The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorBooksellers, 1829 - 375 pages |
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... Fair angel ! thy desire which tends to know The works of God , thereby to glorify The great Work- Master , leads to no excess That reaches blame , but rather merits praise The more it seems excess , that led thee hither . From thy ...
... Fair angel ! thy desire which tends to know The works of God , thereby to glorify The great Work- Master , leads to no excess That reaches blame , but rather merits praise The more it seems excess , that led thee hither . From thy ...
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... fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule ; hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly ... angel , for they thought no ill : So hand in hand they pass'd , the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces ...
... fair large front and eye sublime declar'd Absolute rule ; hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly ... angel , for they thought no ill : So hand in hand they pass'd , the loveliest pair That ever since in love's embraces ...
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... angel to our sire Brought her , in naked beauty more adorn'd , More lovely than Pandora ; whom the gods Endow'd with ... fair looks , to be aveng'd On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire . Thus , at their shady lodge arriv'd , both ...
... angel to our sire Brought her , in naked beauty more adorn'd , More lovely than Pandora ; whom the gods Endow'd with ... fair looks , to be aveng'd On him who had stole Jove's authentic fire . Thus , at their shady lodge arriv'd , both ...
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... fair Than wood - nymph , or the fairest goddess feign'd Of three that in mount Ida naked strove , Stood to ' entertain her guest from heaven : no veil She needed , virtue proof ; no thought infirm Alter'd her cheek . On whom the angel ...
... fair Than wood - nymph , or the fairest goddess feign'd Of three that in mount Ida naked strove , Stood to ' entertain her guest from heaven : no veil She needed , virtue proof ; no thought infirm Alter'd her cheek . On whom the angel ...
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To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author John Milton. By thousands , angel on archangel roll'd ; The sooner for their ... fair with open front And breast ( what could we more ? ) propounded terms Of composition , straight they chang'd ...
To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author John Milton. By thousands , angel on archangel roll'd ; The sooner for their ... fair with open front And breast ( what could we more ? ) propounded terms Of composition , straight they chang'd ...
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Page 35 - Hell-doom'd, and breath'st defiance here and scorn, Where I reign king, and, to enrage thee more, Thy king and lord? Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or, with one stroke of this dart, Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.
Page 315 - Why am I thus bereaved 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 85 - But know, that in the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief ; among these, fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, airy shapes, Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell when nature rests.
Page 16 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 125 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the muse defend Her son. So fail not thou, who thee implores; For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.
Page 206 - His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap ? There I should rest, And sleep secure...
Page 265 - And now by some 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.
Page 142 - Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes — perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven, And calculate the stars; how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, orb in orb.
Page 4 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire, that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath...
Page 154 - In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges ; hath his seat In reason, and is judicious ; is the scale By which to heavenly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure ; for which cause, Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.