The works of John Milton in verse and prose, with a life of the author by J. Mitford, Volume 31851 |
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... thou lift thy horn , Impudent whoore , where haft thou plac'd thy hope ? In thy Adulterers , or thy ill got wealth ? Another Conftantine comes not in haft . Ariofto of Ferrara after both these in time , but equall in fame , following ...
... thou lift thy horn , Impudent whoore , where haft thou plac'd thy hope ? In thy Adulterers , or thy ill got wealth ? Another Conftantine comes not in haft . Ariofto of Ferrara after both these in time , but equall in fame , following ...
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... thou ( quoth he ) that art but a bottle of vitious and harden'd excrements , contend with the lawfull and free - borne members , whofe certaine number is fet by ancient , and unrepealable Statute ? head thou art none , though thou ...
... thou ( quoth he ) that art but a bottle of vitious and harden'd excrements , contend with the lawfull and free - borne members , whofe certaine number is fet by ancient , and unrepealable Statute ? head thou art none , though thou ...
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... thou containst no good thing in thee , but a heape of hard , and loathsome uncleannes , and art to the head a foul disfigurment and burden , when I have cut thee off , and open'd thee , as by the help of these implements I will doe ...
... thou containst no good thing in thee , but a heape of hard , and loathsome uncleannes , and art to the head a foul disfigurment and burden , when I have cut thee off , and open'd thee , as by the help of these implements I will doe ...
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... Thou therefore that fits't in light & glory unap- prochable , Parent of Angels and Men ! next thee I implore Omnipotent King , Redeemer of that loft remnant whose nature thou didst affume , ineffable and everlasting Love ! And thou the ...
... Thou therefore that fits't in light & glory unap- prochable , Parent of Angels and Men ! next thee I implore Omnipotent King , Redeemer of that loft remnant whose nature thou didst affume , ineffable and everlasting Love ! And thou the ...
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... thou that after the impetuous rage of five bloody Inundations , and the fucceeding Sword of inteftine Warre , foaking the Land in her owne gore , didft pitty the fad and ceafles revolution of our fwift and thick - comming forrowes when ...
... thou that after the impetuous rage of five bloody Inundations , and the fucceeding Sword of inteftine Warre , foaking the Land in her owne gore , didft pitty the fad and ceafles revolution of our fwift and thick - comming forrowes when ...
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Page 149 - Memory and her siren 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 68 - Thou therefore that sittest in light and glory unapproachable, Parent of angels and men! next thee I implore, omnipotent King, Redeemer of that lost remnant whose nature thou didst assume, ineffable and everlasting love! and thou, the third subsistence of divine infinitude, illumining Spirit, the joy and solace of created things! one Tripersonal godhead! look upon this thy poor and almost spent and expiring church...
Page 71 - But they contrary that by the impairing and diminution of the true Faith, the distresses and servitude of their Country...
Page 144 - I applied myself to that resolution, which Ariosto followed against the persuasions of Bembo, to fix all the industry and art I could unite to the adorning of my native tongue...
Page 148 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar...
Page 270 - I deplored; and above them all preferred the two famous renowners of Beatrice and Laura, who never write but honour of them to whom they devote their verse, displaying sublime and pure thoughts, without transgression.
Page 271 - Homer, to have written undecent things of the gods. Only this my mind gave me, that every free and gentle spirit without that oath ought to be...
Page 104 - This charge I commit unto thee, son Timothy, according to the prophecies which went before on thee, that thou by them mightest war a good warfare...
Page 493 - Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth ; and from thy face shall I be hid ; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth ; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
Page 144 - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.