The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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Page 49
... Thou hast said a great deal upon Paradise Lost ; what hast thou to say upon Paradise Found ? ' 6 Next year , when the danger of infection had ceased , he returned to Bunhill - fields ; and designed the publication of his poem . A ...
... Thou hast said a great deal upon Paradise Lost ; what hast thou to say upon Paradise Found ? ' 6 Next year , when the danger of infection had ceased , he returned to Bunhill - fields ; and designed the publication of his poem . A ...
Page 93
... thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves , and 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 ...
... thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves , and 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 ...
Page 94
... thou scorn thy readers to allure With tinkling rhime , of thy own sense secure ; While the Town - Bays writes all the while and spells , And , like a pack - horse , tires without his bells : Their fancies like our bushy points appear ...
... thou scorn thy readers to allure With tinkling rhime , of thy own sense secure ; While the Town - Bays writes all the while and spells , And , like a pack - horse , tires without his bells : Their fancies like our bushy points appear ...
Page 99
... thou takest my soul , And waft'st it by thy potent harmony To that empyreal mansion , where thine ear Caught the soft warblings of a seraph's harp , What time the nightly visitant unlock'd The gates of Heaven , and to thy mental sight ...
... thou takest my soul , And waft'st it by thy potent harmony To that empyreal mansion , where thine ear Caught the soft warblings of a seraph's harp , What time the nightly visitant unlock'd The gates of Heaven , and to thy mental sight ...
Page 104
... Thou , O Spirit ! that dost prefer Before all temples the ' upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for Thou know'st : Thou from the first Wast present ; and , with mighty wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss ...
... Thou , O Spirit ! that dost prefer Before all temples the ' upright heart and pure , Instruct me , for Thou know'st : Thou from the first Wast present ; and , with mighty wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss ...
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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.