Paradise Regain'd: A Poem. In Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes. And Poems Upon Several Occasions. Compos'd at Several TimesJacob Tonson, 1707 - 457 pages |
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... dost persuade me to seek wealth For Empire's fake , nor Empire to affect For glory's fake by all thy argument . For what is glory but the blaze of fame , The peoples praise , if always praise unmixt ? And what the people but a herd ...
... dost persuade me to seek wealth For Empire's fake , nor Empire to affect For glory's fake by all thy argument . For what is glory but the blaze of fame , The peoples praise , if always praise unmixt ? And what the people but a herd ...
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... these ? Sam . Tongue - doughty Giant , how dost thou prove Har . Is not thy Nation subject to our Lords ? Their Magiftrates confest it , when they took thee As As a League - breaker and deliver'd bound Into our 154 SAMSON AGONISTES .
... these ? Sam . Tongue - doughty Giant , how dost thou prove Har . Is not thy Nation subject to our Lords ? Their Magiftrates confest it , when they took thee As As a League - breaker and deliver'd bound Into our 154 SAMSON AGONISTES .
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... dost inspire Mirth and Youth and warm defire , Woods and Groves are of thy dreffing , Hill and Dale doth boast thy bleffing . Thus we falute thee with our early Song , And welcome thee , and with thee long . On SHAKESPEAR . 1630 . WHA ...
... dost inspire Mirth and Youth and warm defire , Woods and Groves are of thy dreffing , Hill and Dale doth boast thy bleffing . Thus we falute thee with our early Song , And welcome thee , and with thee long . On SHAKESPEAR . 1630 . WHA ...
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... dost stray ! Expectance calls thee now another way , Thou know'ft it must be now thy only bent To keep in compass of thy Predicament : Then quick about thy purpos'd business come That to the next I may refign my Room . Then Then Ens is ...
... dost stray ! Expectance calls thee now another way , Thou know'ft it must be now thy only bent To keep in compass of thy Predicament : Then quick about thy purpos'd business come That to the next I may refign my Room . Then Then Ens is ...
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... dost dwell so near . 2 My Soul doth long and almost die- Thy Courts O Lord to fee , My heart and flesh aloud do cry , O living God , for thee . : 3 There ev'n the Sparrow freed from wrong Hath found a house of rest , The Swallow there ...
... dost dwell so near . 2 My Soul doth long and almost die- Thy Courts O Lord to fee , My heart and flesh aloud do cry , O living God , for thee . : 3 There ev'n the Sparrow freed from wrong Hath found a house of rest , The Swallow there ...
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Page 194 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade...
Page 195 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 189 - With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Page 176 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 196 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 156 - Is hate, not help to me, it may with mine Draw their own ruin who attempt the deed.
Page 259 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 105 - Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 48 - Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Page 269 - The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.