Poetical WorksUnited States Book Company, 1891 |
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... a daughter of Mr. Powell , of Forrest Hill , Oxfordshire , a firm Royalist . This marriage , in its early stage , seemed very inauspicious ; for , either influenced by family considerations SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.
... a daughter of Mr. Powell , of Forrest Hill , Oxfordshire , a firm Royalist . This marriage , in its early stage , seemed very inauspicious ; for , either influenced by family considerations SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.
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... seemed In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless , like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount , or fairy elves , Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some ...
... seemed In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless , like that pygmean race Beyond the Indian mount , or fairy elves , Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some ...
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... seemed Far off the flying fiend : at last appear Hell bounds , high reaching to the horrid roof , And thrice threefold the gates ; threefolds were brass Three iron , three of adamantine rock , Impenetrable , impaled with circling fire ...
... seemed Far off the flying fiend : at last appear Hell bounds , high reaching to the horrid roof , And thrice threefold the gates ; threefolds were brass Three iron , three of adamantine rock , Impenetrable , impaled with circling fire ...
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... seemed , For each seemed either ; black it stood as night , Fierce as ten Furies , terrible as Hell , And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on . Satan was now at hand ; and from his seat The ...
... seemed , For each seemed either ; black it stood as night , Fierce as ten Furies , terrible as Hell , And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on . Satan was now at hand ; and from his seat The ...
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... seemed highly pleased , and Death Grinned horrible a ghastly smile , to hear His famine should be filled , and blessed his maw Destined to that good hour : no less rejoiced His mother bad , and thus bespake her sire : " The key of this ...
... seemed highly pleased , and Death Grinned horrible a ghastly smile , to hear His famine should be filled , and blessed his maw Destined to that good hour : no less rejoiced His mother bad , and thus bespake her sire : " The key of this ...
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