 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.  Florence - Page 211by M E. Hammond - 1858Full view - About this book
 | Henry Reed - English literature - 1855 - 424 pages
...Where the bow'd welkin slow doth bend, And from 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 you how to climb Higher than the sphery chime, Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
 | John Broadbent - Literary Criticism - 1973 - 364 pages
...paradisal region cut off from man's sight just as the music of the spheres is cut off from his hearing: Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach you how to climb Higher than the sphery chime; Or if virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 304 pages
...fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, but it ends with a Miltonic moral: Love virtue, she alone is free, She can teach ye how...than the sphery chime; Or, if virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. Comus is a remarkable performance. Its freshness, variety, sureness... | |
 | William Kerrigan - Literary Criticism - 1983 - 372 pages
...its meaning to "set forth" into a future that could possibly hold Paradise Lost. THE PROMISE OP JOVE Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone...Higher than the Sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. (1018-1023) "Here at last," Robert Martin Adams has written, expressing... | |
 | Judith Yarnall - Circe (Greek mythology) in literature - 1994 - 260 pages
...enticingly to a paradise "up in the broad fields of the sky." His message is that you too can follow if you "Love virtue, she alone is free, / She can teach ye how to climb / Higher than the sphery chime" (ll. 1018-20). Since the whole conceptual framework of the play suggests that repression is the better... | |
 | William Riley Parker - Poets, English - 1996 - 708 pages
...Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend, And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon. Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue; she alone...virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. (1012-23) It is time for the children to be put to bed. Judged by almost any standard, Milton's masque... | |
 | Abby A. Judson - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1996 - 232 pages
...that would follow me Love Virtue, she alone ie free : She can tea'ch you how to climb Far above von sphery chime ; Or, if Virtue feeble were Heaven itself would stoop to her." MILTON. CHAPTER IV. RELATIONS WITH THE OUTSIDE WOULD. Our soul, living and individual as it may be,... | |
 | Annabel Robinson - Biography & Autobiography - 2002 - 364 pages
...memory in later years was the beauty of Rupert as the Attendant Spirit, speaking the final benediction, Mortals, that would follow me Love Virtue; she alone...if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her.10 The whole event was watched by Harrison with searing emotions. To begin with, her attitude to... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend,0 And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.0 Mortals that would follow me, Love Virtue, she alone...She can teach ye how to climb Higher than the sphery chime;0 Or if Virtue feeble were, Heaven itself would stoop to her. ENGLISH POEMS ADDED IN (673 On... | |
 | Kristin A. Pruitt, Charles W. Durham - Literary Criticism - 2005 - 278 pages
...that such potential, national or individual, can be realized; the masque concludes with the moral, Mortals that would follow me, Love virtue, she alone...Higher than the Sphery chime; Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her. It is hardly surprising that Milton puts this warning in the same... | |
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