The Works of the English Poets: MiltonH. Hughs, 1779 - English poetry |
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... enemies the fcorn and gaze ; To grind in brazen fetters under task 35 With this Heav'n - gifted strength ? O glorious strength Put to the labor of a beast , debas'd Lower than bond - flave ! Promife was that I Should Ifrael from ...
... enemies the fcorn and gaze ; To grind in brazen fetters under task 35 With this Heav'n - gifted strength ? O glorious strength Put to the labor of a beast , debas'd Lower than bond - flave ! Promife was that I Should Ifrael from ...
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... enemies , O worfe than chains , Dungeon , or beggary , or decrepit age ! Light the prime work of God to me ' is extinct , And all her various objects of delight 55 60 69 Annull'd , which might in part my grief have eas'd , Inferior to ...
... enemies , O worfe than chains , Dungeon , or beggary , or decrepit age ! Light the prime work of God to me ' is extinct , And all her various objects of delight 55 60 69 Annull'd , which might in part my grief have eas'd , Inferior to ...
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... , Life in captivity Among inhuman foes . But who are these ? for with joint pace I hear The tread of many feet fteering this way ; Perhaps my enemies who come to stare 110 At At my affliction , and perhaps t ' insult , MILTON'S POEMS .
... , Life in captivity Among inhuman foes . But who are these ? for with joint pace I hear The tread of many feet fteering this way ; Perhaps my enemies who come to stare 110 At At my affliction , and perhaps t ' insult , MILTON'S POEMS .
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... enemy , Thou never waft remifs , I bear thee witness : Yet Ifraël ftill ferves with all his fons . 240 SAMS . That fault I take not on me , but transfer On Ifrael's governors , and heads of tribes , Who seeing those great acts , which ...
... enemy , Thou never waft remifs , I bear thee witness : Yet Ifraël ftill ferves with all his fons . 240 SAMS . That fault I take not on me , but transfer On Ifrael's governors , and heads of tribes , Who seeing those great acts , which ...
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... enemy just cause To fet his people free , Have prompted this heroic Nazarite , Against his vow of strictest purity , To seek in marriage that fallacious bride , Unclean , unchaste . Down reason then , at least vain reasonings down , VOL ...
... enemy just cause To fet his people free , Have prompted this heroic Nazarite , Against his vow of strictest purity , To seek in marriage that fallacious bride , Unclean , unchaste . Down reason then , at least vain reasonings down , VOL ...
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Page 82 - Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. The stars, with deep amaze, Stand fix'd in steadfast gaze, Bending one way their precious influence : And will not take their flight, For all the morning light, Or Lucifer that often warn'd them thence ; But in their glimmering orbs did glow, Until their Lord himself bespake, and bid them go.
Page 65 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 183 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 180 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not ; in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks.
Page 109 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age, Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But O, sad Virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower, Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek.
Page 160 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill. Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Page 105 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 108 - But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song...
Page 11 - Let us not break in upon him. O change beyond report, thought, or belief!
Page 104 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...