Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton, from the Text of Thomas Newton, D.D.John Baskerville, 1759 - 388 pages |
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... Satan ; let him tempt and now affay His utmost subtlety , because he boasts 140 And vaunts of his great cunning to the throng 145 Of his apoftafy ; he might have learnt Lefs overweening fince he fail'd in Job , Whose constant ...
... Satan ; let him tempt and now affay His utmost subtlety , because he boasts 140 And vaunts of his great cunning to the throng 145 Of his apoftafy ; he might have learnt Lefs overweening fince he fail'd in Job , Whose constant ...
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... Satanic strength , And all the world , and mafs of finful flesh ; That all the Angels and ethereal Powers , They now , and men hereafter may discern , From what confummate virtue I have chofe This perfect man , by merit call'd my Son ...
... Satanic strength , And all the world , and mafs of finful flesh ; That all the Angels and ethereal Powers , They now , and men hereafter may discern , From what confummate virtue I have chofe This perfect man , by merit call'd my Son ...
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... Satan bowing low His gray diffimulation , disappear'd Into thin air diffus'd : for now began Night with her fullen wings to double - shade 500 The defert ; fowls in their clay nefts were couch'd ; And now wild beafts came forth the ...
... Satan bowing low His gray diffimulation , disappear'd Into thin air diffus'd : for now began Night with her fullen wings to double - shade 500 The defert ; fowls in their clay nefts were couch'd ; And now wild beafts came forth the ...
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... Satan with fly preface to return Had left him vacant , and with speed was gone Up to the middle region of thick air , Where all his potentates in council sat ; 110 115 There without fign of boast , or fign of joy , Solicitous and blank ...
... Satan with fly preface to return Had left him vacant , and with speed was gone Up to the middle region of thick air , Where all his potentates in council sat ; 110 115 There without fign of boast , or fign of joy , Solicitous and blank ...
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... Satan thus return'd . Belial , in much uneven scale thou weigh'st All others by thyfelf ; because of old Thou thyself doat'dst on womankind , admiring 175 Their shape , their color , and attractive grace , None are , thou think'ft , but ...
... Satan thus return'd . Belial , in much uneven scale thou weigh'st All others by thyfelf ; because of old Thou thyself doat'dst on womankind , admiring 175 Their shape , their color , and attractive grace , None are , thou think'ft , but ...
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Page 196 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Page 241 - In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
Page 266 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
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Page 255 - The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
Page 275 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 197 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 255 - Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood : But now my oat proceeds. And listens to the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea, He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain?
Page 200 - But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak.
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