English Poems, Volume 2Clarendon Press, 1880 - English poetry |
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... fear ; Of other creatures , as him pleases best , Wherever plac't , let him dispose : joy thou In what he gives to thee , this Paradise 170 And thy fair Eve ; heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there ; be lowly wise ...
... fear ; Of other creatures , as him pleases best , Wherever plac't , let him dispose : joy thou In what he gives to thee , this Paradise 170 And thy fair Eve ; heav'n is for thee too high To know what passes there ; be lowly wise ...
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... in the garden grows Eat freely with glad heart ; fear here no dearth : But of the tree , whose operation brings Knowledge of good and ill , which I have set 320 The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith , Amid PARADISE LOST . VIII . 29.
... in the garden grows Eat freely with glad heart ; fear here no dearth : But of the tree , whose operation brings Knowledge of good and ill , which I have set 320 The pledge of thy obedience and thy faith , Amid PARADISE LOST . VIII . 29.
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... fear'st not , being such , As we , not capable of death or pain , Can either not receive , or can repel . His fraud is then thy fear , which plain infers 285 Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shak'n or seduc ...
... fear'st not , being such , As we , not capable of death or pain , Can either not receive , or can repel . His fraud is then thy fear , which plain infers 285 Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shak'n or seduc ...
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... fear of harm ? But harm precedes not sin : only our Foe Tempting , affronts us with his foul esteem Of our integrity : his foul esteem 325 Sticks no dishonour on our front , but turns 330 Foul on himself : then wherefore shunn'd or fear ...
... fear of harm ? But harm precedes not sin : only our Foe Tempting , affronts us with his foul esteem Of our integrity : his foul esteem 325 Sticks no dishonour on our front , but turns 330 Foul on himself : then wherefore shunn'd or fear ...
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... fear'd To interrupt , side - long he works his way . As when a ship by skilful steersman wrought Nigh river's mouth or foreland , where the wind Veers off , as oft so steers , and shifts her sail ; So varied he , and of his tortuous ...
... fear'd To interrupt , side - long he works his way . As when a ship by skilful steersman wrought Nigh river's mouth or foreland , where the wind Veers off , as oft so steers , and shifts her sail ; So varied he , and of his tortuous ...
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Adam Æneid angel aught beast behold call'd Chorus Cicero cloud Comus creatures Dagon dark death deeds delight divine dwell E. P. and P. L. Earth enemies Euripides evil eyes Faery Queene fair faith Father fear fruit Georgics giv'n glory gods hand Harapha hath heard heart Heav'n Heav'nly Hell highth hither honour Horace Iliad Keightley king labour lest light live Lord Manoa Metamorphoses Milton mind nigh night Odes Ovid Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Psalm rais'd reign repli'd return'd round Samson Samson Agonistes Satan Saviour seat seem'd sense serpent Shakespeare shalt shame sight Son of God soon Sophocles spake Spenser spirit stood strength sweet taste Tempter Thebez thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tree turn'd viii virtue voice Wedgwood whence wings words
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Page 60 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 209 - To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day! O first created beam, and thou great Word, Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree?
Page 150 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 139 - And evil turn to good; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness ! Full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of sin By me done and occasion'd, or rejoice Much more, that much more good thereof shall spring; To God more glory, more good will to men From God, and over wrath grace shall abound.
Page 210 - And buried ; but, O yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave ; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains, and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Page 16 - But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God supreme, who made him chief •Of all his works : therefore the omnipotent Eternal Father, for where is not he Present?
Page 208 - Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke. Yet stay, let me not rashly call in doubt Divine prediction...
Page 335 - ... to be an interpreter and relater of the best and sagest things among mine own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect, that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I, in my proportion, with this over and above, of being a christian, might do for mine...
Page 336 - Teaching over the whole book of sanctity and virtue, through all the instances of example, with such delight to those especially of soft and delicious temper, who will not so much as look upon truth herself, unless they see her elegantly dressed...
Page 142 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...