| Richard Terry, Reader in Eighteenth-Century English Literature Richard Terry - 2000 - 300 sidor
...deity, are modelled on the 'enthusiastic' invocations of Theocles' 'Meditations': Hail, Mighty Being1. Universal Soul Of Heaven and Earth! Essential Presence,...Knee, to Thee my Thoughts Continual climb, who, with a Master-Hand, Hast the great Whole into Perfection touch'd. (11. 508-12) It is not difficult to find... | |
| Howard Malcom - 2004 - 348 sidor
...vaster, sublimer fields for thought. " Hail, source of being ! Universal soul Of heaven and earth 1 Essential Presence, hail ! To Thee I bend the knee...hand. Hast the great whole into perfection touched." How ennobling and purifying is the study of astronomy ! How delicious the Christian's hope of soon... | |
| G. Gabrielle Starr - 2004 - 318 sidor
...Milton are key.'6 The laud of the sun in Spring works thus, using a Miltonic model of personal speech: Hail, Source of Being! Universal Soul Of heaven and earth! Essential Presence, hail! To dice I bend the knee; to thee my thoughts Continual climb, who with a master-hand Has the great whole... | |
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