Bell's Edition, Volumes 31-32J. Bell, 1788 - English poetry |
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... Things highest , greatest , multiplies my fear . Before him a great prophet , to proclame His coming , is sent harbinger , who all Invites , and in the consecrated stream Pretends to wash off sin , and fit them so Purified to receive ...
... Things highest , greatest , multiplies my fear . Before him a great prophet , to proclame His coming , is sent harbinger , who all Invites , and in the consecrated stream Pretends to wash off sin , and fit them so Purified to receive ...
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... things could be To her a virgin , that on her should come The Holy Ghost , and the power of the Highest O'er - shadow ' her : this Man born and now up- To show him worthy of his birth divine And high prediction , henceforth I expose ...
... things could be To her a virgin , that on her should come The Holy Ghost , and the power of the Highest O'er - shadow ' her : this Man born and now up- To show him worthy of his birth divine And high prediction , henceforth I expose ...
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... things : therefore above my years , The law of God I read , and found it sweet , Made it my whole delight , and in it grew To such perfection , that ere yet my age Had measur'd twice six years , at our great feast I went into the temple ...
... things : therefore above my years , The law of God I read , and found it sweet , Made it my whole delight , and in it grew To such perfection , that ere yet my age Had measur'd twice six years , at our great feast I went into the temple ...
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... things of thee to all that present stood . This having heard , strait I again revolv'd 255 The Law and Prophets , searching what was writ Concerning the Messiah , to our scribes 261 Known partly , and soon found of whom they spake Bij ...
... things of thee to all that present stood . This having heard , strait I again revolv'd 255 The Law and Prophets , searching what was writ Concerning the Messiah , to our scribes 261 Known partly , and soon found of whom they spake Bij ...
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... things past and to come Lodg'd in his breast , as well might recommend Such solitude before choicest society . Full forty days he pass'd , whether on hill Sometimes , anon in shady vale , each night Under the covert of some ancient oak ...
... things past and to come Lodg'd in his breast , as well might recommend Such solitude before choicest society . Full forty days he pass'd , whether on hill Sometimes , anon in shady vale , each night Under the covert of some ancient oak ...
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Page 108 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine ; Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskin'd stage. But O, sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower ? Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek.
Page 99 - Haste thee Nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful Jollity, Quips and Cranks, and wanton Wiles, Nods, and Becks, and wreathed Smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; 30 Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 113 - Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely slighted shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Page 109 - And when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves...
Page 108 - To bless the doors from nightly harm. Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely...
Page 91 - And 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 impaired. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 49 - Left me all helpless, with the irreparable loss Of sight, reserved alive to be repeated The subject of their cruelty or scorn. Nor am I in the list of them that hope ; Hopeless are all my evils, all remediless. This one prayer yet remains, might I be heard, No long petition — speedy death, 650 The close of all my miseries and the balm.
Page 40 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree?
Page 91 - Some say no evil thing that walks by night. In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or stubborn unlaid ghost, That breaks his magic chains at curfew time, No goblin or swart faery of the mine, Hath hurtful power o'er true virginity.
Page 76 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.