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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... hold our place and these mild feats Without new trouble ; fuch an enemy Is rifen to invade us , who no less Threatens than our expulsion down to Hell ; I , as I undertook , and with the vote 125 Consenting in full frequence was impower ...
... hold our place and these mild feats Without new trouble ; fuch an enemy Is rifen to invade us , who no less Threatens than our expulsion down to Hell ; I , as I undertook , and with the vote 125 Consenting in full frequence was impower ...
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... , who founded first That empire , under his dominion holds , From the luxurious kings of Antioch won . And just in time thou com'ft to have a view H 290 295 Of Of his great pow'r ; for now the Parthian king Book III . PARADISE REGAIN'D .
... , who founded first That empire , under his dominion holds , From the luxurious kings of Antioch won . And just in time thou com'ft to have a view H 290 295 Of Of his great pow'r ; for now the Parthian king Book III . PARADISE REGAIN'D .
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... hold them all of me ; For what can less so great a gift deserve ? Whom thus our Saviour anfwer'd with difdain . 170 I never lik'd thy talk , thy offers lefs , 175 Now both abhor , fince thou haft dar'd to utter Th ' abominable terms ...
... hold them all of me ; For what can less so great a gift deserve ? Whom thus our Saviour anfwer'd with difdain . 170 I never lik'd thy talk , thy offers lefs , 175 Now both abhor , fince thou haft dar'd to utter Th ' abominable terms ...
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... hold conversation meet ? How wilt thou reafon with them , how refute Their idolisms , traditions , paradoxes ? Error by his own arms is best evinc'd . 230 235 Look once more ere we leave this fpecular mount Weftward , much nearer by ...
... hold conversation meet ? How wilt thou reafon with them , how refute Their idolisms , traditions , paradoxes ? Error by his own arms is best evinc'd . 230 235 Look once more ere we leave this fpecular mount Weftward , much nearer by ...
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... hold ; 480 Whereof this ominous night that clos'd thee round , So many terrors , voices , prodigies May warn thee , as a fure fore - going fign . So talk'd he , while the Son of God went on And stay'd not , but in brief him answer'd ...
... hold ; 480 Whereof this ominous night that clos'd thee round , So many terrors , voices , prodigies May warn thee , as a fure fore - going fign . So talk'd he , while the Son of God went on And stay'd not , but in brief him answer'd ...
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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.
Page 261 - But we do hope to find out all your tricks, Your plots and packing, worse than those of Trent...
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.
Page 69 - Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings ; Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road, Or on the...