The Poetical Works of John Milton ...Bell and Daldy, 1866 - Poetry |
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... didst plead Divine impulsion prompting how thou might'st Find some occasion to infest our foes . 425 I state not that ; this I am sure , our foes Found soon occasion thereby to make thee Their captive and their triumph ; thou the sooner ...
... didst plead Divine impulsion prompting how thou might'st Find some occasion to infest our foes . 425 I state not that ; this I am sure , our foes Found soon occasion thereby to make thee Their captive and their triumph ; thou the sooner ...
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... didst exalt them high , Unseemly falls in human eye , Too grievous for the trespass of omission ; Oft leav'st them to the hostile sword Of heathen and profane , their carcasses 690 To dogs and fowls a prey , or else captív'd ; 694 Or to ...
... didst exalt them high , Unseemly falls in human eye , Too grievous for the trespass of omission ; Oft leav'st them to the hostile sword Of heathen and profane , their carcasses 690 To dogs and fowls a prey , or else captív'd ; 694 Or to ...
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... Didst thou at first receive me for thy husband , Then , as since then , thy country's foe profess'd ? Being once a wife , for me thou wast to leave 885 Parents and country ; nor was I their subject , Nor under their protection but my ...
... Didst thou at first receive me for thy husband , Then , as since then , thy country's foe profess'd ? Being once a wife , for me thou wast to leave 885 Parents and country ; nor was I their subject , Nor under their protection but my ...
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... didst it ; gods unable To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes But by ungodly deeds , the contradiction Of their own deity , gods cannot be ; Less therefore to be pleas'd , obey'd , or fear'd . 960 These false pretexts and varnish ...
... didst it ; gods unable To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes But by ungodly deeds , the contradiction Of their own deity , gods cannot be ; Less therefore to be pleas'd , obey'd , or fear'd . 960 These false pretexts and varnish ...
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... didst take thy VII . Wert thou some star which from the ruin'd roof Of shak'd Olympus by mischance didst fall ; Which careful Jove in nature's true behoof Took up , and in fit place did reinstall ? Or did of late earth's sons besiege ...
... didst take thy VII . Wert thou some star which from the ruin'd roof Of shak'd Olympus by mischance didst fall ; Which careful Jove in nature's true behoof Took up , and in fit place did reinstall ? Or did of late earth's sons besiege ...
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