 Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.  Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 338by John Milton - 1750Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...all ye creatures to extol Him first, 'Him last, Him midst, and without end. 8. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn. Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that... | |
 | George Crabb - English language - 1826 - 736 pages
...narrow views beyond the tomb, And çivc an earnest of a life to come. Jenynf. Fairest of staiB last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Siirr/i.'f./¿'r of tiny that crown'st the smiling morn, With thy bright circlet praise him in i In... | |
 | John Cole - 1827 - 166 pages
...join all ye creatures to extol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end. Faireit of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...all ye creatures to extol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, la' t in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that... | |
 | William Enfield - Elocution - 1827 - 412 pages
...all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, last ill the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, thar... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...depression of pitch, you add quick movement, you form the parenthetical modulation. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, (If better thou belong not to the dawn, • \ Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling mora I With thy bright circlet) praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - Criticism - 1915 - 504 pages
...all the Creatures, to extol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end. Fairest of Stars, last in the Train of Night, If better thou belong not to the Dawn, Sure Pledge of Day, that crown'st the smiling Morn With thy bright Circlet, praise him in thy Sphere, While Day arises, that... | |
 | Willard Higley Durham - Criticism - 1915 - 502 pages
...all the Creatures, to extol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end. Fairest of Stars, last in the Train of Night, If better thou belong not to the Dawn, Sure Pledge of Day, that crown'st the smiling Morn With thy bright Circlet, praise him in thy Sphere, While Day arises, that... | |
 | Andrew Cecil Bradley - 1915 - 288 pages
...trifles, it is because she holds it,' etc., the use of ' better ' being somewhat like Milton's in ' last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn,' Par. Lost, V. 167. 16. ' tears ' : this suggests the metaphor of the next section, with which cf. xv1.... | |
 | Lane Cooper - Greece - 1917 - 330 pages
...Milton. Again in the Fifth Book of Paradise Lost the Morning Star is addressed as Fairest of Stars, last in the train of Night, If better thou belong not to the Dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown 'st the smiling Morn With thy bright circlet.88 Of this passage the words 'last in the train... | |
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