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... receive him pure , or rather To do him honour as their king : all come , And he himself among them was baptized ; Not thence to be more pure , but to receive The testimony of Heaven , that who he is Thenceforth the nations may not doubt ...
... receive him pure , or rather To do him honour as their king : all come , And he himself among them was baptized ; Not thence to be more pure , but to receive The testimony of Heaven , that who he is Thenceforth the nations may not doubt ...
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... receive by gift what of my own , When and where likes me best , I can command ? I can at will , doubt not , as soon as thou , Command a table in this wilderness , And call swift flights of Angels ministrant Array'd in glory on my cup to ...
... receive by gift what of my own , When and where likes me best , I can command ? I can at will , doubt not , as soon as thou , Command a table in this wilderness , And call swift flights of Angels ministrant Array'd in glory on my cup to ...
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... receives Promiscuous from all nations , Jew or Greek Or barbarous , nor exception hath declared ; From us , his foes ... received , Turn'd recreant to God , ingrate and false , And so of all true good himself despoil'd ; Yet ...
... receives Promiscuous from all nations , Jew or Greek Or barbarous , nor exception hath declared ; From us , his foes ... received , Turn'd recreant to God , ingrate and false , And so of all true good himself despoil'd ; Yet ...
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... for , though in thee be united What of perfection can in man be found , Or human nature can receive , consider , Thy life hath yet been private , most part spent At home , scarce view'd the Galilean towns , And PARADISE REGAINED . 203-232 .
... for , though in thee be united What of perfection can in man be found , Or human nature can receive , consider , Thy life hath yet been private , most part spent At home , scarce view'd the Galilean towns , And PARADISE REGAINED . 203-232 .
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... receive , Tetrarchs of fire , air , flood , and on the earth , Nations beside from all the quarter'd winds , God of this world invoked , and world beneath : Who then thou art , whose coming is foretold To me most fatal , me it most ...
... receive , Tetrarchs of fire , air , flood , and on the earth , Nations beside from all the quarter'd winds , God of this world invoked , and world beneath : Who then thou art , whose coming is foretold To me most fatal , me it most ...
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Angels arms aught behold breast brought call'd canst captive charms Comus Ctesiphon Dagon dark David's throne death deeds delight deliverance desert divine dread durst earth enemies eyes fair fame fear feast foes foretold friends Gath glory Gods hand hath head hear heard Heaven highth holy honour hope hunger Israel Jephtha Jesus JOHN SHARPE join'd king kingdom Lady Locrine Lord lost Manoah mayst mind mortal Nazarite never nigh night numbers Nymphs o'er offer'd PARADISE REGAINED Parthian Philistines praise Prophet reign replied return'd RICHARD WESTALL river Jordan Sabrina fair Samson SAMSON AGONISTES Satan Saviour seek shades shame Shepherd shouldst snares Son of God song soon spake Spirit stood strength sung sweet Tempter thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thought thy father thyself Timna vex'd virgin virtue wild wilderness wilt wouldst
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Page 3 - Yet some there be that, by due steps, aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity. To such my errand is...
Page 6 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole ; Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page 16 - Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Page 4 - Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep...
Page 16 - He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day ; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 30 - Impostor ! do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance. She, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare Temperance.
Page 34 - By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look, And the Carpathian wizard's hook ; By scaly Triton's winding shell, And old soothsaying Glaucus' spell ; By Leucothea's lovely hands, And her son that rules the strands ; By Thetis...
Page 10 - Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars That Nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps With everlasting oil to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller?
Page 2 - Think not but that I know these things, or think I know them not ; not therefore am I short Of knowing what I ought : he, who receives Light from above, from the Fountain of Light, No other doctrine needs, though granted true ; 290 But these are false, or little else but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.
Page 10 - What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.