 | John Milton - 1829 - 130 Seiten
...seems to have supplied a pretty idea in 'Comus:' ' Mortals that would follow me! ' Love Virtue—she alone is free : ' She can teach ye how to climb, '...feeble were, ' Heaven itself would stoop to her.' And in the Essay on Education : ' we .shall conduct you to a hill-side, laborious indeed at the first... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - 1832 - 548 Seiten
...oblivion are two ; deluges and earthquakes. Bacon. Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime.— Comus. Day. Iv. Non. 2. Bp.(W.) Thomas, 1613,Bristo/. Walter Charleton, 1619, Shepton-Mallet. Dr.Wm.Borlase,1696,... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 Seiten
...questions." The incomparable poem of' Comus' thus ends:— Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue; she alone is free ; She can teach ye how to climb Higher...Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. Thyer says, that "the moral of this poem is very finely summed up in the six concluding lines. The... | |
 | Cynosure - 1837 - 272 Seiten
...the more to inflame its insatiable desires. FRANKLIN. MORTALS that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher...Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. TWAS but an instant he restrain'd That fiery barb, so sternly rein'd ; Twas but a moment that he stood,... | |
 | Charles Bucke - 1837 - 364 Seiten
...a celebrated passage in Milton's ' Comus :' — ' Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher...Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.' The strongest tea in China (the yu-tien) scarcely colours the water. It has been said, that a thing... | |
 | André Jean Marie Hamon - 1839 - 292 Seiten
...an exemplar, that we can appreciate the full force o/Milton's exquisite homily — Love Virtue, she alone is free ; She can teach ye how to climb Higher...than the sphery chime : Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. ' There is only one portion of this most beautiful "drama of life,"... | |
 | British and foreign young men's society - 1839 - 216 Seiten
...cold" the spirit epiloguizes, and the drama . ends. " Mortals, that would follow me, Love Virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how to climb . Higher than the sphery chime, Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her." And it is just because virtue is frail that heaven has stooped to... | |
 | Fitz-Greene Halleck - 1840 - 372 Seiten
...thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher...Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. PARADISE LOST. Op Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste... | |
 | 1840 - 372 Seiten
...thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue ; she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher...than the sphery chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, ,. PARADISE LOST. OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 844 Seiten
...thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue, she alone is free : She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphcry chime ; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. SPEECH OF THE GENIUS OF... | |
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Mortals, that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone is free. She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or, if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. 
