The Poetical Works of Milton, Young, Gray, Beattie, and CollinsJ. B. Lippincott & Company, 1859 - English poetry |
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Page xxxi
... fame Ye nymphs , whose bosoms beat at MILTON's name , Whose generous zeal , unbought by flattering rhymes , • Shames the mean pensions of Augustan times ; Immortal patrons of succeeding days , Attend this prelude of perpetual praise ...
... fame Ye nymphs , whose bosoms beat at MILTON's name , Whose generous zeal , unbought by flattering rhymes , • Shames the mean pensions of Augustan times ; Immortal patrons of succeeding days , Attend this prelude of perpetual praise ...
Page 7
... fame , And strength , and art , are easily outdone By spirits reprobate , and in an hour What in an age they , with incessant toil And hands innumerable , scarce perform . Henceforth his might we know , and know our Nigh on the plain ...
... fame , And strength , and art , are easily outdone By spirits reprobate , and in an hour What in an age they , with incessant toil And hands innumerable , scarce perform . Henceforth his might we know , and know our Nigh on the plain ...
Page 11
... fame in Heaven Err not , ) another world , the happy seat Of some new race called Man , about this time To be created like to us , though less They dreaded worse than hell : so much the fear In power and excellence , but favoured more ...
... fame in Heaven Err not , ) another world , the happy seat Of some new race called Man , about this time To be created like to us , though less They dreaded worse than hell : so much the fear In power and excellence , but favoured more ...
Page 77
... fame in Heaven Long had foretold , a fabric wonderful Of absolute perfection ; therein man Placed in a Paradise , by our exile There kept their watch the legions , while the grand | Made happy : him by fraud I have seduced In council ...
... fame in Heaven Long had foretold , a fabric wonderful Of absolute perfection ; therein man Placed in a Paradise , by our exile There kept their watch the legions , while the grand | Made happy : him by fraud I have seduced In council ...
Page 89
... fame shall be achieved , renown on earth ; And what most merits fame in silence hid . High in salvation and the climes of bliss , Exempt from death ; to show thee what reward Awaits the good , the rest what punishment ; Which now direct ...
... fame shall be achieved , renown on earth ; And what most merits fame in silence hid . High in salvation and the climes of bliss , Exempt from death ; to show thee what reward Awaits the good , the rest what punishment ; Which now direct ...
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