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... wife , where danger or difhonor lurks , Safeft and feemlieft by her husband stays , Who guards her , or with her the worst indures . To whom the virgin majefty of Eve , As one who loves , and fome unkindnefs meets , With feet auftere ...
... wife , where danger or difhonor lurks , Safeft and feemlieft by her husband stays , Who guards her , or with her the worst indures . To whom the virgin majefty of Eve , As one who loves , and fome unkindnefs meets , With feet auftere ...
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... wife , more watchful , stronger , if need were Of outward strength ; while fhame , thou looking on , Shame to be overcome or over - reach'd Would utmost vigor raise , and rais'd unite . Why shouldst not thou like sense within thee feel ...
... wife , more watchful , stronger , if need were Of outward strength ; while fhame , thou looking on , Shame to be overcome or over - reach'd Would utmost vigor raise , and rais'd unite . Why shouldst not thou like sense within thee feel ...
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... wife , As not fecure to fingle or combin'd . Frail is our happiness , if this be fo , And Eden were no Eden thus expos'd . To whom thus Adam fervently reply'd . O Woman , best are all things as the will Of God ordain'd them ; his ...
... wife , As not fecure to fingle or combin'd . Frail is our happiness , if this be fo , And Eden were no Eden thus expos'd . To whom thus Adam fervently reply'd . O Woman , best are all things as the will Of God ordain'd them ; his ...
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... wife , and wisdom - giving Plant , Mother of science , now I feel thy power Within me clear , not only to difcern Things in their causes , but to trace the ways 675 680 of Of highest agents , deem'd however wife . Queen of Book IX ...
... wife , and wisdom - giving Plant , Mother of science , now I feel thy power Within me clear , not only to difcern Things in their causes , but to trace the ways 675 680 of Of highest agents , deem'd however wife . Queen of Book IX ...
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Samuel Johnson. Of highest agents , deem'd however wife . Queen of this univerfe , do not believe Those rigid threats of death ; ye shall not die : How fhould you ? by the fruit ? it gives you life To knowledge ; by the threatner ? look ...
Samuel Johnson. Of highest agents , deem'd however wife . Queen of this univerfe , do not believe Those rigid threats of death ; ye shall not die : How fhould you ? by the fruit ? it gives you life To knowledge ; by the threatner ? look ...
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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...