Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions, with a Tractate of Education. The Author John MiltonJ. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; and for T. and T. Longman, S. Birt, C. Hitch and L. Hawes, R. Ware [and 4 others in London], 1753 - 350 pages |
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... fome days Lodg'd in Bethabara where John baptiz'd , Mufing and much revolving in his breast , How beft the mighty work he might begin Of Saviour to mankind , and which way firft Publifh his God - like office now mature , 185 One day ...
... fome days Lodg'd in Bethabara where John baptiz'd , Mufing and much revolving in his breast , How beft the mighty work he might begin Of Saviour to mankind , and which way firft Publifh his God - like office now mature , 185 One day ...
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... fome strong motion I am led Into this wilderness , to what intent I learn not yet , perhaps I need not know ; For what concerns my knowledge God reveals . So fpake our Morning Star then in his rise , And looking round on every fide ...
... fome strong motion I am led Into this wilderness , to what intent I learn not yet , perhaps I need not know ; For what concerns my knowledge God reveals . So fpake our Morning Star then in his rise , And looking round on every fide ...
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... fome stray ewe , Or wither'd sticks to gather , which might ferve 316 Against a winter's day when winds blow keen , To warm him wet return'd from field at eve , He faw approach , who firft with curious eye Perus'd him , then with words ...
... fome stray ewe , Or wither'd sticks to gather , which might ferve 316 Against a winter's day when winds blow keen , To warm him wet return'd from field at eve , He faw approach , who firft with curious eye Perus'd him , then with words ...
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... fome great change ; to honor ? no , But trouble , as old Simeon plain foretold , That to the fall and rifing he should be Of many in Ifraël , and to a fign Spoken against , that through my very foul A fword fhall pierce ; this is my ...
... fome great change ; to honor ? no , But trouble , as old Simeon plain foretold , That to the fall and rifing he should be Of many in Ifraël , and to a fign Spoken against , that through my very foul A fword fhall pierce ; this is my ...
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... fome great purpose he obfcures . But I to wait with patience am inur'd ; My heart hath been a ftore - house long of things And fay'ings laid up , portending strange events . Thus Mary pond'ring oft , and oft to mind 105 Recalling what ...
... fome great purpose he obfcures . But I to wait with patience am inur'd ; My heart hath been a ftore - house long of things And fay'ings laid up , portending strange events . Thus Mary pond'ring oft , and oft to mind 105 Recalling what ...
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aftra againſt agni alfo Amor Atque befides beft beſt caft call'd CHOR choro Dagon darkneſs defert doft domino jam domum impafti doth earth eyes fafe fair fame fave feaſt fecret feek feem fent fhades fhall fhould fibi fide fing firft firſt foes folemn fome fong fonos foon foul fræna ftill ftrength fuch fure fweet glory Hæc hath Heav'n himſelf honor houſe Ifrael ille ipfe itſelf jam non vacat juft juſt king Lady laſt leaſt lefs loft Lord Ludlow town Lycidas malè mihi moſt muſt myſelf night numina nunc o'er Olympo PARADISE REGAIN'D pleaſure pow'r praiſe prefent PSAL quæ quid quoque reft reply'd Samfon SAMS ſhades ſhall ſtand ſtate ſtill ſtood ſtream thee thefe themſelves thence theſe thofe thoſe thou art throne thyfelf tibi Tu quoque ulmo virtue whofe worfe
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Page 214 - The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
Page 83 - Let there be lig;ht, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon. When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 216 - And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing, in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more ; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Page 162 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks...
Page 213 - And all their echoes, mourn. The Willows, and the Hazel Copses green, Shall now no more be seen, Fanning their joyous Leaves to thy soft lays. As killing as the Canker to the Rose...
Page 327 - ... the knowledge and the use of which cannot but be a great furtherance both to the enlargement of truth, and honest living with much more peace.
Page 143 - Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 329 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Page 213 - 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. But not the praise...
Page 152 - FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace ; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross ; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain.