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... nature . He was a man of vast mental power . He writes this poem after being a kind of secretary of state of the greatest nation on earth , in the time of its most gigantic struggles and greatest advance . In the great schemes of states ...
... nature . He was a man of vast mental power . He writes this poem after being a kind of secretary of state of the greatest nation on earth , in the time of its most gigantic struggles and greatest advance . In the great schemes of states ...
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... nature , will receive Familiar the fierce heat , and void of pain ; This horror will grow mild , this darkness light : Besides what hope the never - ending flight 210 220 Of future days may bring , what chance , what change , Worth ...
... nature , will receive Familiar the fierce heat , and void of pain ; This horror will grow mild , this darkness light : Besides what hope the never - ending flight 210 220 Of future days may bring , what chance , what change , Worth ...
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... nature breeds , Perverse , all monstrous , all prodigious things , Abominable , unutterable , and worse Than fables yet have feigned , or fear conceived , Gorgons , and Hydras , and Chimeras dire . Meanwhile the adversary of God and man ...
... nature breeds , Perverse , all monstrous , all prodigious things , Abominable , unutterable , and worse Than fables yet have feigned , or fear conceived , Gorgons , and Hydras , and Chimeras dire . Meanwhile the adversary of God and man ...
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... nature , hold Eternal anarchy , amidst the noise Of endless wars , and by confusion stand . For Hot , Cold , Moist , and Dry , four champions fierce , Strive here for mastery , and to battle bring Their embryon atoms : they around the ...
... nature , hold Eternal anarchy , amidst the noise Of endless wars , and by confusion stand . For Hot , Cold , Moist , and Dry , four champions fierce , Strive here for mastery , and to battle bring Their embryon atoms : they around the ...
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... Nature , and perhaps her grave , Of neither sea , nor shore , nor air , nor fire , But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly , and which thus must ever fight , Unless the almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to ...
... Nature , and perhaps her grave , Of neither sea , nor shore , nor air , nor fire , But all these in their pregnant causes mixed Confusedly , and which thus must ever fight , Unless the almighty Maker them ordain His dark materials to ...
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Page 294 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free ; To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Page 228 - So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
Page 307 - 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 279 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so ; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 90 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell ; myself am hell ; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Page 306 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers...
Page 304 - Softly on my eyelids laid. And as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen genius of the wood.
Page 294 - There on beds of violets blue And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek And love to live in dimple sleek; 30 Sport that wrinkled care derides, And laughter holding both his sides.
Page 288 - Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.