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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... heard the Adversary , who roving still About the world , at that affembly fam'd Would not be last , and with the voice divine Nigh thunder - ftruck , th ' exalted man , to whom Such high atteft was giv'n , a while furvey'd With wonder ...
... heard the Adversary , who roving still About the world , at that affembly fam'd Would not be last , and with the voice divine Nigh thunder - ftruck , th ' exalted man , to whom Such high atteft was giv'n , a while furvey'd With wonder ...
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... heard , This is my Son belov'd , in him am pleas'd . His mother then is mortal , but his fire He who obtains the monarchy of Heaven , And what will he not do to ' advance his Son ? His first - begot we know , and fore have felt , When ...
... heard , This is my Son belov'd , in him am pleas'd . His mother then is mortal , but his fire He who obtains the monarchy of Heaven , And what will he not do to ' advance his Son ? His first - begot we know , and fore have felt , When ...
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... heard , ftrait I again revolv'd The law and prophets , searching what was writ 260 Concerning the Meffiah , to our scribes Known partly , and foon found of whom they spake I am ; this chiefly , that my way must lie Through many a hard ...
... heard , ftrait I again revolv'd The law and prophets , searching what was writ 260 Concerning the Meffiah , to our scribes Known partly , and foon found of whom they spake I am ; this chiefly , that my way must lie Through many a hard ...
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... heard from Heav'n , pronounc'd me his , Me his beloved Son , in whom alone 285 290 He was well pleas'd ; by which I knew the time Now full , that I no more should live obscure , But openly begin , as best becomes Th ' authority which I ...
... heard from Heav'n , pronounc'd me his , Me his beloved Son , in whom alone 285 290 He was well pleas'd ; by which I knew the time Now full , that I no more should live obscure , But openly begin , as best becomes Th ' authority which I ...
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... heard , for we fometimes 330 Whodwell this wild , constrain'd by want , come forth To town or village nigh ( nighest is far ) Where ought we hear , and curious are to hear , What happens new ; fame also finds us out . To whom the Son of ...
... heard , for we fometimes 330 Whodwell this wild , constrain'd by want , come forth To town or village nigh ( nighest is far ) Where ought we hear , and curious are to hear , What happens new ; fame also finds us out . To whom the Son of ...
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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.