 | Diane Kelsey McColley - 1993 - 336 pages
...faith, by the "intellectual ray" undergoing the poem's purgative process that increases its acuity. Fairest of Stars, last in the train of Night, If better...thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown 'st the smiling Mom With thy bright Circlet, praise [God] in thy Sphere While day arises, that... | |
 | Robert Taylor - 1996 - 728 pages
...conceived, of those words : ' The dew of thy birth is ot the. womb of the morning.' ' Fairest of Ktarf, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pletl$fe of day thnt crcwn'st the smiling morn With the bright circlet.' As the same Jesus is expressly... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 pages
...Heav'n; On Earth join all ye Creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. 165 Fairest of Stars, last in the train of Night, If better...Sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of Prime. 170 Thou Sun, of this great World both Eye and Soul, Acknowledge him thy Greater, sound his praise... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, lasr in the train of night,0 If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge...sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. 170 Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - 2003 - 388 pages
...t'our intelli- Heaven in the Iliad XXII, 318. In the genee. pre-sunrise sky it is Lucifer, the lightIf better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of...Sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of Prime. 170 Thou Sun, of 1this great World both Eye and Soul, Acknowledge him thy Greater, sound his praise... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - 2005 - 553 pages
...only to strengthen our conviction that he was both a great and afgood man. DANTE (JANUARY 1824) v " Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better...thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crowtt'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet."-1— MILTON. IN a review of Italian literature,... | |
 | Steve Clark, Masashi Suzuki - 2006 - 362 pages
...Satan's angry lament, but Adam's morning hymn of praise, a hymn which explicitly sets God above the sun: 'Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, / Acknowledge him thy greater' (V:171— 4). By contrast, Wheatley's poem sets the sun above all, and just as in Blake's poem, shows... | |
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Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. 
