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Page 48
... round . ' This darkness , had his eyes been better employed , had undoubtedly deserved compassion ; but to add the mention 22 of danger was ungrateful and unjust . He was fallen indeed on evil days ; the time was come in which regicides ...
... round . ' This darkness , had his eyes been better employed , had undoubtedly deserved compassion ; but to add the mention 22 of danger was ungrateful and unjust . He was fallen indeed on evil days ; the time was come in which regicides ...
Page 97
... round the jealous steep , Strange shades o'erbrow the vallies deep , And holy Genii guard the rock , Its glooms embrown ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 97 From Gray's Progress of Poesy From Collins's Ode on the Poetical Character.
... round the jealous steep , Strange shades o'erbrow the vallies deep , And holy Genii guard the rock , Its glooms embrown ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 97 From Gray's Progress of Poesy From Collins's Ode on the Poetical Character.
Page 105
... round he throws his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate . At once , as far as angels ken , he views The dismal situation waste and wild . A dungeon horrible on all sides round ...
... round he throws his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate . At once , as far as angels ken , he views The dismal situation waste and wild . A dungeon horrible on all sides round ...
Page 112
... round , Behind him cast : the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon , whose orb Through optic - glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesolé , Or in Valdarno ; to descry new lands , Rivers or ...
... round , Behind him cast : the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon , whose orb Through optic - glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesolé , Or in Valdarno ; to descry new lands , Rivers or ...
Page 114
... round the coast , up call'd a pitchy cloud Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darken'd all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing ...
... round the coast , up call'd a pitchy cloud Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darken'd all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing ...
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.