The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and CollinsJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 - English poetry |
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... 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 as his theme ; Astonishing as chaos ; as the bloom Of ...
... 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 as his theme ; Astonishing as chaos ; as the bloom Of ...
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... deep . Which action passed over , the poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting Satan with his angels now fallen into Hell , described here , not in the centre , ( for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made , cer ...
... deep . Which action passed over , the poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting Satan with his angels now fallen into Hell , described here , not in the centre , ( for heaven and earth may be supposed as yet not made , cer ...
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... deep despair : And him thus answered soon his bold compeer . " O prince , O chief of many throned powers , That led th ' embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct , and , in dreadful deeds Fearless , endangered Heav'n's perpetual King ...
... deep despair : And him thus answered soon his bold compeer . " O prince , O chief of many throned powers , That led th ' embattled seraphim to war Under thy conduct , and , in dreadful deeds Fearless , endangered Heav'n's perpetual King ...
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... deep . Let us not slip th ' occasion , whether scorn , Or satiate fury , yield it from our foe . Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild , The seat of desolation , void of light , Save what the glimmering of these livid flames ...
... deep . Let us not slip th ' occasion , whether scorn , Or satiate fury , yield it from our foe . Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild , The seat of desolation , void of light , Save what the glimmering of these livid flames ...
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... deep Of hell resounded . " Princes , potentates , Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darkened all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad angels seen ...
... deep Of hell resounded . " Princes , potentates , Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darkened all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad angels seen ...
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