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... fear ; Of other creatures , as him pleases best , Wherever plac't , let him dispose : joy thou In what he gives to thee , this Paradise 170 And thy fair Eve ; heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there ; be lowly wise : VIII ...
... fear ; Of other creatures , as him pleases best , Wherever plac't , let him dispose : joy thou In what he gives to thee , this Paradise 170 And thy fair Eve ; heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there ; be lowly wise : VIII ...
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... in the garden grows Eat freely with glad heart ; fear here no dearth : But of the tree , whose operation brings Knowledge of good and ill , which I have set 320 The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith , Amid VIII . ] 29 PARADISE LOST .
... in the garden grows Eat freely with glad heart ; fear here no dearth : But of the tree , whose operation brings Knowledge of good and ill , which I have set 320 The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith , Amid VIII . ] 29 PARADISE LOST .
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... fear'st not , being such , As we , not capable of death or pain , Can either not receive , or can repel . His fraud is then thy fear , which plain infers Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shak'n or seduc't ...
... fear'st not , being such , As we , not capable of death or pain , Can either not receive , or can repel . His fraud is then thy fear , which plain infers Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shak'n or seduc't ...
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... fear of harm ? But harm precedes not sin : only our Foe Tempting , affronts us with his foul esteem Of our integrity : his foul esteem 325 Sticks no dishonour on our front , but turns 330 Foul on himself ; then wherefore shunn'd or fear ...
... fear of harm ? But harm precedes not sin : only our Foe Tempting , affronts us with his foul esteem Of our integrity : his foul esteem 325 Sticks no dishonour on our front , but turns 330 Foul on himself ; then wherefore shunn'd or fear ...
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... fear'd To interrupt , side - long he works his way . As when a ship by skilful steersman wrought Nigh river's mouth or foreland , where the wind Veers off , as oft so steers , and shifts her sail ; So varied he , and of his tortuous ...
... fear'd To interrupt , side - long he works his way . As when a ship by skilful steersman wrought Nigh river's mouth or foreland , where the wind Veers off , as oft so steers , and shifts her sail ; So varied he , and of his tortuous ...
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Page 60 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 4 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 207 - Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease, • Ease to the body some, none to the mind From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging, and present Times past, what once I was, and what am now.
Page 318 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 210 - And buried ; but, O yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave ; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains, and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 16 - But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God supreme, who made him chief •Of all his works : therefore the omnipotent Eternal Father, for where is not he Present?
Page 207 - A LITTLE onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade. There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily...
Page 208 - Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke. Yet stay, let me not rashly call in doubt Divine prediction...
Page 35 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 142 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...