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... BROWNE , M.A. ASSOCIATE OF KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON NEW EDITION , REVISED VOL . II Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCC LXXX [ All rights reserved ] O MIGHTY - MOUTH'D INVENTOR OF HARMONIES , O SKILL'D Clarendon Press Series.
... BROWNE , M.A. ASSOCIATE OF KING'S COLLEGE , LONDON NEW EDITION , REVISED VOL . II Oxford AT THE CLARENDON PRESS M DCCC LXXX [ All rights reserved ] O MIGHTY - MOUTH'D INVENTOR OF HARMONIES , O SKILL'D Clarendon Press Series.
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... King , Only Omniscient , hath supprest in night , To none communicable in Earth or Heaven ; Enough is left besides to search and know . But knowledge is as food , and needs no less Her temperance over appetite , to know In measure what ...
... King , Only Omniscient , hath supprest in night , To none communicable in Earth or Heaven ; Enough is left besides to search and know . But knowledge is as food , and needs no less Her temperance over appetite , to know In measure what ...
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... King of Glory in his powerful Word And Spirit coming to create new worlds . 200 205 On Heav'nly ground they stood , and from the shore 210 They view'd the vast immeasurable abyss Outrageous as a sea 8 LAST POEMS , 1665-1671 .
... King of Glory in his powerful Word And Spirit coming to create new worlds . 200 205 On Heav'nly ground they stood , and from the shore 210 They view'd the vast immeasurable abyss Outrageous as a sea 8 LAST POEMS , 1665-1671 .
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... King , or bound Thy empire ? easily the proud attempt . Of spirits apostate and their counsels vain Thou hast repell'd , while impiously they thought Thee to diminish , and from thee withdraw The number of thy worshippers . Who seeks To ...
... King , or bound Thy empire ? easily the proud attempt . Of spirits apostate and their counsels vain Thou hast repell'd , while impiously they thought Thee to diminish , and from thee withdraw The number of thy worshippers . Who seeks To ...
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... King , and to inure Our prompt obedience . First we found , fast shut 240 The dismal gates , and barricado'd strong ; But long ere our approaching heard within Noise , other than the sound of dance or song , Torment , and loud lament ...
... King , and to inure Our prompt obedience . First we found , fast shut 240 The dismal gates , and barricado'd strong ; But long ere our approaching heard within Noise , other than the sound of dance or song , Torment , and loud lament ...
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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...