...whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads : to thee I mil, But with no friendly voioe, and add thy name, 0 SUN, to tell thee how I hate thy...state 1 fell ; — how glorious once above thy sphere. The Persians worshipped the sun, under the name of Mithras : a deity, who, in the respective times...

...dominion like the god Of this new world; at whose eight all the star« Hide their diminish'') head«; to thee I call. But with no friendly voice ; and add...hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from whnt state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.*' This speech is, I think, the finest that is...

...Then, much revolving, thus in sighs began : — " O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee...

...BEHOLDING THE SUN, AND NEW-CREATED UNIVERSE. O THOU ! that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st, from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world...beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 214 Ah ! wherefore ?— He deserv'd no such return From me, whom he created what 1 was In that bright...

...thy sole Dominion like the God Of this new World; at whose sight all the Starrs Hide thir diminisht heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice,...from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Spheare . . . [4.32-39] We cannot fail to recall how the warmth of the sun shining on the blind poet...

...Satan's address to man in Book IV of the final poem: O thou that with surpassing glory crowned Look'st from thy sole dominion like the God Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name 0 sun, to tell thee...

...23-26) Satan hates beams that only remind him of his paralysis of the will: "to thee I call, ... O Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams / That bring to my remembrance from what state / 1 fell' ' (IV. 35 - 39). The sun inspires memory of his loss, but no ritual recompense, not in mourning - which...

...He even composed the beginning of the soliloquy: O Thou that with surpassing glory crowned Lookest from Thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads, to Thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee...

...to Paradise Lost, and Satan's address to the sun in the fourth book (32-41): Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice,...how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worst ambition threw me down Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king. Here, it is not Cuchullin...

...of Paradise Lost, especially its opening lines: "O thou that with surpassing glory crowned Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee...