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Page 112
... stood ; and call'd His legions , angel - forms , who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa , where the ' Etrurian shades , High over - arch'd , imbower ; or scatter'd sedge ASTOR LIBRAR NY BHL ...
... stood ; and call'd His legions , angel - forms , who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa , where the ' Etrurian shades , High over - arch'd , imbower ; or scatter'd sedge ASTOR LIBRAR NY BHL ...
Page 114
... stood Their great Commander ; godlike shapes and forms Excelling human : princely Dignities ; And Powers that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial ; blotted out and rased By their ...
... stood Their great Commander ; godlike shapes and forms Excelling human : princely Dignities ; And Powers that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial ; blotted out and rased By their ...
Page 115
... stood on the bare strand , While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof . The chief were those , who , from the pit of Hell Roaming to seek their prey on earth , durst fix Their seats long after next the seat of God , Their altars by his ...
... stood on the bare strand , While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof . The chief were those , who , from the pit of Hell Roaming to seek their prey on earth , durst fix Their seats long after next the seat of God , Their altars by his ...
Page 117
... stood Her temple on the ' offensive mountain , built By that uxorious king , whose heart , though large , Beguiled by fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian ...
... stood Her temple on the ' offensive mountain , built By that uxorious king , whose heart , though large , Beguiled by fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian ...
Page 118
... stood Or altar smoked ; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars , when the priest Turns atheist ; as did Eli's sons , who fill'd With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he also reigns , And in luxurious ...
... stood Or altar smoked ; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars , when the priest Turns atheist ; as did Eli's sons , who fill'd With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he also reigns , And in luxurious ...
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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.