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" Lycidas : But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. *' Thefe are the laft words of Peter, predicting <£ God's vengeance on his Church by his miniltry. " The making him the minifter, is in imitation of ** the... "
The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary, Being a Supplement to Mr. Warburton's ... - Page 238
by Thomas Edwards - 1758 - 344 pages
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Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 1

John Milton - English poetry - 1750 - 674 pages
...Michael fight with a tixo-bendtd fword. The fame idea occafion'd his exprefling himfelf very obfcurely in the following lines of his Lycidas, But that two-handed...engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and finite no more. Thefe are th.e laft words of Peter predicting God's vengeance on his church by his...
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A Letter Concerning a New Edition of Spenser's Faerie Queene. To Gilbert ...

John Upton - 1751 - 54 pages
...grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace and nothing fed, . . • *, '. But that two-handed engine at the door . . Stands ready to. fmite once, and fmite no more. V. )2S". Nothing fed, as 'ris in my edition, and whilft I write, I have no other to confult, mould...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. From the ...

John Milton - Epic poetry, English - 1759 - 608 pages
...verfes in Lycidas. Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faid ; But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. About this time, as we learn from one of his familiar epiftles, he had fome thoughts of taking chambers...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth ...

John Milton - 1763 - 670 pages
...verfes in Lycidas. Befides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing faidj But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. About this time, as we learn from one of his familiar epiftles, he had fomc thoughts of taking chambers...
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Milton's Poems 1645

John Milton - English poetry - 1924 - 240 pages
...what the grim Woolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing fed, But that two-handed engine at the door, Stands ready to fmite once, and fmite no more. Return Alfheus^ the dread voice is paft, That fhrunk thy ftreams ; Return Sicilian Mufe, And call the...
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Milton, 1732-1801: The Critical Heritage

John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1972 - 460 pages
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John Milton: 1732-1801

John T. Shawcross - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 500 pages
...Michael fight with a two-handed sword. The same idea occasion'd his expressing himself very obscurely in the following lines of his 'Lycidas', But that two-handed engin at the door Stands ready to smite once, and smite no more. These are the last words of Peter predicting God's vengeance on his...
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The Canons Of Criticism, And Glossary; The Trial Of The Letter Y, And Sonnets

Thomas Edwards - 2006 - 372 pages
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The Canons of Criticism, and Glossary, Being A Supplement to Mr: Warburton's ...

Thomas Edwards - 1999 - 370 pages
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