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... praise , And some the architect : his hand was known In Heaven by many a towered structure high , Where sceptred angels held their residence , And sat as princes , whom the supreme King Exalted to such power , and gave to rule , Each in ...
... praise , And some the architect : his hand was known In Heaven by many a towered structure high , Where sceptred angels held their residence , And sat as princes , whom the supreme King Exalted to such power , and gave to rule , Each in ...
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... praises to his Father for the manifestation of his gracious purpose towards man ; but God again declares that grace cannot be extended towards man without the satisfaction of divine justice : man hath offended the majesty of God by ...
... praises to his Father for the manifestation of his gracious purpose towards man ; but God again declares that grace cannot be extended towards man without the satisfaction of divine justice : man hath offended the majesty of God by ...
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... praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid , When will and reason ( reason also is choice ) , Useless and vain , of freedom both despoiled , Made passive both , had served necessity , Not me ? They therefore as ...
... praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid , When will and reason ( reason also is choice ) , Useless and vain , of freedom both despoiled , Made passive both , had served necessity , Not me ? They therefore as ...
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... praises , with the innumerable sound Of hymns and sacred songs , wherewith thy throne Encompassed shall resound thee ever blessed . For should man finally be lost , should man , Thy creature late so loved , thy youngest son , Fall ...
... praises , with the innumerable sound Of hymns and sacred songs , wherewith thy throne Encompassed shall resound thee ever blessed . For should man finally be lost , should man , Thy creature late so loved , thy youngest son , Fall ...
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... praise Forget , nor from thy Father's praise disjoin . " Thus they in Heaven , above the starry sphere , Their happy hours in joy and hymning spent . Meanwhile upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world , whose first convex divides ...
... praise Forget , nor from thy Father's praise disjoin . " Thus they in Heaven , above the starry sphere , Their happy hours in joy and hymning spent . Meanwhile upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world , whose first convex divides ...
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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.