 | Eleanor Cook - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 318 pages
...end of the spectrum of echo, and so unnoticed, occurs in the opening lines of Paradise Lost (1 7-19): And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me. . . . I think Milton must be remembering the full text from the Beatitudes in Matthew,... | |
 | Julia M. Walker - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 236 pages
...geography — are enacted in Milton's poem only seven lines after he invokes the authority of Moses: And chiefly Thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all Temples th' upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou know'st; Thou from the first Wast present, and with mighty wings outspread Dove-like... | |
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Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the... 
