The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... perhaps he brings , and will vouchsafe This day to be our guest . But go with speed , And what thy stores contain bring forth , and pour Abundance , fit to honour and receive 315 Our heavenly stranger ; well we may afford Our givers ...
... perhaps he brings , and will vouchsafe This day to be our guest . But go with speed , And what thy stores contain bring forth , and pour Abundance , fit to honour and receive 315 Our heavenly stranger ; well we may afford Our givers ...
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... perhaps , To spiritual natures : only this I know , That one celestial Father gives to all . 400 405 To whom the angel . Therefore what he gives , Whose praise be ever sung , to man in part Spiritual , may of purest spirits be found No ...
... perhaps , To spiritual natures : only this I know , That one celestial Father gives to all . 400 405 To whom the angel . Therefore what he gives , Whose praise be ever sung , to man in part Spiritual , may of purest spirits be found No ...
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... perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit , Improv'd by tract of time , and wing'd ascend Ethereal , as we , or may at choice Here or in heavenly paradises dwell ; If ye be found obedient , and retain Unalterably firm his love ...
... perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to spirit , Improv'd by tract of time , and wing'd ascend Ethereal , as we , or may at choice Here or in heavenly paradises dwell ; If ye be found obedient , and retain Unalterably firm his love ...
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... perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good , This is dispens'd , and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so , By lik'ning spiritual to corporal forms , As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but ...
... perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good , This is dispens'd , and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so , By lik'ning spiritual to corporal forms , As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but ...
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... perhaps more valid arms , Weapons more violent , when next we meet , May serve to better us , and worse our foes : Or equal what between us made the odds , In nature none : if other hidden cause Left them superior , while we can ...
... perhaps more valid arms , Weapons more violent , when next we meet , May serve to better us , and worse our foes : Or equal what between us made the odds , In nature none : if other hidden cause Left them superior , while we can ...
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Page 37 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 6 - Reason as chief. Among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell when Nature rests.
Page 173 - But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 21 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours ; Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Page 280 - So shall the World go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning, till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked...
Page 281 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 358 - Think not but that I know these things; or, think I know them not, not therefore am I short Of knowing what I ought. He who receives Light from above, from the Fountain of Light, No other doctrine needs, though granted true; 290 But these are false, or little else but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.
Page 129 - Nor skill'd nor studious, higher argument Remains ; sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing 45 Depress'd ; and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers, who brings it nightly to my ear.
Page 8 - 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 214 - And straight conjunction with this sex : for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...