 O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how...  Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy ... - Page 286by Edward Burnett Tylor - 1873Full view - About this book
 | John Milton, Edward Young - 1848 - 600 pages
...full-blazing sun, Which now sat high in his meridian tower : 30 Then, much revolving, thus in sighs began : O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st...from thy sole dominion like the God Of this new world ; at whose sight all the starl Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thec I call, 35 But with no friendly... | |
 | Catherine Sinclair - Wales - 1848 - 478 pages
...attributes to his awful character that sublime apostrophe to the orb of day beginning thus: — " Oh! thou, that with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st...thy sole dominion, like the God Of this new world " I am told that on the shores of the Persian Gulf, thousands of the followers of Zoroaster assemble... | |
 | Raymond Dexter Havens - English poetry - 1922 - 746 pages
...Omnipotent to arms. O Prince, O Chief of many throned powers, That led the embattled Seraphim to war. O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World.1 3. INVERSION OF THE NATURAL ORDER OF WORDS AND PHRASES, one of Milton's many Latinisms: Them... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...tower : Then, much revolving, thus in sighs began : — " O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...ever fallen !" Milton. 19. SATAN'S SOLILOQUY, ON FIRST BEHOLDING THE SUN, AND NEW-CREATED UNIVERSE. O THOU ! that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st,...thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ! at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ! to thee I call, — But with no friendly... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...God, but simply addresses the physical planet in terms that convey an implicit paganism, sun-worship: O thou that with surpassing Glory crownd, Look'st...thy sole Dominion like the God Of this new World; at whose sight all the Starrs Hide thir diminisht heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice,... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 396 pages
...version of Satan's address to man in Book IV of the final poem: O thou that with surpassing glory crowned Look'st from thy sole dominion like the God Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice,... | |
 | John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...by the objects presented 3 us. (This observation also may be applied to his speech in the ninth *' O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like tlie God Of this new world, &c. [IV, 32-4] Led by the marks of power and goodness in the creation,... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 230 pages
...directly in a scene of personal confession and of critical judgment (Carey and Fowler, eds., bk 4, n 30): O thou that with surpassing Glory crown'd, Look'st...thy sole Dominion like the God Of this new World; at whose sight all the Stars Hide thir diminisht heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice,... | |
 | Mervyn Nicholson - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 284 pages
...in Book 4 of Paradise Lost, especially its opening lines: "O thou that with surpassing glory crowned Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly... | |
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