The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2S. Andrus, 1852 |
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... be the consequence of their idolatry ; but adds that , at a future time , it may , perhaps , please God to recall them , and restore them to their liberty and native land . PARADISE REGAINED . BOOK III . So spake the Son THE ARGUMENT .
... be the consequence of their idolatry ; but adds that , at a future time , it may , perhaps , please God to recall them , and restore them to their liberty and native land . PARADISE REGAINED . BOOK III . So spake the Son THE ARGUMENT .
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... land and times obscure ; Who names not now with honour patient Job ? Poor Socrates ( who next more memorable ? ) By what he taught , and suffer'd for so doing , For truth's sake suffering death unjust , lives now Equal in fame to ...
... land and times obscure ; Who names not now with honour patient Job ? Poor Socrates ( who next more memorable ? ) By what he taught , and suffer'd for so doing , For truth's sake suffering death unjust , lives now Equal in fame to ...
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... Land , Reduced a province under Roman yoke , Obeys Tiberius ; nor is always ruled With temperate sway : oft have they violated The temple , oft the law with foul affronts , Abominations rather , as did once Antiochus ; and think'st thou ...
... Land , Reduced a province under Roman yoke , Obeys Tiberius ; nor is always ruled With temperate sway : oft have they violated The temple , oft the law with foul affronts , Abominations rather , as did once Antiochus ; and think'st thou ...
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... land of Egypt served , This offer sets before thee to deliver . These if from servitude thou shalt restore To their inheritance , then , nor till then , Thou on the throne of David in full glory , From Egypt to Euphrates , and beyond ...
... land of Egypt served , This offer sets before thee to deliver . These if from servitude thou shalt restore To their inheritance , then , nor till then , Thou on the throne of David in full glory , From Egypt to Euphrates , and beyond ...
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... land with joy they haste ; As the Red Sea and Jordan once he cleft , When to the Promised Land their fathers pass'd . To his due time and providence I leave them . " So spake Israel's true King , and to the fiend Made answer meet , that ...
... land with joy they haste ; As the Red Sea and Jordan once he cleft , When to the Promised Land their fathers pass'd . To his due time and providence I leave them . " So spake Israel's true King , and to the fiend Made answer meet , that ...
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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!