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... Virtue gives , After this mortal change , to her true servants , Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats . Yet some there be , that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key , 2 That opes the palace of eternity ...
... Virtue gives , After this mortal change , to her true servants , Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats . Yet some there be , that by due steps aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key , 2 That opes the palace of eternity ...
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... virtue of this magic dust , I shall appear some harmless villager , Whom thrift keeps up about his country gear . But here she comes ; I fairly step aside , And hearken , if I may , her business here . [ The LADY enters . ] LADY . My ...
... virtue of this magic dust , I shall appear some harmless villager , Whom thrift keeps up about his country gear . But here she comes ; I fairly step aside , And hearken , if I may , her business here . [ The LADY enters . ] LADY . My ...
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... Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light , though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk . And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retiréd Solitude , Where , with her best nurse , Contemplation , She plumes her ...
... Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light , though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk . And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retiréd Solitude , Where , with her best nurse , Contemplation , She plumes her ...
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... Virtue may be assailed , but never hurt , 25 Surprised by unjust force , but not enthralled ; Yea , even that which mischief meant most harm , Shall in the happy trial prove most glory : But evil on itself shall back recoil , And mix no ...
... Virtue may be assailed , but never hurt , 25 Surprised by unjust force , but not enthralled ; Yea , even that which mischief meant most harm , Shall in the happy trial prove most glory : But evil on itself shall back recoil , And mix no ...
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... 40 her arguments , And Virtue has no tongue to check her pride . Impostor , do not charge most innocent Nature , As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance ; she , good cateress , Means 60 COMUS .
... 40 her arguments , And Virtue has no tongue to check her pride . Impostor , do not charge most innocent Nature , As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance ; she , good cateress , Means 60 COMUS .
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amidst Anchises Ascanius beg me sing beget on youthful bower brute Carpathian wizard's Charáctered chaste chastity Circe clouted shoon COMUS CORBOULD Corineus Cornwall crown that Virtue dead Parthenope's divine philosophy doth drouth drowsy-flighted EARL OF BRIDGEWATER earth cumbered ELDER BROTHER enchanter esteemed Estrildis Faerie Queene fair Ligea's false Fancy can beget fear flocks foul gentle give goddess grace Guendolen halloo hast hath head be crowned Hecat Henry VI herb hidden strength honour Jove knot-grass LADY Listen lord loved mayst Milton Nereus night nymph o'er Paradise Lost ribs of Death Roving the Celtic Sabrina SECOND BROTHER shades shepherd shrewd meddling elf silver lining sister sits the Assyrian sky robes spun soft and solemn-breathing solemn-breathing sound song soul spell SPIRIT stalk with languished stars stream Strive to keep swain sweet taste tell thee thou thought Thrice upon thy thy banks Thyrsis unlocked my lips wand wild winged air darked wood
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Page 38 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 20 - And in sweet madness robbed it of itself, But such a sacred and home-felt delight, Such sober certainty of waking bliss, I never heard till now.
Page 32 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 39 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 76 - To the ocean now I fly, And those happy climes that lie Where day never shuts his eye, Up in the broad fields of the sky. There I suck the liquid air, All amidst the Gardens fair Of Hesperus, and his daughters three That sing about the Golden Tree.
Page 64 - What! have you let the false enchanter scape? O ye mistook; ye should have snatched his wand, And bound him fast. Without his rod reversed, And backward mutters of dissevering power, We cannot free the Lady that sits here In stony fetters fixed and motionless.
Page 3 - In regions mild of calm and serene air, Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot, Which men call earth...
Page 35 - Does arbitrate the event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion.
Page 10 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire ; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And, on the tawny sands and shelves, Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
Page 17 - A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beck'ning shadows dire, And airy tongues, that syllable men's names On sands, and shores, and desert wildernesses.