The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2S. Andrus, 1852 |
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... keep it , gain'd . Witness those ancient empires of the earth , In height of all their flowing wealth dissolved : But men endued with these have oft attain'd , In lowest poverty , to highest deeds ; Gideon , and Jephtha , and the ...
... keep it , gain'd . Witness those ancient empires of the earth , In height of all their flowing wealth dissolved : But men endued with these have oft attain'd , In lowest poverty , to highest deeds ; Gideon , and Jephtha , and the ...
Page 79
... keeps it so , What ruins kingdoms , and lays cities flat ; These only with our law best form a king . ” . So spake the Son of God ; but Satan , now Quite at a loss ( for all his darts were spent , ) Thus to our Saviour , with stern brow ...
... keeps it so , What ruins kingdoms , and lays cities flat ; These only with our law best form a king . ” . So spake the Son of God ; but Satan , now Quite at a loss ( for all his darts were spent , ) Thus to our Saviour , with stern brow ...
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... seal of silence could not keep , But weakly to a woman must reveal it , O'ercome with importunity and tears . O impotence of mind , in body strong ! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom 92 SAMSON AGONISTES .
... seal of silence could not keep , But weakly to a woman must reveal it , O'ercome with importunity and tears . O impotence of mind , in body strong ! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom 92 SAMSON AGONISTES .
Page 134
... keeping With no small profit daily to my owners . But come what will , my deadliest foe will prove My speediest friend , by death to rid me hence ; The worst that he can give , to me the best . Yet so it may fall out , because their end ...
... keeping With no small profit daily to my owners . But come what will , my deadliest foe will prove My speediest friend , by death to rid me hence ; The worst that he can give , to me the best . Yet so it may fall out , because their end ...
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... keep together here , lest , running thither , We , unawares , run into danger's mouth . This evil on the Philistines is fallen : From whom could else a general cry be heard ? The sufferers , then , will scarce molest us here ; From ...
... keep together here , lest , running thither , We , unawares , run into danger's mouth . This evil on the Philistines is fallen : From whom could else a general cry be heard ? The sufferers , then , will scarce molest us here ; From ...
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aëre agni Amor angels ANTISTROPHE Atque aught behold canst choro cœli cœlo Comus Dagon dark death deeds Deûm didst divine domino jam domum impasti dost doth dread earth enemies etiam eyes fair fame father fear feast foes fræna glorious glory gods habet Hæc hand hath hear heard heaven hinc holy honour igne illa ille ipse Israel jam non vacat Jesus kings Lady Lord lumina Lycidas malè Manoah mihi mortal night numbers numina Nunc nymphs o'er Olympo PARADISE REGAINED peace Philistines praise PSALM Quà quæ quid quoque reign round sæpe Sams Samson Satan Saviour shades shalt shame shepherd sing Son of God song soul spirits strength sweet tempter thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tibi truth Tu quoque ulmo urbe virgin virtue voice wilt
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Page 207 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold ! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers...
Page 206 - Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next, Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge, Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. "Ah! who hath reft," quoth he, "my dearest pledge?
Page 220 - Or let my lamp, at midnight hour, Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear, With thrice great Hermes, or unsphere The spirit of Plato to unfold What worlds, or what vast regions hold The immortal mind, that hath forsook Her mansion in this fleshly nook...
Page 216 - But hail! thou Goddess sage and holy! Hail, divinest Melancholy! Whose saintly visage is too bright To hit the sense of human sight, And therefore to our weaker view O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue; Black, but such as in esteem Prince Memnon's...
Page 168 - And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 238 - She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow, And on her naked shame, Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Page 213 - While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before. Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, .Through the high wood echoing shrill.
Page 222 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars...
Page 216 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 159 - Their merry wakes and pastimes keep : What hath night to do with sleep? Night hath better sweets to prove; Venus now wakes, and wakens Love. Come, let us our rites begin; Tis only daylight that makes sin, Which these dun shades will ne'er report. Hail, goddess of nocturnal sport, Dark-veil'd Cotytto, to whom the secret flame Of midnight torches burns!