Poems on Several Occasions: And Two Critical Essays; Viz., the First, on the Harmony, Variety, and Power of Numbers Whether in Prose Or Verse, the Second, on the Numbers of Paradise Lost, Volume 1 |
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... whose Covert , They , in Arborous Bow'rs And fweet Retirement , pass their happy Hours , Here , in its deep Receffes , penfive I Wander Alone , decline All Company ; Still Melancholy ; ftill in Tears am found ; Yet know no Reafon of the ...
... whose Covert , They , in Arborous Bow'rs And fweet Retirement , pass their happy Hours , Here , in its deep Receffes , penfive I Wander Alone , decline All Company ; Still Melancholy ; ftill in Tears am found ; Yet know no Reafon of the ...
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... Numbers of Paradise Lost Samuel Say William Duncombe. POEM S Ỏ N MORAL and DIVINE SUBJECTS . Quid Verum atque Decens , curo et rogo , et Omnis in hoc fum . HOR H MERUDICAGO CAMSONGASILCIFFINS PSALM THE FIRST . OLEST Man ! whose.
... Numbers of Paradise Lost Samuel Say William Duncombe. POEM S Ỏ N MORAL and DIVINE SUBJECTS . Quid Verum atque Decens , curo et rogo , et Omnis in hoc fum . HOR H MERUDICAGO CAMSONGASILCIFFINS PSALM THE FIRST . OLEST Man ! whose.
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... whose steady Soul , to Vice BLE No Power can draw , no Charms entice ; Who fhuns the Paths , where , on each Hand , Deluding Pleasures tempting ftand ; And hates bold Sinners , who blafpheme The great JEHOVAH's awful Name . GOD's ...
... whose steady Soul , to Vice BLE No Power can draw , no Charms entice ; Who fhuns the Paths , where , on each Hand , Deluding Pleasures tempting ftand ; And hates bold Sinners , who blafpheme The great JEHOVAH's awful Name . GOD's ...
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... Whose Little is Enough — Enough- That Sweeter Word for All ! O Decent Pride ! O truly Lord Of His Poffeffions , who ftill bears A Soul above ' em ! Richer far Than all Apulia's Stores , Heap'd Heap'd in the crouded Barn , could make The ...
... Whose Little is Enough — Enough- That Sweeter Word for All ! O Decent Pride ! O truly Lord Of His Poffeffions , who ftill bears A Soul above ' em ! Richer far Than all Apulia's Stores , Heap'd Heap'd in the crouded Barn , could make The ...
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... justly prevail . But to give you the Clearer Notion of what I intend , I will refer you only to one Paffage , which I have particular Reason to mention . Thámmuz Thámmuz came next , běhind , Whose annual Wound in ESSAY the FIRST . 127.
... justly prevail . But to give you the Clearer Notion of what I intend , I will refer you only to one Paffage , which I have particular Reason to mention . Thámmuz Thámmuz came next , běhind , Whose annual Wound in ESSAY the FIRST . 127.
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१ १ Accent ÆNEID agreeable alfo almoſt Ancients Anſwer Attorney at Law AURENG-ZEBE Beauty becauſe BELPHOEBE Books Breaſt call'd CICERO clofe Cloſe Compofitions confifts Dactyle Defign Defire Eaſe exprefs faid fame fays feems feen fhall fhew fhould firft Firſt fome fometimes foon ftand ftill fuch give Grace Happineſs Harmony Heaven himſelf HORACE Iambic Idéas ILIAD Inftance Ipfwich itſelf John Juft juſtly Laft leaſt Lines Love mány Meaſure MILTON Mind moſt Movements Mufic Muſe muſt myſelf obferve Occafion Paffage Paffion PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAIN'D Paufes pleas'd pleaſe Pleaſure Poëm Poët Power of Numbers Praiſe Profe Propriety Purpoſe Pyrrichius QUINTILIAN raiſe Reader Reaſon reft REGAIN'D reſt rife Rime Samuel ſeem Senfe Sentence ſhall Soul Sounds Spondee Syllables Tämbics Thee Thefe themſelves Theſe Thofe Thoſe Thou Thoughts Thouſand thro Tranflations Trochee utmoſt Variety Verfe Verſe vext Voice whofe Words
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Page 126 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 112 - Shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, And His strength, and His wonderful works that He hath done.
Page 104 - Of night's extended shade, from eastern point Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas. Beyond the horizon : then from pole to pole He views in breadth, and without longer pause Down right into the world's first region throws His flight precipitant, and winds with ease Through the pure marble air his oblique way Amongst innumerable stars, that shone Stars distant, but nigh hand seem'd other worlds ; Or other worlds they seem'd, or happy isles...
Page 149 - Hesperides, that seem'd Fairer than feign'd of old or fabled since Of faery damsels, met in forest wide By knights of Logres, or of Lyones, Lancelot, or Pelleas, or Pellenore.
Page 150 - O could I flow like thee! and make thy stream My great example, as it is my theme ! Tho
Page 133 - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes: but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be called Mother of human race.
Page 97 - By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes.
Page 101 - Cursed be their anger, for it was fierce; and their wrath, for it was cruel: I will divide them in Jacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Page 148 - And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 170 - AND it came to pass afterward, that he went throughout every city and village, preaching and shewing the glad tidings of the kingdom of God...