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Page 11
... shapes and forms Excelling human , princely dignities , And Pow'rs that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; 360 Though of their names in heav'nly records now Be no memorial , blotted out and rased By their rebellion from the books of life ...
... shapes and forms Excelling human , princely dignities , And Pow'rs that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; 360 Though of their names in heav'nly records now Be no memorial , blotted out and rased By their rebellion from the books of life ...
Page 13
... shape they choose Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure , Can execute their aƫry purposes , 430 And works of love or enmity fulfil . For those the race of Israel oft forsook Their living Strength , and unfrequented left His righteous ...
... shape they choose Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure , Can execute their aƫry purposes , 430 And works of love or enmity fulfil . For those the race of Israel oft forsook Their living Strength , and unfrequented left His righteous ...
Page 14
... shapes and sorceries abused Fanatic Egypt and her priests , to seek 480 Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel ' scape The infection , when their borrow'd gold composed The calf in Oreb ; and ...
... shapes and sorceries abused Fanatic Egypt and her priests , to seek 480 Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel ' scape The infection , when their borrow'd gold composed The calf in Oreb ; and ...
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... shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness , nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun , new risen , Looks through ...
... shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness , nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun , new risen , Looks through ...
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... shapes immense , and were at large , 790 Though without number still , amidst the hall Of that infernal court . But far within , And in their own dimensions like themselves , The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim , In close recess and ...
... shapes immense , and were at large , 790 Though without number still , amidst the hall Of that infernal court . But far within , And in their own dimensions like themselves , The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim , In close recess and ...
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