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... light of reason and of conscience ; mine keeps from my view only the coloured surfaces of things , while it leaves me at liberty to con- template the beauty and stability of virtue and of truth . There is , as the Apostle hath remarked ...
... light of reason and of conscience ; mine keeps from my view only the coloured surfaces of things , while it leaves me at liberty to con- template the beauty and stability of virtue and of truth . There is , as the Apostle hath remarked ...
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... light dazzled out of my shut eyes ; and as my sight diminished every day , colours gradually more obscure flashed out with vehemence . But now that the lucid is in a manner wholly extinct , a direct blackness , or else spotted , and as ...
... light dazzled out of my shut eyes ; and as my sight diminished every day , colours gradually more obscure flashed out with vehemence . But now that the lucid is in a manner wholly extinct , a direct blackness , or else spotted , and as ...
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... light thing ; and after supper he smoked his pipe ; drank a glass of water ; and went to bed . In summer he would sometimes sit at the door of his house , and there receive his visitors . His youngest daughter , who was his favourite ...
... light thing ; and after supper he smoked his pipe ; drank a glass of water ; and went to bed . In summer he would sometimes sit at the door of his house , and there receive his visitors . His youngest daughter , who was his favourite ...
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... light . copy of it was lodged in the Prerogative Court , soon after his death , by his brother , the chief witness , and ran thus : - " The portion due to me from Mr. Powell , my former wife's father , I leave to the unkind children I ...
... light . copy of it was lodged in the Prerogative Court , soon after his death , by his brother , the chief witness , and ran thus : - " The portion due to me from Mr. Powell , my former wife's father , I leave to the unkind children I ...
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... light ; but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe ! 65 Regions of sorrow ! doleful shades ! where peace And rest can never dwell ! hope never comes , That comes to all ! but torture without end Still urges , and ...
... light ; but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe ! 65 Regions of sorrow ! doleful shades ! where peace And rest can never dwell ! hope never comes , That comes to all ! but torture without end Still urges , and ...
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Page 3 - Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar 15 Above th' Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose, or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O SPIRIT ! that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for Thou knowest: Thou from the first
Page xi - the invocation of Dame Memory, and her Syren daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 10 - shield, 285 Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast: the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ev'ning, from the top of Fesole, 290 Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His
Page 10 - Here for his envy;—will not drive us hence : " Here we may reign secure; and, in my choice, ," To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: " Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven. " But wherefore let we then our faithful friends, 265 " The associates and copartners of our loss,
Page 172 - Till, warn'd, or by experience taught, she learn, " That not to know at large of things remote " From use, obscure and subtle, but to know " That which before us lies in daily life, " Is the prime wisdom: what is more, is fume, 195 " Or emptiness, or fond impertinence; " And renders us, in things that most concern,
Page 95 - Him first, him last, him midst, and without end! " Fairest of stars! last in the train of night, " If better thou belong not to the dawn,— " Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn " With thy bright circlet,—praise him in thy sphere, 170 " While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 87 - slunk;—all but the wakeful nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Page 77 - slunk;—all but the wakeful nightingale ; She, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament 605 With living sapphires; Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest; till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen, unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Page 83 - 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. " O, then, at last relent! Is there no place 80 " Left for repentance ? none for pardon left ?— " None left, but by submission ! and that word
Page 10 - is its own place, and in itself 255 " Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. " What matter where, if I be still the same, " And what I should be,—all but less than He | " Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least " We shall be free ; th