The Works of the British Poets: Selected and Chronologically Arranged from Ben Johnson to Beattie. With Biographical and Critical Notices, Volume 1D. Appleton & Company, 1866 - English poetry |
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... Israel in Sittim , on their march from Nile , To do him wanton rites , which cost them woe . Yet thence his lustful orgies he enlarg'd Even to that hill of scandal , by the grove Of Moloch homicide ; lust hard by hate ; Till good Josiah ...
... Israel in Sittim , on their march from Nile , To do him wanton rites , which cost them woe . Yet thence his lustful orgies he enlarg'd Even to that hill of scandal , by the grove Of Moloch homicide ; lust hard by hate ; Till good Josiah ...
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... Israel oft forsook Their living strength , and unfrequented left His righteous altar , bowing lowly down To bestial gods ; for which their heads as low Bow'd down in battle , sunk before the spear Of despicable foes . With these in ...
... Israel oft forsook Their living strength , and unfrequented left His righteous altar , bowing lowly down To bestial gods ; for which their heads as low Bow'd down in battle , sunk before the spear Of despicable foes . With these in ...
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... Israel overcome ! So call the third From Abraham , son of Isaac ; and from him His whole descent , who thus shall Canaan win . " Here Adam interpos'd . " O sent from Heaven , Safe to eternal Paradise of rest . Meanwhile they , in their ...
... Israel overcome ! So call the third From Abraham , son of Isaac ; and from him His whole descent , who thus shall Canaan win . " Here Adam interpos'd . " O sent from Heaven , Safe to eternal Paradise of rest . Meanwhile they , in their ...
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... Israel born . Just Simeon and prophetic Anna , warn'd By vision , found thee in the temple , and spake , Before the altar and the vested priest , Like things of thee to all that present stood .'- This having heard , straight I again ...
... Israel born . Just Simeon and prophetic Anna , warn'd By vision , found thee in the temple , and spake , Before the altar and the vested priest , Like things of thee to all that present stood .'- This having heard , straight I again ...
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... , deliverance is at hand , The kingdom shall to Israel be restor❜d ; Thus we rejoic'd , but soon our joy is turn'd Into perplexity and new amaze : For whither is he gone , what accident Hath rapt 16 BOOK II . 113 PARADISE REGAINED .
... , deliverance is at hand , The kingdom shall to Israel be restor❜d ; Thus we rejoic'd , but soon our joy is turn'd Into perplexity and new amaze : For whither is he gone , what accident Hath rapt 16 BOOK II . 113 PARADISE REGAINED .
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