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... earth unparallel'd ! The rarer thy example stands , [ plain , By how much from the top of wondrous glory , 147 gates of Azza ] Beaumont's Psyche , c . v . st . 71 . With statelier might his brawnie shoulders bare Did Gaza's gates up ...
... earth unparallel'd ! The rarer thy example stands , [ plain , By how much from the top of wondrous glory , 147 gates of Azza ] Beaumont's Psyche , c . v . st . 71 . With statelier might his brawnie shoulders bare Did Gaza's gates up ...
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... earth , Universally crown'd with highest praises . 175 SAMS . I hear the sound of words , their sense the Dissolves unjointed ere it reach my ear . [ air CHOR . He speaks , let us draw nigh . Matchless The glory late of Israel , now the ...
... earth , Universally crown'd with highest praises . 175 SAMS . I hear the sound of words , their sense the Dissolves unjointed ere it reach my ear . [ air CHOR . He speaks , let us draw nigh . Matchless The glory late of Israel , now the ...
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... deed . 1265 CuOR . Oh , how comely it is , and how reviving To the spirits of just men long oppress'd ! When God into the hands of their deliverer 1270 Puts invincible might To quell the mighty of the earth 54 SAMSON AGONISTES .
... deed . 1265 CuOR . Oh , how comely it is , and how reviving To the spirits of just men long oppress'd ! When God into the hands of their deliverer 1270 Puts invincible might To quell the mighty of the earth 54 SAMSON AGONISTES .
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John Milton. Puts invincible might To quell the mighty of the earth , th ' oppressor , The brute and boist'rous force of violent men Hardy and industrious to support Tyrannic power , but raging to pursue The righteous , and all such as ...
John Milton. Puts invincible might To quell the mighty of the earth , th ' oppressor , The brute and boist'rous force of violent men Hardy and industrious to support Tyrannic power , but raging to pursue The righteous , and all such as ...
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... Earth , and with low - thoughted care Confin'd , and pester'd in this pinfold here , Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being , Unmindful of the crown that virtue gives , After this mortal change , to her true servants , 10 * The ...
... Earth , and with low - thoughted care Confin'd , and pester'd in this pinfold here , Strive to keep up a frail and feverish being , Unmindful of the crown that virtue gives , After this mortal change , to her true servants , 10 * The ...
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Page 10 - Thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as th
Page 143 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise ; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good morrow, Through the sweet-briar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine ; While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And, to the stack or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before...
Page 138 - 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 97 - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream, and solemn vision, Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear...
Page 147 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 169 - Nature, that heard such sound Beneath the hollow round Of Cynthia's seat the airy region thrilling, Now was almost won To think her part was done, And that her reign had here its last fulfilling: She knew such harmony alone Could hold all heaven and earth in happier union.
Page 97 - Heav'n is Saintly chastity, That when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried Angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt, And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear, Till oft converse with heav'nly habitants Begin to cast a beam on th...
Page 215 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 142 - 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; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Page 2 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions ; that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.