The works of the English poets. With prefaces, biographical and critical, by S. Johnson, Volume 101790 |
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Page 13
... Receive thy new poffeffor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heaven , What matter where , if I be still the same , And what I ...
... Receive thy new poffeffor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heaven , What matter where , if I be still the same , And what I ...
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... receive Familiar the fierce heat , and void of pain ; 205 210 215 This horror will grow mild , this darkness light : Befides what hope the never - ending flight 220 Of future days may bring , what chance , what change Worth waiting ...
... receive Familiar the fierce heat , and void of pain ; 205 210 215 This horror will grow mild , this darkness light : Befides what hope the never - ending flight 220 Of future days may bring , what chance , what change Worth waiting ...
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... receive Strict laws impos'd , to celebrate his throne With warbled hymns , and to his Godhead fing Forc'd Hallelujahs ; while he lordly fits Our envied sovran , and his altar breathes Ambrofial odors and ambrofial flowers , Our fervile ...
... receive Strict laws impos'd , to celebrate his throne With warbled hymns , and to his Godhead fing Forc'd Hallelujahs ; while he lordly fits Our envied sovran , and his altar breathes Ambrofial odors and ambrofial flowers , Our fervile ...
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... receives him next Wide gaping , and with utter lofs of being Threatens him , plung'd in that abortive gulf . If thence he scape into whatever world , Or unknown region , what remains him less VOL . X. E 435 440 Than Than unknown dangers ...
... receives him next Wide gaping , and with utter lofs of being Threatens him , plung'd in that abortive gulf . If thence he scape into whatever world , Or unknown region , what remains him less VOL . X. E 435 440 Than Than unknown dangers ...
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... receive ? What pleafure I from fuch obedience paid , When will and reafon ( reafon alfo ' is choice ) Useless and vain , of freedom both defpoil'd , Made paffive both , had ferv'd neceflity , Not me ? They therefore as to right belong'd ...
... receive ? What pleafure I from fuch obedience paid , When will and reafon ( reafon alfo ' is choice ) Useless and vain , of freedom both defpoil'd , Made paffive both , had ferv'd neceflity , Not me ? They therefore as to right belong'd ...
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Page 13 - Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 102 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 74 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 102 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Page 216 - The tawny lion, pawing to get free His hinder parts ; then springs, as broke from bonds, And rampant...
Page 234 - Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here ? Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent : Tell me how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know...
Page 57 - 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 monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
Page 138 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels; for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in Heaven, On earth join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 110 - The birds their quire apply ; airs, vernal airs, Breathing the smell of field and grove, attune The trembling leaves, while universal Pan, Knit with the Graces and the Hours in dance, Led on the eternal Spring.
Page 234 - Thou sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here?