Oeuvres completes, Volume 36Pourrat Freres, 1837 |
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... beast of the earth , Each in their kind . The earth obey'd , and straight Opening her fertile womb , teem'd at a birth Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown out of the ground up rose , As from his lair ...
... beast of the earth , Each in their kind . The earth obey'd , and straight Opening her fertile womb , teem'd at a birth Innumerous living creatures , perfect forms , Limb'd and full grown out of the ground up rose , As from his lair ...
Page 116
... beast of all the field , Of huge extent sometimes , with brazen eyes And hairy mane terrific , though to thee Not noxious , but obedient at thy call . Now heaven in all her glory shone , and roll'd Her motions , as the great first ...
... beast of all the field , Of huge extent sometimes , with brazen eyes And hairy mane terrific , though to thee Not noxious , but obedient at thy call . Now heaven in all her glory shone , and roll'd Her motions , as the great first ...
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... beast , was flown , was swum , was walk'd , Frequent ; and of the sixth day yet remain❜d : There wanted yet the master - work , the end Of all yet done ; a creature , who , not prone And brute as other creatures , but endued With ...
... beast , was flown , was swum , was walk'd , Frequent ; and of the sixth day yet remain❜d : There wanted yet the master - work , the end Of all yet done ; a creature , who , not prone And brute as other creatures , but endued With ...
Page 158
... beast , fish , and fowl . In sign whereof , each bird and beast behold After their kinds ; I bring them to receive From thee their names , and pay thee fealty With low subjection ; understand the same Of fish within their watery ...
... beast , fish , and fowl . In sign whereof , each bird and beast behold After their kinds ; I bring them to receive From thee their names , and pay thee fealty With low subjection ; understand the same Of fish within their watery ...
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... beast behold Approaching two and two ; these cowering low With blandishment ; each bird stoop'd on his wing . I named them as they pass'd , and understood Thier nature ; with such knowledge God endued My sudden apprehension : but in ...
... beast behold Approaching two and two ; these cowering low With blandishment ; each bird stoop'd on his wing . I named them as they pass'd , and understood Thier nature ; with such knowledge God endued My sudden apprehension : but in ...
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Adam ainsi angel anges après lui arbre armée autre avait avant bêtes bien bientôt c'est ce jour-là ce que céleste chemin chérubins choses ciel cœur colère contre côté crainte créatures d'abord d'eux d'une dans le death demeure deux devant DIEU Dieux divine doit doux droit earth élevé elle encore enfin ennemi espérance esprit été être ÈVE fair fait femme fils fois fruit gloire grand guerre hast hath haut heaven hommes humaine j'ai jamais joie jour jusqu'à l'air l'ange l'autre l'enfer l'homme le ciel le monde loin long-temps lumière maintenant monde mort n'est nuit par la Paradise pareil paroles péché peine pensées perdu PÈRE peut peut-être plein pouvoir premier présent puissance qu'elle qu'il qu'un que le race région Satan seem'd sera serpent seul soleil sous souvent temps terre tête thee thou tout trône trouvé vertu voir vois voix volonté yeux
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Page 174 - All higher Knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like Folly shows ; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness, their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 244 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat! Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 430 - With all his verdure spoil'd, and trees adrift, Down the great river to the opening gulf, And there take root, an island salt and bare, The haunt of seals, and ores, and sea-mews...
Page 220 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 406 - if thou well observe The rule of 'Not too much,' by temperance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight ; Till many years over thy head return, So may'st thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature : This is old age...
Page 144 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle ; but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 224 - With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 78 - Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues.
Page 390 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory Or monument to ages; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances, or footstep trace?
Page 348 - She ended weeping, and her lowly plight, Immovable till peace obtained from fault Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration; soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking, His counsel whom she had displeased, his aid; As one disarmed, his anger all he lost...