The poetical works John Milton. Repr., with memoir, notes, &c, Issue 4771873 |
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... virtue , unexercised and unbreathed , that never sallies out and sees her adversary , but slinks out of the race ... virtue , therefore , which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil , and knows not the utmost that vice promises ...
... virtue , unexercised and unbreathed , that never sallies out and sees her adversary , but slinks out of the race ... virtue , therefore , which is but a youngling in the contemplation of evil , and knows not the utmost that vice promises ...
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John Milton. in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue , and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth , how can we more safely , and with less danger , scout into the regions of sin and falsity , than by ...
John Milton. in this world so necessary to the constituting of human virtue , and the scanning of error to the confirmation of truth , how can we more safely , and with less danger , scout into the regions of sin and falsity , than by ...
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... virtues fair A 1 This lady was the wife of John , Marquis of Winchester , one of the noblest and most devoted of the adhe- rents of Charles I. His house at Basing , in Hants , stood a two - years ' siege by the rebels , and was finally ...
... virtues fair A 1 This lady was the wife of John , Marquis of Winchester , one of the noblest and most devoted of the adhe- rents of Charles I. His house at Basing , in Hants , stood a two - years ' siege by the rebels , and was finally ...
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... virtue gives , After this mortal change , to her true servants , Amongst the enthroned Gods on sainted seats . The Spirit is called " Dæmon " in the Cambridge MS . - WARTON . 2 Crowded ; from pesta , a crowd . Yet some there be that by ...
... virtue gives , After this mortal change , to her true servants , Amongst the enthroned Gods on sainted seats . The Spirit is called " Dæmon " in the Cambridge MS . - WARTON . 2 Crowded ; from pesta , a crowd . Yet some there be that by ...
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... virtue of this magic dust , I shall appear some harmless villager , Whom thrift keeps up about his country gear . But here she comes , I fairly ' step aside , And hearken , if I may , her business here . The Lady enters . LADY . This ...
... virtue of this magic dust , I shall appear some harmless villager , Whom thrift keeps up about his country gear . But here she comes , I fairly ' step aside , And hearken , if I may , her business here . The Lady enters . LADY . This ...
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Page 482 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Page 68 - Weep no more, woeful shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor, So sinks the day-star in the ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new spangled ore Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page xiii - I know they are as lively and as vigorously productive as those fabulous dragon's teeth ; and, being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image ; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself ; kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. Many a man lives a burden to the earth ; but a good book is the precious life-blood of...
Page 22 - Robed in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight : While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 66 - That to the faithful herdman's art belongs ! What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread : Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said: — But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more.
Page 175 - Angels: for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 67 - Bring the rathe primrose that forsaken dies, The tufted crow-toe, and pale jessamine, The white pink, and the pansy freak'd with jet, The glowing violet, The musk-rose, and the well-attired woodbine, With cowslips wan that hang the pensive head, And every flower that sad embroidery wears : Bid amaranthus all his beauty shed, And daffodillies fill their cups with tears, To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
Page 70 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 160 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land ; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird ; nor walk by moon, Or glittering star-light, without thee is sweet.
Page 268 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...