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... fire : But when , with eager steps , from hence I rise , And view the first gay scene of Paradise ; What tongue , what words of rapture , can express A vision so profuse of pleasantness ! ADDRESS TO GREAT BRITAIN . FROM THOMSON'S SUMMER ...
... fire : But when , with eager steps , from hence I rise , And view the first gay scene of Paradise ; What tongue , what words of rapture , can express A vision so profuse of pleasantness ! ADDRESS TO GREAT BRITAIN . FROM THOMSON'S SUMMER ...
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... fire , Who durst defy th ' Omnipotent to arms . Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men , he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished , rolling in the fiery gulf , Confounded , though immortal : but his doom Fast by ...
... fire , Who durst defy th ' Omnipotent to arms . Nine times the space that measures day and night To mortal men , he with his horrid crew Lay vanquished , rolling in the fiery gulf , Confounded , though immortal : but his doom Fast by ...
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... fire , He soon discerns ; and welt'ring by his side One next himself in power , and next in crime , Long after known in Palestine , and named Beelzebub . To whom th ' arch enemy , Since , through experience of this great event , In arms ...
... fire , He soon discerns ; and welt'ring by his side One next himself in power , and next in crime , Long after known in Palestine , and named Beelzebub . To whom th ' arch enemy , Since , through experience of this great event , In arms ...
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... fire ; And such appeared in hue , as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shattered side Of thundering Etna , whose combustible And fuelled entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublimed with ...
... fire ; And such appeared in hue , as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shattered side Of thundering Etna , whose combustible And fuelled entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublimed with ...
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... fire : Nathless he so endured , till on the beach , Of that inflamed sea he stood , and called His legions , angel forms , who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa , where th ' Etrurian shades ...
... fire : Nathless he so endured , till on the beach , Of that inflamed sea he stood , and called His legions , angel forms , who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks In Vallombrosa , where th ' Etrurian shades ...
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Page 10 - Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt ! — So both ascend In the visions of God — B.