whom I have that thus ] move and... | |
| John Milton - 1833 - 438 pages
...light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell,...pre-eminent; Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom 1 have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know. — « While thus... | |
| Christian life - 1847 - 600 pages
...light, And thou enlightened earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods and plains. And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell,...preeminent ; 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. The birth-day lesson... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...? Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in pow'r pre-eminent: Tell me, how I may know him, how adore, 280 From whom I have that thus...than I know." While thus I call'd, and stray'd I knew not whither, From where I first drew air, and first beheld This happy light; when, answer none rcturn'il,... | |
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