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... sense secure ; While the Town - Bays writes all the while and spells , And , like a pack - horse , tires without his bells : Their fancies like our bushy points appear ; The poets tag them , we for fashion wear . I too , transported by ...
... sense secure ; While the Town - Bays writes all the while and spells , And , like a pack - horse , tires without his bells : Their fancies like our bushy points appear ; The poets tag them , we for fashion wear . I too , transported by ...
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... sense , Creative fancy , and inspection keen Through the deep windings of the human heart , Is not wild Shakspeare thine and Nature's boast ? Is not each great , each amiable , Muse Of classic ages in thy MILTON met ? A genius universal ...
... sense , Creative fancy , and inspection keen Through the deep windings of the human heart , Is not wild Shakspeare thine and Nature's boast ? Is not each great , each amiable , Muse Of classic ages in thy MILTON met ? A genius universal ...
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... sense ) Others apart sat on a hill retired , In thoughts more elevate , and reasoned high Of providence , foreknowledge , will , and fate ; Fixed fate , free will , foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end , in wandering mazes lost ...
... sense ) Others apart sat on a hill retired , In thoughts more elevate , and reasoned high Of providence , foreknowledge , will , and fate ; Fixed fate , free will , foreknowledge absolute ; And found no end , in wandering mazes lost ...
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... Sense of new joy ineffable diffused : Beyond compare the Son of God was seen Most glorious ; in him all his Father ... senses dark , What may suffice and soften stony hearts To pray , repent , and bring obedience due . BOOK III . 19 ...
... Sense of new joy ineffable diffused : Beyond compare the Son of God was seen Most glorious ; in him all his Father ... senses dark , What may suffice and soften stony hearts To pray , repent , and bring obedience due . BOOK III . 19 ...
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... sense exposed , In narrow room Nature's whole wealth , yea more , A Heaven on earth ; for blissful Paradise Of God the garden was , by him in the east Of Eden planted ; Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of ...
... sense exposed , In narrow room Nature's whole wealth , yea more , A Heaven on earth ; for blissful Paradise Of God the garden was , by him in the east Of Eden planted ; Eden stretched her line From Auran eastward to the royal towers Of ...
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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.