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Page 168
... hast given me to possess Life in myself for ever : by thee I live ; Though now to Death I yield , and am his due , All that of me can die : yet , that debt paid , Thou wilt not leave me in the loathsome grave His prey , nor suffer my ...
... hast given me to possess Life in myself for ever : by thee I live ; Though now to Death I yield , and am his due , All that of me can die : yet , that debt paid , Thou wilt not leave me in the loathsome grave His prey , nor suffer my ...
Page 169
... hast ( though throned in highest bliss Equal to God , and equally enjoying Godlike fruition , ) quitted all , to save A world from utter loss ; and hast been found B. III . 169 PARADISE LOST .
... hast ( though throned in highest bliss Equal to God , and equally enjoying Godlike fruition , ) quitted all , to save A world from utter loss ; and hast been found B. III . 169 PARADISE LOST .
Page 170
Including Translations ... A world from utter loss ; and hast been found By merit , more than birthright , Son of God : Found worthiest to be so by being good , Far more than great or high . Because in thee Love hath abounded more than ...
Including Translations ... A world from utter loss ; and hast been found By merit , more than birthright , Son of God : Found worthiest to be so by being good , Far more than great or high . Because in thee Love hath abounded more than ...
Page 185
... hast thou then or what to'accuse , But Heaven's free love , dealt equally to all ? Be then his love accursed , since love or hate , To me alike , it deals eternal woe . Nay , cursed be thou ; since against his thy will VOL . I. R Chose ...
... hast thou then or what to'accuse , But Heaven's free love , dealt equally to all ? Be then his love accursed , since love or hate , To me alike , it deals eternal woe . Nay , cursed be thou ; since against his thy will VOL . I. R Chose ...
Page 196
... whom And from whom I was form'd , flesh of thy flesh , And without whom am to no end , my guide And head ! what thou hast said is just and right . For we to Him indeed all praises owe , And 196 B. IV . PARADISE LOST .
... whom And from whom I was form'd , flesh of thy flesh , And without whom am to no end , my guide And head ! what thou hast said is just and right . For we to Him indeed all praises owe , And 196 B. IV . PARADISE LOST .
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.