Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent: Tell me how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know... The Works of the English Poets: Milton - Página 240por Samuel Johnson - 1779Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 páginas
...some great Maker then, In goodness and in power praeeminent; Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier then I know. [8.273-82] So every part in this portion of the poem, extending from the hymn to light... | |
| David Quint - 1993 - 448 páginas
...some great maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent; Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know. (8.273-82) Adam does not make the mistake of identifying the sun itself as his creator, as Satan will... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 páginas
...I thus, how here? Not of myself;437 by some great Maker then In goodness and in power pre-eminent. Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, 280 From whom...And feel that I am happier than I know?" While thus 1 called, and strayed I knew not whither, From where I first drew air, and first beheld This happy... | |
| Jill Kraye - 1996 - 350 páginas
...most stirs him and that most displays his buoyant reverence Tell me, how may I know him, how adore From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier then I know (Paradise Lost, VIII, lines 280-2) - a Latin syntax wells up and subsides within lines... | |
| Robert A. Erickson - 1997 - 304 páginas
...pure feeling that he puts into words when he inferred that some great maker had given him the gift "that thus I move and live, / And feel that I am happier than I know" (8.281-82). If Adam has learned, in his conversation with Raphael, that the "prime Wisdom" is to know... | |
| Karen L. Edwards - 2005 - 284 páginas
...some great maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent; Tell me, how may I know h1m, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know. (/'/- vm. 273-82) The self-quotation ends here. The Adam of book v1n resumes the narrative: While thus... | |
| Judith A. Stein - 1999 - 180 páginas
...some great Maker then, In goodness and in power praeeminent; Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier then I know. (VIII, 2776*) Obedience must be freely given, but God helps His creatures perfect their... | |
| Desiree Hellegers - 2000 - 250 páginas
...some great Maker then? In goodness and in power preeminent; Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know. (277— 8z) From his experience of his own body and of nature, Adam concludes that he did not create... | |
| James Fieser - 2000 - 340 páginas
...goodness and in power pre-eminent. Tell me, how I may know him, how adore, From whom I have, that thus 1 move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know." Paradise Lost, vii. 273 Of the reality of his own life, motion, and existence, it is observahle that... | |
| Richard Jacobs - 2001 - 504 páginas
...great maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent; 280 Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know.' While thus I called, and strayed I knew not whither, From where I first drew air, and first beheld 285 This happy... | |
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