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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... seeking relief and joy in imaginings of unseen and ideal being . This view of our nature , which has never been fully developed , and which goes further towards explaining the contradictions of human life than all others , carries us to ...
... seeking relief and joy in imaginings of unseen and ideal being . This view of our nature , which has never been fully developed , and which goes further towards explaining the contradictions of human life than all others , carries us to ...
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... seek to bring forth good , Our labour must be to pervert that end , And out of good still to find means of evil , Which oft - times may succeed , so as perhaps Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb His inmost counsels from ...
... seek to bring forth good , Our labour must be to pervert that end , And out of good still to find means of evil , Which oft - times may succeed , so as perhaps Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb His inmost counsels from ...
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... seek their prey on earth , durst fix Their seats long after next the seat of God , Their altars by his altar , gods adored Among the nations round , and durst abide Jehovah thundering out of Sion , throned Between the cherubim ; yea ...
... seek their prey on earth , durst fix Their seats long after next the seat of God , Their altars by his altar , gods adored Among the nations round , and durst abide Jehovah thundering out of Sion , throned Between the cherubim ; yea ...
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... seek Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel ' scape The infection , when their borrow'd gold composed The calf in Oreb ; and the rebel king Doubled that sin in Bethel and in Dan , Likening his ...
... seek Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel ' scape The infection , when their borrow'd gold composed The calf in Oreb ; and the rebel king Doubled that sin in Bethel and in Dan , Likening his ...
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... seek Our own good from ourselves , and from our own Live to ourselves , though in this vast recess , Free , and to none accountable , preferring Hard liberty , before the easy yoke , Of servile pomp . Our greatness will appear Then most ...
... seek Our own good from ourselves , and from our own Live to ourselves , though in this vast recess , Free , and to none accountable , preferring Hard liberty , before the easy yoke , Of servile pomp . Our greatness will appear Then most ...
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