The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life of the Author and Dr. Channing's Essay on the Poetical Genius of MiltonMilner & Sowerby, 1865 - 537 pages |
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... Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape The one seemed woman to the waist , and fair But ended foul in many a scaly fold " & Book II line 648 . POETICAL WORKS JOHN MILTON Satan exalted sat , by merit.
... Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable shape The one seemed woman to the waist , and fair But ended foul in many a scaly fold " & Book II line 648 . POETICAL WORKS JOHN MILTON Satan exalted sat , by merit.
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... myrrh , and what the balmy reed , How nature paints her colours , how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet . Par . Lost , b . v . lines 1-25 . So cheer'd he his fair spouse , and she was. xiv DR . CHANNING'S ESSAY ON.
... myrrh , and what the balmy reed , How nature paints her colours , how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet . Par . Lost , b . v . lines 1-25 . So cheer'd he his fair spouse , and she was. xiv DR . CHANNING'S ESSAY ON.
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... fair spouse , and she was cheer'd , But silently a gentle tear let fall From either eye , and wiped them with her hair ; Two other precious drops that ready stood , Each in their crystal sluice , he ere they fell Kiss'd , as the ...
... fair spouse , and she was cheer'd , But silently a gentle tear let fall From either eye , and wiped them with her hair ; Two other precious drops that ready stood , Each in their crystal sluice , he ere they fell Kiss'd , as the ...
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... fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple ...
... fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple ...
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... fair Damascus , on the fertile banks Of Abana and Pharpar , lucid streams . He also against the house of God was bold : A leper once he lost , and gain'd a king ; Ahaz his sottish conqueror , whom he drew God's altar to disparage and ...
... fair Damascus , on the fertile banks Of Abana and Pharpar , lucid streams . He also against the house of God was bold : A leper once he lost , and gain'd a king ; Ahaz his sottish conqueror , whom he drew God's altar to disparage and ...
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