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" But their way Lies through the perplexed paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger... "
British Theatre - Page 17
by John Bell - 1791
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The Fireside Encyclopaedia of Poetry: Comprising the Best Poems of the Most ...

Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...attend their father's state, And new-entrusted sceptre; but their way Lies through the perplex'd paths nguish, In the hour when death draws wandering passenger ; And here their tender age might suffer peril, But that by quick command from...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Reprinted from the Best Editions, with ...

John Milton - 1881 - 590 pages
...attend their father's state, And new-entrusted sceptre ; but their way Lies through the p6rplexed paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger ; And here their tender age might suffer peril, But that by quick command from...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a life of the author by A. Chalmers ...

John Milton - 1881 - 894 pages
...attend their father's state, And new-intrusted sceptre ; but their way Lies through the perplex'd paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger ; And here their tender age might suffer peril, 40 But that by quick command from...
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The Household Book of Poetry

Charles Anderson Dana - American poetry - 1882 - 906 pages
...attend their father's state, And new-intrusted sceptre ; but their way Lies through the perplexed paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger. And here their tender age might suffer peril, But that, by quick command from...
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Fresh Fields

John Burroughs - Birds - 1885 - 388 pages
...of the fields. Milton sings the praises of " Arched walks of twilight groves." But his wood is a " drear wood," " The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger." Again — "very desolation dwells By grots and caverns shagg'd with horrid shade....
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Poetical Works: Reprinted from the Chandos Poets. With Memoir, Explanatory ...

John Milton - 1886 - 630 pages
...attend their father's state, And new-intrusted sceptre ; but their way Lies through the perplex'd paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady...Jove I was dispatch'd for their defence and guard ; And listen why, for I will tell you now What never yet was heard in tale or song, From old or modern...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1886 - 634 pages
...attend their father's state, And new-intrusted sceptre ; but their way Lies through the perplex'd paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady...passenger; And here their tender age might suffer psril, But that by quick command from sov'reign Jov8 I was dispatch'd for their defence and guard ;...
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The Minor Poems of John Milton

John Milton - Poetry - 1887 - 258 pages
...attend their father's state And new-intrusted sceptre. But their way Lies through the perplex'd paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger ; And here their tender age might suffer peril, But that by quick command from...
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Dublin Translations Into Greek and Latin Verse

Robert Yelverton Tyrrell - English poetry - 1890 - 534 pages
...vocanti rara voluptas. EDWARD SULLIVAN. COMUS. PROLOGUE. BUT their way Lies through the perplex' d paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger ; And here their tender age might suffer peril, But that by quick command from...
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Milton's Arcades and Comus

John Milton - 1891 - 322 pages
...attend their father's state, And new-intrusted sceptre. But their way Lies through the perplexed paths of this drear wood, The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger; And here their tender age might suffer peril, 40 But that, by quick command from...
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