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... , by bringing into the light as true a birth , as the muses have brought forth since our famous Spencer wrote ; whose poems in these English ones are as rarely imitated , as sweetly excell'd . Reader , if thou art eagle 4 INTRODUCTION .
... , by bringing into the light as true a birth , as the muses have brought forth since our famous Spencer wrote ; whose poems in these English ones are as rarely imitated , as sweetly excell'd . Reader , if thou art eagle 4 INTRODUCTION .
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... brought me to a necessity of pro- ducing it to the publike view ; and now to offer it up in all rightful devotion to those fair hopes and rare endowments of your much- promising youth , which give a full assurance to all that know you ...
... brought me to a necessity of pro- ducing it to the publike view ; and now to offer it up in all rightful devotion to those fair hopes and rare endowments of your much- promising youth , which give a full assurance to all that know you ...
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... brought he delivered it to me , bidding me take it home with me , and read it at my leisure , and when I had so done , return it to him , with my judgment thereupon . " When I came home , and had set myself 10 INTRODUCTION .
... brought he delivered it to me , bidding me take it home with me , and read it at my leisure , and when I had so done , return it to him , with my judgment thereupon . " When I came home , and had set myself 10 INTRODUCTION .
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... brought forth . He was born in London , in a house in Bread - street , the lease whereof , as I take it but for certain it was a house in Bread - street - became in time part of his estate , in the year of our Lord 1606. His father ...
... brought forth . He was born in London , in a house in Bread - street , the lease whereof , as I take it but for certain it was a house in Bread - street - became in time part of his estate , in the year of our Lord 1606. His father ...
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... brought him to an act of oblivion and a firm league of peace for the future ; and it was at length concluded that she should remain at a friend's house till such time as he was settled in his new house at Barbican , and all things for ...
... brought him to an act of oblivion and a firm league of peace for the future ; and it was at length concluded that she should remain at a friend's house till such time as he was settled in his new house at Barbican , and all things for ...
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Adam agni amorous angels appear'd arm'd arms aught beast behold bliss bright call'd cherubim cloud COMUS Dagon dark death deeds deep delight didst divine doth dread dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fear fræna fruit glorious glory gods grace Hæc hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell hill honor ipse Israel John Milton join'd King lest light live Lord Lycidas MANOAH Messiah mihi Milton mortal night numina o'er Paradise Lost PARADISE REGAINED pass'd peace Philistines poems praise quæ reign return'd round SAMSON SAMSON AGONISTES Satan seem'd serpent shade shalt sight Son of God song soon soul spake spirits stood strength sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tibi tree Tu quoque turn'd vex'd virtue voice whence wings wonder
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Page 413 - 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 415 - Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. 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 45 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed...
Page 134 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 456 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 49 - Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor— one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 203 - 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 106 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 455 - Had ye been there," . . . for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? 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...
Page 455 - What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night ; Oft till the star, that rose at evening bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.