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Page vii
... tell you a short story , from the interest nicated his design to Sir Henry Wotton , who had you have given me in your safety . formerly been ambassador at Venice , and was " At Sienna I was tabled in the house of one then Provost of ...
... tell you a short story , from the interest nicated his design to Sir Henry Wotton , who had you have given me in your safety . formerly been ambassador at Venice , and was " At Sienna I was tabled in the house of one then Provost of ...
Page xxxi
... tell , That never Britain can in vain excel ; The slighted arts futurity shall trust , BUT MILTON next , with high and haughty stalks , And rising ages hasten to be just . Unfetter'd , in majestic numbers , walks : No vulgar hero can ...
... tell , That never Britain can in vain excel ; The slighted arts futurity shall trust , BUT MILTON next , with high and haughty stalks , And rising ages hasten to be just . Unfetter'd , in majestic numbers , walks : No vulgar hero can ...
Page 5
... tell , though far renowned , Th ' Ionian Gods , of Javan's issue ; held Gods , yet confessed later than Heaven and Earth , Their boasted parents : Titan , Heaven's first - born , With his enormous brood , and birthright seized By ...
... tell , though far renowned , Th ' Ionian Gods , of Javan's issue ; held Gods , yet confessed later than Heaven and Earth , Their boasted parents : Titan , Heaven's first - born , With his enormous brood , and birthright seized By ...
Page 18
... tell Of things invisible to mortal sight . Now had the almighty Father from above , From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all height , bent down his eye , His own works and their works at once to view : HAIL , holy ...
... tell Of things invisible to mortal sight . Now had the almighty Father from above , From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all height , bent down his eye , His own works and their works at once to view : HAIL , holy ...
Page 23
... tell , Or longitude , ) where the great luminary , Aloof the vulgar constellations thick That from his lordly eye keep distance due , Dispenses light from far : they , as they move Their starry dance , in numbers that compute Days ...
... tell , Or longitude , ) where the great luminary , Aloof the vulgar constellations thick That from his lordly eye keep distance due , Dispenses light from far : they , as they move Their starry dance , in numbers that compute Days ...
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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.