| James Chapman - 286 pages
...that move In mystic dance, not without song, — resound His praise, — who out of darkness call'd up light. Air, and ye elements ! the eldest birth Of...that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky, or grey, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, — In honour to the world's great Author, rise... | |
| John Broadbent - 1973 - 364 pages
...chariot and guiding it. He has ennobled that more noble one, 'O all ye works of the Lord. . . ' But in: Ye mists and exhalations that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or grey, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold. . . Such a verse might well be ejected from... | |
| Bernhard Fabian, James E. Force, William Whiston, William Whiston - 458 pages
...without Song, refound His Praife, who out of Darknefs cali'd up Lights Air, and ye Elements, the eldeft Birth Of Nature's Womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual Circle, multiform ; and mix And nouriih all Things, let your ceafelefs Change Vary to our great Maker flul new Praife. Ye Mifts and... | |
| Regina M. Schwartz - 1988 - 160 pages
...without end. (V. 160-65) The hymn continues with the sun, the fixt stars, the air, the elements that "mix / And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change / Vary to our great Maker still new praise" and mists, plants, fountains, birds. Finally, it includes an allusion to the serpent. Yee that in Waters... | |
| Robert Brinkley, Keith Hanley - 1992 - 396 pages
...Like Wordsworth's ascending vapour, Milton's elements provide an unalienated expression of authorship: Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise From Hill or steaming Lake, duskie or grey. Till the Sun paint your fleecie skirts with Gold, In honour to the Worlds great Author... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 pages
...called up Light. Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth 180 Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion374 run Perpetual circle, multiform, and mix And nourish...that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or grey, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the World's great Author rise;... | |
| Charles H. Kahn - 1994 - 278 pages
...the order of the created world, Adam and Eve invoke Aire, and ye Elements the eldest birth Of Natures Womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual Circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things.2 The description of the act of creation itself follows of course the Hebrew account in Genesis,... | |
| Claude J. Summers, Ted-Larry Pebworth - 1995 - 254 pages
...fall'st. Moon, that now meet'st the orient Sun, now fli'st 175 Air, and ye Elements the eldest birth 180 Of Nature's Womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual...new praise. Ye Mists and Exhalations that now rise 185 From Hill or steaming Lake, dusky or grey, Till the Sun paint your fleecy skirts with Gold, In... | |
| J. B. Kuipers - 1999 - 398 pages
...— thereby making our world so much larger. jbk Aire, and ye Elements the eldest birth Of Natures Womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual Circle, multiform, and mix And nourish all things, let your ceasless change Varie to our great Maker still new praise. Paradise Lost, Book V John Milton Contents... | |
| John Milton - 2003 - 1012 pages
...called up light. Air, and ye elements the eldest birth 180 Of nature's womb, that in quaternion run0 Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix And nourish all...still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations that now rise0 From hill or steaming lake, dusky or grey, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In... | |
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