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... fear'ft not , being fuch As we , not capable of death or pain , Can either not receive , or can repel . His fraud is then thy fear , which plain infers 285 Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be fhaken or feduc'd ...
... fear'ft not , being fuch As we , not capable of death or pain , Can either not receive , or can repel . His fraud is then thy fear , which plain infers 285 Thy equal fear that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be fhaken or feduc'd ...
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... fear of harm ? But harm precedes not fin : only our foe Tempting affronts us with his foul esteem Of our integrity : his foul efteem 325 Sticks no difhonor on our front , but turns 330 Foul on himself ; then wherefore fhunn'd or fear'd ...
... fear of harm ? But harm precedes not fin : only our foe Tempting affronts us with his foul esteem Of our integrity : his foul efteem 325 Sticks no difhonor on our front , but turns 330 Foul on himself ; then wherefore fhunn'd or fear'd ...
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... fear'd To interrupt , fide - long he works his way . As when a fhip by skilful steerfman wrought Nigh river's mouth or foreland , where the wind Veers oft , as oft fo fteers , and fhifts her fail : So varied he , and of his tortuous ...
... fear'd To interrupt , fide - long he works his way . As when a fhip by skilful steerfman wrought Nigh river's mouth or foreland , where the wind Veers oft , as oft fo fteers , and fhifts her fail : So varied he , and of his tortuous ...
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... fear'd 535 Thy awful brow , more awful thus retir'd . Faireft refemblance of thy Maker fair , Thee all things living gaze on , all things thine By gift , and thy celestial beauty ' adore 540 With ravishment beheld , there beft beheld ...
... fear'd 535 Thy awful brow , more awful thus retir'd . Faireft refemblance of thy Maker fair , Thee all things living gaze on , all things thine By gift , and thy celestial beauty ' adore 540 With ravishment beheld , there beft beheld ...
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... fear itfelf of death removes the fear . Why then was this forbid ? Why but to awe , Why but to keep you low and ignorant , His worshippers ; he knows that in the day Ye eat thereof , your eyes that seem so clear , Yet are but dim ...
... fear itfelf of death removes the fear . Why then was this forbid ? Why but to awe , Why but to keep you low and ignorant , His worshippers ; he knows that in the day Ye eat thereof , your eyes that seem so clear , Yet are but dim ...
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Page 28 - Without copartner ? so to add what wants In female sex, the more to draw his love, And render me more equal; and, perhaps, A thing not undesirable, sometime Superior; for, inferior, who is free ? This may be well: but what if God have seen.
Page 8 - Adam, well may we labour still to dress This garden, still to tend plant, herb, and flower, Our pleasant task enjoin'd ; but, till more hands Aid us, the work under our labour grows, Luxurious by restraint ; what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides, Tending to wild.
Page 170 - The strength whereof sufficed him forty days ; Sometimes that with Elijah he partook, Or as a guest with Daniel at his pulse.
Page 94 - Present, and of his presence many a sign Still following thee, still compassing thee round With goodness and paternal love, his face Express, and of his steps the track divine.
Page 2 - Nor skilled, nor studious, higher argument Remains, sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing Depressed, and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers who brings it nightly to my ear.
Page 135 - So shall the World go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning, till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked...
Page 92 - With what to sight or smell was sweet, from thee How shall I part, and whither wander down Into a lower world, to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Less pure, accustom'd to immortal fruits?
Page 14 - Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew ; and like a wood-nymph light, Oread or Dryad, or of Delia's train, Betook her to the groves, but Delia's self In gait...
Page 136 - ... observe His providence; and on Him sole depend, Merciful over all His works, with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things, by things...
Page 24 - Why then was this forbid ? Why but to awe, Why but to keep ye low and ignorant, His worshippers...