Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson, 1753 - 335 pages |
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... shall be serv'd up last . I pray thee then deny me not thy aid 15 For this fame small neglect that I have made : But These verses were made in 1627 , in the edition of 1645 , but were that being the 19th year of the first added in the ...
... shall be serv'd up last . I pray thee then deny me not thy aid 15 For this fame small neglect that I have made : But These verses were made in 1627 , in the edition of 1645 , but were that being the 19th year of the first added in the ...
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... Shall subject be to many an Accident . nct of tecT O'er all his brethren he shall reign as king , 75 Yet every one shall make him underling , in nod And thofe that cannot live from him afundert end nd diver Ungratefully shall strive to ...
... Shall subject be to many an Accident . nct of tecT O'er all his brethren he shall reign as king , 75 Yet every one shall make him underling , in nod And thofe that cannot live from him afundert end nd diver Ungratefully shall strive to ...
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... shall have a fuller account of this in the Mafk . Or rocky Avon , Spen- fer more largely St. 31 . But Avon marched in more state- ly path , Proud of his adamants , with which he fhines And glifters wide , as als of won- ..drous Bath And ...
... shall have a fuller account of this in the Mafk . Or rocky Avon , Spen- fer more largely St. 31 . But Avon marched in more state- ly path , Proud of his adamants , with which he fhines And glifters wide , as als of won- ..drous Bath And ...
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... Shall from the furface to the center fhake ; When at the world's laft feffion , 160 The dreadful Judge in middle air fhall spread his throne . XVIII . And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is , But now begins ; for from this happy ...
... Shall from the furface to the center fhake ; When at the world's laft feffion , 160 The dreadful Judge in middle air fhall spread his throne . XVIII . And then at last our bliss Full and perfect is , But now begins ; for from this happy ...
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... shall clime , Then all this earthy grofnefs quit , Attir'd with stars , we fhall for ever fit , 15 20 Triumphing over Death , and Chance , and thee , O Time . VI . Upon the CIRCUMCISION . E flaming Pow'rs , and winged Warriors bright Y ...
... shall clime , Then all this earthy grofnefs quit , Attir'd with stars , we fhall for ever fit , 15 20 Triumphing over Death , and Chance , and thee , O Time . VI . Upon the CIRCUMCISION . E flaming Pow'rs , and winged Warriors bright Y ...
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Page 72 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 71 - Softly on my eyelids laid; And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some Spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 58 - 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 237 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 70 - And when the Sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown that Sylvan loves Of Pine, or monumental Oak, Where the rude Axe with heaved stroke, Was never heard the Nymphs to daunt, Or fright them from their hallow'd haunt.
Page 188 - Ay me ! I fondly dream ! Had ye been there — for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself for her enchanting son...
Page 59 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 15 - Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 260 - I am the Lord thy God, which brought Thee out of Egypt land ; Ask large enough, and I, besought, Will grant thy full demand.
Page 63 - But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song...