Oeuvres completes, Volume 36Pourrat Freres, 1837 |
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... heart explores : - O heaven ! that such resemblance of the Highest Should yet remain , where faith and realty Remain not wherefore should not strength and might There fail where virtue fails ? or weakest prove Where boldest , though to ...
... heart explores : - O heaven ! that such resemblance of the Highest Should yet remain , where faith and realty Remain not wherefore should not strength and might There fail where virtue fails ? or weakest prove Where boldest , though to ...
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... heart or head , liver or reins , Cannot but by annihilating die ; Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive , no more than can the fluid air : All heart they live , all head , all eye , all ear , All intellect , all sense ; and ...
... heart or head , liver or reins , Cannot but by annihilating die ; Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive , no more than can the fluid air : All heart they live , all head , all eye , all ear , All intellect , all sense ; and ...
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... heart ; but those elect Angels , contented with their fame in heaven , Seek not the praise of men : the other sort , In might though wondrous and in acts of war , Nor of renown less eager , yet by doom Cancel'd from heaven and sacred ...
... heart ; but those elect Angels , contented with their fame in heaven , Seek not the praise of men : the other sort , In might though wondrous and in acts of war , Nor of renown less eager , yet by doom Cancel'd from heaven and sacred ...
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... heart arose ; and now Led on , yet sinless , with desire to know What nearer might concern him ; how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began ; When , and whereof created ; for what cause ; What within Eden , or without ...
... heart arose ; and now Led on , yet sinless , with desire to know What nearer might concern him ; how this world Of heaven and earth conspicuous first began ; When , and whereof created ; for what cause ; What within Eden , or without ...
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... heart of man suffice to comprehend ? Yet what thou canst attain , which best may serve To glorify the Maker , and infer Thee also happier , shall not be withheld Thy hearing ; such commission from above I have received , to answer thy ...
... heart of man suffice to comprehend ? Yet what thou canst attain , which best may serve To glorify the Maker , and infer Thee also happier , shall not be withheld Thy hearing ; such commission from above I have received , to answer thy ...
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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...