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Page 81
... wings of wit ; the mind sinks under them in passive helplessness , content with calm belief and humble adoration . Known truths , however , may take a different ap- pearance , and be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate ...
... wings of wit ; the mind sinks under them in passive helplessness , content with calm belief and humble adoration . Known truths , however , may take a different ap- pearance , and be conveyed to the mind by a new train of intermediate ...
Page 93
... sing , So never flags , but always keeps on wing . Where couldst thou words of such a compass find ? Whence furnish such a vast expanse of mind ? Just Heaven thee , like Tiresias , to requite , 1 2 ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 93.
... sing , So never flags , but always keeps on wing . Where couldst thou words of such a compass find ? Whence furnish such a vast expanse of mind ? Just Heaven thee , like Tiresias , to requite , 1 2 ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 93.
Page 97
... wings of ecstasy ; The secrets of the abyss to spy , He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time : The living throne , the sapphire blaze , Where Angels tremble while they gaze , He saw ; but , blasted with excess of light , Closed ...
... wings of ecstasy ; The secrets of the abyss to spy , He pass'd the flaming bounds of place and time : The living throne , the sapphire blaze , Where Angels tremble while they gaze , He saw ; but , blasted with excess of light , Closed ...
Page 100
... in his word sagacious . Such too thine , MILTON , whose genius had angelic wings , And fed on manna.- THE VERSE * . THE measure is English heroic verse 100 ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . From Cowper's Table Talk From the same Author's Task, B III.
... in his word sagacious . Such too thine , MILTON , whose genius had angelic wings , And fed on manna.- THE VERSE * . THE measure is English heroic verse 100 ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . From Cowper's Table Talk From the same Author's Task, B III.
Page 104
... wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And madest it pregnant : what in me is dark , Illumine : what is low , raise and support ; That , to the highth of this great argument , I may assert Eternal Providence ...
... wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And madest it pregnant : what in me is dark , Illumine : what is low , raise and support ; That , to the highth of this great argument , I may assert Eternal Providence ...
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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.