 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.  The Poetical Works of John Milton - Page 6by John Milton - 1866Full view - About this book
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...of Venus, or " the goddess of beauty." Milton describes it in the following well-known lines : — "Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If...thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown' at the smiling morn With thy bright circlet — praise Him in thy sphere." It is indeed to the... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 502 pages
...without night, Circle his throne rejoicing — ye in Heaven; On Earth join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest...sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. Thou Sun, of this great World both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy Greater; sound his praise In thy... | |
 | James Chapman - 286 pages
...night, Circle his throne, rejoicing. — Ye, in heaven ; On earth, join all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest...sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. Thou sun ! of this great world both eye and soul ! Acknowledge him thy greater ; sound his praise In... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Biography & Autobiography - 1954 - 452 pages
...perhaps remember how Milton, in Paradise Lost, refers to this double character and office of Venus : "Fairest of stars! last in the train of night, If...sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime." Our Lord Jesus Christ calls Himself, "the bright and morning star." Whenever He comes into the soul,... | |
 | Regina M. Schwartz - Literary Criticism - 1988 - 160 pages
...are other not-so-veiled allusions to the Tempter in the aubade. The morning star is asked to praise. Fairest of Stars, last in the train of Night, If better...Sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of Prime. (V. 166-70) Lucifer is no longer the last star of night; he is the "sure pledge of day." The effect... | |
 | Diane Kelsey McColley - Art - 1993 - 336 pages
...faith, by the "intellectual ray" undergoing the poem's purgative process that increases its acuity. 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 Mom With thy bright Circlet, praise [God] in thy Sphere While day arises, that... | |
 | John Milton - Poetry - 2003 - 1084 pages
...Heav'n; On Earth join all ye Creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. 165 Fairest of Stars, last in the train of Night, If better...Sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of Prime. 170 Thou Sun, of this great World both Eye and Soul, Acknowledge him thy Greater, sound his praise... | |
 | John Milton - English literature - 2003 - 1012 pages
...extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, lasr in the train of night,0 If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge...sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of prime. 170 Thou sun, of this great world both eye and soul, Acknowledge him thy greater, sound his praise... | |
 | John Milton, Merritt Yerkes Hughes - Poetry - 2003 - 388 pages
...t'our intelli- Heaven in the Iliad XXII, 318. In the genee. pre-sunrise sky it is Lucifer, the lightIf better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of...Sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of Prime. 170 Thou Sun, of 1this great World both Eye and Soul, Acknowledge him thy Greater, sound his praise... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay - Philosophy - 2005 - 553 pages
...only to strengthen our conviction that he was both a great and afgood man. DANTE (JANUARY 1824) v " Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better...thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crowtt'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet."-1— MILTON. IN a review of Italian literature,... | |
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