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Page 487
... glory , glory the reward That sole excites to high attempts the flame Of most erected spirits , most tempered pure Ethereal , who all pleasures else despise , All treasures and all gain esteem as dross , And dignities and powers , all ...
... glory , glory the reward That sole excites to high attempts the flame Of most erected spirits , most tempered pure Ethereal , who all pleasures else despise , All treasures and all gain esteem as dross , And dignities and powers , all ...
Page 488
... glory is false glory , attributed To things not glorious , men not worthy of fame . They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide , to overrun Large countries , and in field great battles win , Great cities by ...
... glory is false glory , attributed To things not glorious , men not worthy of fame . They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide , to overrun Large countries , and in field great battles win , Great cities by ...
Page 489
... glory aught be done , Aught suffered , if young African for fame His wasted country freed from Punic rage , The deed becomes unpraised , the man at least , And loses , though but verbal , his reward . Shall I seek glory then , as vain ...
... glory aught be done , Aught suffered , if young African for fame His wasted country freed from Punic rage , The deed becomes unpraised , the man at least , And loses , though but verbal , his reward . Shall I seek glory then , as vain ...
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To Charles Diodati | 9 |
On the Death of the Beadle of Cambridge | 16 |
In obitum Procancellarii medici On the Death of the ViceChancellor | 24 |
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Adam Adam and Eve amorous angels Areopagitica arms behold bliss bright cloud Comus dark death deep divine earth Elegy eternal Euripides evil Exod eyes fair faith father Faunus fear flow'rs fruit glory glossary God's goddess gods grace Greek hand hath heard heart heav'n heav'nly hell Hesiod hill honor Il Penseroso Iliad Jove king L'Allegro Latin light live Lord lost Lycidas Matt mihi Milton mind Muse night numina o'er Odysseus Ovid Paradise Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace perhaps Philistines Phoebus poem poet praise reign sacred Samson Satan serpent shade shalt sight Smectymnuus song Sonnet soon soul spake Spenser Spirit stars stood sweet thee thence Theocritus things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tibi traditional tree verse Virgil virtue winds wings words Zeus