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... praise ! Let Wit , condemn'd the feeble war to wage With close malevolence , or public rage ; Let Study , worn with virtue's fruitless lore , Behold this Theatre , and grieve no more . This night , distinguished by your smiles , shall ...
... praise ! Let Wit , condemn'd the feeble war to wage With close malevolence , or public rage ; Let Study , worn with virtue's fruitless lore , Behold this Theatre , and grieve no more . This night , distinguished by your smiles , shall ...
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... praise could they re- ceive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid , When will and reason ( reason also is ... praises , with th ' innumerable sound Of hymns and sacred songs , wherewith thy throne Incompassed shall resound thee ever ...
... praise could they re- ceive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid , When will and reason ( reason also is ... praises , with th ' innumerable sound Of hymns and sacred songs , wherewith thy throne Incompassed shall resound thee ever ...
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... praise Forget , nor from thy Father's praise disjoin . Thus they in Heaven , above the starry sphere , Their happy hours in joy and hymning spent . Meanwhile upon the firm opacious globe Of this round world , whose first convex divides ...
... praise Forget , nor from thy Father's praise disjoin . Thus they in Heaven , above the starry sphere , Their happy hours in joy and hymning spent . Meanwhile upon the firm opacious globe Of this round world , whose first convex divides ...
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... praise ; Who justly hath driven out his rebel foes To deepest hell , and to repair that loss Created this new happy race of men To serve him better : wise are all his ways . " So spake the false dissembler unperceived ; For neither man ...
... praise ; Who justly hath driven out his rebel foes To deepest hell , and to repair that loss Created this new happy race of men To serve him better : wise are all his ways . " So spake the false dissembler unperceived ; For neither man ...
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... praise him , and extol His bounty , following our delightful task , To prune these growing plants , and tend these flowers , Which , were it toilsome , yet with thee were sweet . " To whom thus Eve replied : - " Othou for whom Celestial ...
... praise him , and extol His bounty , following our delightful task , To prune these growing plants , and tend these flowers , Which , were it toilsome , yet with thee were sweet . " To whom thus Eve replied : - " Othou for whom Celestial ...
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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.