 Alas ! for him who insults me, who maligns and merits public execration ! For the divine law not only shields me from injury, but almost renders me too sacred to attack ; not indeed so much from the privation of my sight, as from the overshadowing of...  Memoirs of Christina, Queen of Sweden - Page 2by Henry Woodhead - 1863Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...behold nothing but himself. Alas ! for him who insults me, who maligns and merits public execration ! For the divine law not only shields me from injury...as from the overshadowing of those heavenly wings, which seem to have occasioned this obscurity ; and which, when occasioned, he is wont to illuminate... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 350 pages
...behold nothing but himself. Alas ! for him who insults me, who maligns and merits public execration ! For the Divine law not only shields me from injury,...as from the overshadowing of those heavenly wings, which seem to have occasioned this obscurity. To this I ascribe the more tender assiduities of my friends,... | |
 | John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...execration ! for the Divine law not only shields me from injury, but almost renders me too 'sacred for attack ; not indeed so much from the privation of...as from the overshadowing of those heavenly wings which seem to have occasioned this darkness.'1 The latter part of this passage is a complete and sublime... | |
 | Children's literature - 1848 - 800 pages
...behold nothing but himself. Alas ! for him who insnlts me, who maligns and merits public execration ! For the divine law not only shields me from injury,...as from the overshadowing of those heavenly wings, which seem to have occasioned thia obscurity ; and which, when occasioned, he is wont to illuminate... | |
 | Albert Henry Payne - 1844 - 270 pages
...behold nothing but himself. Alas ! for him who insults me, who maligns and merits public execration. For the Divine law not only shields me from injury,...as from the overshadowing of those heavenly wings, which seem to have occasioned this security. To this I ascribe the more tender assiduities of my friends,... | |
 | John [prose] Milton - 1848 - 590 pages
...behold nothing but himself. Alas ! for him who insults me, who maligns and merits public execration ! For the divine law not only shields me from injury,...as from the overshadowing of those heavenly wings which seem to have occasioned this obscurity ; and which, when occasioned, he is wont to illuminate... | |
 | Cyrus R. Edmonds - 1851 - 418 pages
...behold nothing but himself. Alas ! for him who insults me, who maligns and merits public execration ! For the Divine law not only shields me from injury,...as from the overshadowing of those heavenly wings which seem to have occasioned this obscurity ; and which, when occasioned, he is wont to illuminate... | |
 | Joseph Foulkes Winks - 1836 - 720 pages
...behold nothing but himself. Alas ! for him who insults me, who maligns and merits public execration ! For the divine law not only shields me from injury,...as from the overshadowing of those heavenly wings, which seem to have occasioned this obscurity ; and which, when occasioned, he is wont to illuminate... | |
 | Biographical magazine - 1853 - 586 pages
...behold nothing but himself. Alas ! for him who insults me — who maligns and merits public execration. For the divine law not only shields me from injury,...as from the overshadowing of those heavenly wings, which seem to have occasioned this obscurity, and which, when occasioned, he is wont to illuminate... | |
 | William Jay - 1855 - 624 pages
...behold nothing but Himself. Alas for him who insults me, who maligns, and merits public execration ! For the Divine law not only shields me from injury,...as from the overshadowing of those heavenly wings, which seem to have occasioned this obscurity; and which, when occasioned, he is wont to illuminate... | |
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