The British Poets, Volume 2Little, Brown & Company, 1866 |
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... once to ruin all mankind : Go therefore , half this day as friend with friend Converse with Adam , in what bower or shade 230 Thou find'st him from the heat of noon retir'd , To respit his day - labour with repast , Or with repose ; and ...
... once to ruin all mankind : Go therefore , half this day as friend with friend Converse with Adam , in what bower or shade 230 Thou find'st him from the heat of noon retir'd , To respit his day - labour with repast , Or with repose ; and ...
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Bright temple , to Egyptian Thebes he flies . At once on th ' eastern cliff of paradise 275 He lights , and to his proper shape returns A seraph wing'd : six wings he wore , to shade His lineaments divine ; the pair that clad Each ...
Bright temple , to Egyptian Thebes he flies . At once on th ' eastern cliff of paradise 275 He lights , and to his proper shape returns A seraph wing'd : six wings he wore , to shade His lineaments divine ; the pair that clad Each ...
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... once 565 570 And perfect while they stood ? how last unfold The secrets of another world , perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good , This is dispens'd , and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so , By lik ...
... once 565 570 And perfect while they stood ? how last unfold The secrets of another world , perhaps Not lawful to reveal ? yet for thy good , This is dispens'd , and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so , By lik ...
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... once ; with huge two - handed sway Brandish'd aloft the horrid edge came down 244 Tormented ] Tempested . Bentl . MS . Lod . Bryskett's M. Muse of Thestylis . ' Who , letting loose the winds , Tost , and tormented the air . Newton . 245 ...
... once ; with huge two - handed sway Brandish'd aloft the horrid edge came down 244 Tormented ] Tempested . Bentl . MS . Lod . Bryskett's M. Muse of Thestylis . ' Who , letting loose the winds , Tost , and tormented the air . Newton . 245 ...
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... once upright And faithful , now prov'd false ? But think not here To trouble holy rest ; heaven casts thee out From all her confines : heaven the seat of bliss Brooks not the works of violence and war . Hence then , and evil go with ...
... once upright And faithful , now prov'd false ? But think not here To trouble holy rest ; heaven casts thee out From all her confines : heaven the seat of bliss Brooks not the works of violence and war . Hence then , and evil go with ...
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Adam Adamus Exsul angels answer'd appear'd aught beast behold Bentl Bentley bliss bright call'd Canaan cherubim cloud creatures dark days of heaven death delight divine Du Bartas Dunster dwell Dyce earth eternal ev'ning evil eyes fair faith Father fear Fenton fruit glory ground hand happy hast hath heard heart heaven heavenly hell hill king lest light live mankind may'st Messiah Milton's own edition morn Newton nigh night Ovid Paradise PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAINED quĉ rais'd reign reply'd return'd sacred sapience Satan Saviour seat seem'd serpent Shakesp shalt sight Son of God soon spake Spens spirits stars stood sweet taste tempter thee thence thine things thither thou thou art thou hast thought throne thyself Todd tree turn'd vex'd Virg virtue voice wand'ring whence wings words
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Page 5 - Thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these Thy lowest works : yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels...
Page 228 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil ! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Page 6 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Page 1 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 167 - But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 106 - By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung, As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet : about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams ; by these, Creatures that liv'd and mov'd, and walk'd or flew ; Birds on the branches warbling ; all things smil'd With fragrance, and with joy my heart o'erflow'd.
Page 94 - To God's eternal house direct the way, A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest Powder'd with stars.
Page 1 - Why sleep'st thou, Eve? now is the pleasant time, The cool, the silent, save where silence yields To the night-warbling bird, that now awake Tunes sweetest his love-labour'd song, now reigns Full orb'd the moon, and with more pleasing light Shadowy sets off the face of things, in vain, If none regard; heaven wakes with all his eyes, Whom to behold but thee, nature's desire?
Page 102 - Rise on the earth ; or earth rise on the sun ; He from the east his flaming road begin, Or she from west her silent course advance, With inoffensive pace that spinning sleeps On her soft axle ; while she paces even, And bears thee soft with the smooth air along; Solicit not thy thoughts with matters hid ; Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.
Page 99 - Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide. Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric' scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...