 With supple joints, as lively vigor led : But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not; to speak I tried, and forthwith spake; My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw.  Memorials: And Other Papers - Side 78af Thomas De Quincey - 1856Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Milton - 1928 - 402 sider
...sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigor led; 1 Paradise Lost 8. 159-116. But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not. To speak I tried, and forthwith spake; My tongue obeyed and readily could name Whate'er I saw. "Thou... | |
 | John Milton - 1928 - 402 sider
...sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigor led; 1 Paradise Lost 8. 159-116. \But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not. To speak I tried, and forthwith spake; My tongue obeyed and readily could name Whate'er I saw. "Thou... | |
 | 1909 - 502 sider
...and limb by limb Surveyed, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigour led ; But who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not. To speak I tried, and forthwith spake; My tongue obeyed, and readily could name Whate'er I saw. ' Thou... | |
 | W. B. Carnochan - 1987 - 260 sider
...With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflow'd. Myself I then perus'd, and limb by limb Survey'd, and sometimes went and sometimes ran With supple joints,...who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not: to speak I try'd and forthwith spake[,] My tongue obey'd, and readily could name Whate'er I saw." It... | |
 | David G. Allen, Robert A. White - 1990 - 284 sider
...creation: Straight toward Heav'n my wond'ring Eyes I turn'd, And gaz'da while the ample Sky. . . . But who I was, or where, or from what cause. Knew not. . . . . . . Thou Sun, said I, fair Light, And thou enlight'n'd Earth, so fresh and gay, Ye Hills and... | |
 | Jeanne Heuving - 1992 - 204 sider
...Lost, just after Adam's creation, he awakes to find himself endowed preternaturally with language: But who I was or where, or from what cause, Knew not, to speak I tri'd, and forthwith spake, My tongue obey'd and readily could name Whate'er 1 saw " Moore's... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - 1993 - 514 sider
...With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflowed. My self I then perused, and limb by limb Surveyed, and sometimes ran With supple joints, as lively vigor...who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not. . . . THE CREATION: A NEGRO SERMON JAMES WELDON JOHNSON And God stepped out on space, And He looked... | |
 | Charles W. Durham, Kristin Pruitt McColgan - 1994 - 316 sider
...hills, plains, streams, a variety of other creatures—and then Self: "My self I then perus'd . . . / But who I was, or where, or from what cause, / Knew not" (8.267-71). The sense of humility and dependence that follows marks his first cognition of an inner... | |
 | Roy Porter - 1997 - 304 sider
...autonomy, the unified sense of selfhood - the conviction of autonomy - is abandoned, never to be regained: 'But who I was, or where, or from what cause, / knew not'. 'How came I thus, how here?' he asks of the inanimate nature which surrounds him. Milton's compressed... | |
 | Marshall Grossman - 1998 - 378 sider
...surroundings. He then turns his attention to himself: Myself I then perus'd, and Limb by Limb Survey'd, and sometimes went, and sometimes ran With supple...who I was, or where, or from what cause, Knew not. (8.267-71) When Adam recounts that he did not know who or where or why he was, he fails to mention... | |
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