 | Mrs. Barbauld (Anna Letitia) - 1849 - 484 sidor
...diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice ; and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere." This speech is, I think, the finest that is ascribed to... | |
 | 1909 - 502 sidor
...diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 sidor
...diminish'd heads ! to thee I call, — But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 214 Ah ! wherefore ?— He deserv'd no such return From me, whom he created what 1 was In that bright... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 sidor
...thir diminisht heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Spheare . . . [4.32-39] We cannot fail to recall how the warmth... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 sidor
...hates beams that only remind him of his paralysis of the will: "to thee I call, ... O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / I fell" (IV. 35-39). The sun inspires memory of his loss, but no ritual recompense, not in mourning... | |
 | Vera J. Camden - 1989 - 276 sidor
...is, and what must be Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue. (17-26) 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down; Warring in... | |
 | Robert L. Patten - 1992 - 540 sidor
...addresses an irradiated image of the prince regent with words adapted from Book IV of Paradise Lost: "How I hate thy beams, that bring to my remembrance from what state I fell." Those beams are labeled with the names of the victorious allied leaders, Wellington being... | |
 | Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 sidor
...diminished heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in... | |
 | Clay Daniel - 1994 - 194 sidor
...procreation writhes with hateful envy at the memory of his own happily procreative state in Heaven: "I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / 1 fell" (4.37-39). Satan lost this state because he abused his procreative powers. He confesses that... | |
 | William Riley Parker - 1996 - 708 sidor
...diminished heads, to Thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down Warring in... | |
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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... 
