English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Volume 21870 |
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... hath supprest in night , To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know . But knowledge is as food , and needs no less Her temperance over appetite , to know In measure what the mind may well contain ...
... hath supprest in night , To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left besides to search and know . But knowledge is as food , and needs no less Her temperance over appetite , to know In measure what the mind may well contain ...
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... hath fail'd , who thought All like himself rebellious , by whose aid 140 This inaccessible high strength , the seat Of Deity supreme , us dispossest , He trusted to have seiz'd , and into fraud Drew many , whom their place knows here no ...
... hath fail'd , who thought All like himself rebellious , by whose aid 140 This inaccessible high strength , the seat Of Deity supreme , us dispossest , He trusted to have seiz'd , and into fraud Drew many , whom their place knows here no ...
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... him down With his great Father ; for he also went Invisible , yet stay'd ( such privilege Hath Omnipresence ) and the work ordain'd , 590 Author and end of all things , and from work 18 [ Bk . LAST POEMS , 1665-1671 .
... him down With his great Father ; for he also went Invisible , yet stay'd ( such privilege Hath Omnipresence ) and the work ordain'd , 590 Author and end of all things , and from work 18 [ Bk . LAST POEMS , 1665-1671 .
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... dwelling - place . Thrice happy men , And sons of men , whom God hath thus advanc't , Created in his image , there to dwell And worship him , and in reward to rule 625 Over his works , on earth , in sea , C 2 VII . ] 19 PARADISE LOST .
... dwelling - place . Thrice happy men , And sons of men , whom God hath thus advanc't , Created in his image , there to dwell And worship him , and in reward to rule 625 Over his works , on earth , in sea , C 2 VII . ] 19 PARADISE LOST .
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... Hath left to their disputes , perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter , when they come to model heav'n And calculate the stars , how they will wield The mighty frame , how build , unbuild , contrive To save ...
... Hath left to their disputes , perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter , when they come to model heav'n And calculate the stars , how they will wield The mighty frame , how build , unbuild , contrive To save ...
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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...