Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several OccasionsJ. Baskerville, 1759 - 390 páginas |
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... Thou Spirit who ledst this glorious eremite Into the defert , his victorious field , 5 Against the spiritual foe , and brought'ft him thence10 By proof th ' undoubted Son of God , inspire , As thou art wont , my prompted fong elfe mute ...
... Thou Spirit who ledst this glorious eremite Into the defert , his victorious field , 5 Against the spiritual foe , and brought'ft him thence10 By proof th ' undoubted Son of God , inspire , As thou art wont , my prompted fong elfe mute ...
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... thy thoughts O Son , but nourish them and let them foar 230 To what highth facred virtue and true worth Can raise them , though above example high ; By matchless deeds express thy matchless Sire . For know , thou art no fon of mortal ...
... thy thoughts O Son , but nourish them and let them foar 230 To what highth facred virtue and true worth Can raise them , though above example high ; By matchless deeds express thy matchless Sire . For know , thou art no fon of mortal ...
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... thou then fuggest to me distrust , 355 Knowing who I am , as I know who thou art ? Whom thus anfwer'd th ' Arch - Fiend now undif- ' Tis true , I am that Spi'rit unfortunate , ( guis'd . Who leagu'd with millions more in rash revolt ...
... thou then fuggest to me distrust , 355 Knowing who I am , as I know who thou art ? Whom thus anfwer'd th ' Arch - Fiend now undif- ' Tis true , I am that Spi'rit unfortunate , ( guis'd . Who leagu'd with millions more in rash revolt ...
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... thy torment , representing Loft bliss , to thee no more communicable , 415 So never more in Hell than when in Heav'n . 420 But thou art serviceable to Heav'n's King . Wilt thou impute t ' obedience what thy fear Extorts , or pleasure to ...
... thy torment , representing Loft bliss , to thee no more communicable , 415 So never more in Hell than when in Heav'n . 420 But thou art serviceable to Heav'n's King . Wilt thou impute t ' obedience what thy fear Extorts , or pleasure to ...
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... thou art plac'd above me , thou art Lord ; 475 From thee I can and must submiss indure Check or reproof , and glad to ' scape so quit . Hard are the ways of truth , and rough to walk , Smooth on the tongue difcours'd , pleasing to th ...
... thou art plac'd above me , thou art Lord ; 475 From thee I can and must submiss indure Check or reproof , and glad to ' scape so quit . Hard are the ways of truth , and rough to walk , Smooth on the tongue difcours'd , pleasing to th ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 200 - As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew, Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Página 166 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Página 173 - The Babe lies yet in smiling infancy, That on the bitter cross Must redeem our loss; So both Himself and us to glorify...
Página 264 - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Página 192 - Sometimes, with secure delight, The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade; And young and old come forth to play On a sunshine holiday, Till the livelong daylight fail...
Página 253 - The air was calm, and on the level brine Sleek Panope with all her sisters played. It was that fatal and perfidious bark, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.
Página 250 - Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas* is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme.
Página 196 - But, first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight, Smoothing the rugged brow of Night, While Cynthia checks her dragon yoke Gently o'er the accustomed oak.
Página 193 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold In weeds of peace high triumphs hold With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Página 250 - Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.