 Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.  T. Lucreti Cari De rerum natura libri sex - Pagina 282door Titus Lucretius Carus - 1884 - 385 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Davies Baldwin - 1863 - 812 pagina’s
...INTKODUCTION, PRINCIPLES. "Hold my right hand. Almighty." " I here InToke thy aid to my adventurous theme, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the...mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme, * * * * What in me is dark, Illumine; what ia low, raise and support; That to the hight of... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1863 - 826 pagina’s
...posterity to know, he counteth it their interest." Or with Milton: — " My adventurous song. Which, with no middle flight, intends to soar • Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattcmptcd yut in prose or rhyme." Nursed in the schools, where as yet physical science was but a... | |
 | Birmingham central literary assoc - 1879 - 456 pagina’s
...observe his recreation. In the former we are carried upward by the force of his genius, — " That \vnli no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian...mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme." But in the latter effusions we come down from this supernatural elevation to the calm quiet... | |
 | 1852 - 798 pagina’s
...thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to ny adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aouian monnt, while it pursues Things nnattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit,... | |
 | 1883 - 228 pagina’s
...past, and catch a glimpse of that which lies before. For goodly is thy home. "I thence Invoke thine aid to my adventurous song That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the vKonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme." Eighty-six ! how much that... | |
 | Thomas O'Gorman - 1988 - 184 pagina’s
...Chaos: or, if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit,... | |
 | David Loewenstein, James Turner - 1990 - 308 pagina’s
...of, the anxieties to which his self-divided ambition - to lose his voice and to celebrate that loss ("my adventurous Song, / That with no middle flight intends to soar / Above th' Aonian Mount") - makes him subject, or, rather makes of him the kind of subject he is, forever... | |
 | John Milton - 1994 - 630 pagina’s
...or, if Sion hill222 10 Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook223 that flowed Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th' Aonian mount,224 while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rime. And chiefly Thou, O... | |
 | David Armitage, Armand Himy, Quentin Skinner - 1998 - 300 pagina’s
...67-84. 17 Samuel Johnson, The Lives oj the English Poets, ed. George Birkbeck Hill, 3 vols. (Oxford, aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight...Mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme, (PL, 1, 13-16) The 'adventurous song' is a song about adventure, and which takes risks, especially... | |
 | Andrew Carpenter - 1998 - 650 pagina’s
...mimick: to represent or describe. 3. The second couplet probably echoes Milton's Paradise Lost i. 12-16: 'I thence / Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song....while it pursues / Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.' 4 maids of the woods, ie the muses. The Num'rous Crowd, with wonder and delight. At once... | |
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