 | William Harrison Ainsworth - Popular literature - 1842
...friend looked Milton's lines to overflowing: — " I thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous story, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th'...'while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme !" " Gentlemen," he said, " I resume : — The stockbroker was bewildered, but before any explanation... | |
 | John Milton - 1843
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 | 1843
...heavens and earth Rose out of chaos. Or, if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook, that flow'd 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... | |
 | John Milton - 185?
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 | John Milton - 1843
...heavens and earth Rose out of chaos : or, if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd 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... | |
 | Daniel Gardner - Constitutional law - 1844 - 315 pages
...great Fountain of Light. Humbly invoking celestial aid, in the language of Milton we would say : " 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,... | |
 | Charles Walker Connon - 1845 - 168 pages
...heavens and earth 10 Rose out of chaos. Or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid...advent'rous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar 15 Above the Aoniau mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou,... | |
 | Merritt Caldwell - Elocution - 1845 - 331 pages
...Invoke thy aid .... to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight .... intends to soar . . . 15 Above th' Aonian mount .... while it pursues . . . Things unattempted yet .... in prose or rhyme. 2. O Muse ! . . . . the causes and the crimes relate ; What goddess was provoked, .... and whence... | |
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