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... thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize , Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease ; And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so strong , so equal , and so soft : The bird , named from that Paradise you sing ...
... thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize , Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease ; And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so strong , so equal , and so soft : The bird , named from that Paradise you sing ...
Page 94
... thee , must commend : Thy verse created , like thy theme , sublime , In number , weight , and measure , needs not rhime . EPIGRAM ON MILTON . BY DRYDEN . THREE Poets , in three distant ages born , Greece , Italy , and England , did ...
... thee , must commend : Thy verse created , like thy theme , sublime , In number , weight , and measure , needs not rhime . EPIGRAM ON MILTON . BY DRYDEN . THREE Poets , in three distant ages born , Greece , Italy , and England , did ...
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... thee to the Latian shore ; Each scene , that Tiber's bank supply'd ; Each grace , that play'd on Arno's side The tepid gales , through Tuscan glades that fly ; The blue serene , that spreads Hesperia's sky ; Were still thine own : thy ...
... thee to the Latian shore ; Each scene , that Tiber's bank supply'd ; Each grace , that play'd on Arno's side The tepid gales , through Tuscan glades that fly ; The blue serene , that spreads Hesperia's sky ; Were still thine own : thy ...
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... thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song ; That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in ...
... thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song ; That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in ...
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... thee . Retire , or taste thy folly ' , and learn by proof , Hell - born , not to contend with Spirits of Heaven . " To whom the goblin full of wrath replied : " Art thou that traitor - Angel , art thou 148 B. II . PARADISE LOST .
... thee . Retire , or taste thy folly ' , and learn by proof , Hell - born , not to contend with Spirits of Heaven . " To whom the goblin full of wrath replied : " Art thou that traitor - Angel , art thou 148 B. II . PARADISE LOST .
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Abdiel Adam Almighty angels appear'd arm'd arms battle Beelzebub behold blank verse bliss burning lake call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim clouds Comus dark daughter death deep delight divine dread earth eternal etherial evil eyes fair Fair Angel fall Father fear fell fire flames friends Gabriel glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heaven heavenly Hell highth hill hope host infernal Ithuriel John Milton join'd King Latin less light Lycidas mankind Messiah Milton mind Moloch nature never night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass'd perhaps poem poet poetry praise rage reason reign revenge rhyme round Satan seem'd seems Seraph Seraphim shade sight soon spake Spirits stood sweet Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself turn'd Uriel verse vex'd whence winds wings wonder Zephon
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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.