Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author. With a Critical Dissertation, on the Poetical Works of Milton, and Observations on His Language and Versification, Volumes 1-2J. Parsons, 1796 |
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... faith ? 520 O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin ! Hence I will excite their minds With more desire to know , and to reject Envious commands , invented with design To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt Equal with ...
... faith ? 520 O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin ! Hence I will excite their minds With more desire to know , and to reject Envious commands , invented with design To keep them low whom knowledge might exalt Equal with ...
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... faith engag'd , Your military ' obedience , to dissolve Allegiance to th ' acknowledg'd Pow'r Supreme ? And thou , sly hypocrite , who now wouldst seem Patron of liberty , who more than thou Once fawn'd , and cring'd , and servilely ...
... faith engag'd , Your military ' obedience , to dissolve Allegiance to th ' acknowledg'd Pow'r Supreme ? And thou , sly hypocrite , who now wouldst seem Patron of liberty , who more than thou Once fawn'd , and cring'd , and servilely ...
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... faith and realty 115 Remain not ! wherefore should not strength and might 120 There fail where virtue fails , or weakest prove Where boldest , though to sight unconquerable ? His puissance , trusting in th ' Almighty's aid , I mean to ...
... faith and realty 115 Remain not ! wherefore should not strength and might 120 There fail where virtue fails , or weakest prove Where boldest , though to sight unconquerable ? His puissance , trusting in th ' Almighty's aid , I mean to ...
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... faith Prefer , and piety to God , though then To thee not visible , when I alone Seem'd in thy world erroneous to dissent 145 From all : my sect thou seest ; now learn , too late , How few sometimes may know , when thousands err . Whom ...
... faith Prefer , and piety to God , though then To thee not visible , when I alone Seem'd in thy world erroneous to dissent 145 From all : my sect thou seest ; now learn , too late , How few sometimes may know , when thousands err . Whom ...
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... faith , 325 Amid the garden , by the tree of life , 330 Remember what I warn thee : Shun to taste , And shun the bitter consequence ; for know , The day thou eat'st thereof , my sole command Transgress'd , inevitably thou shalt die ...
... faith , 325 Amid the garden , by the tree of life , 330 Remember what I warn thee : Shun to taste , And shun the bitter consequence ; for know , The day thou eat'st thereof , my sole command Transgress'd , inevitably thou shalt die ...
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Page 3 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 23 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page xix - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 74 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 9 - And reassembling our afflicted powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair.
Page 74 - Those other two, equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 10 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 104 - What feign'd submission swore? Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Page 103 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Page 74 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...