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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... keep it gain'd . Witness those ancient empires of the earth , In highth of all their flowing wealth diffolv'd : But men indued with these have oft attain'd In lowest poverty to highest deeds ; 435 Gideon , 440 Gideon , and Japhtha , and ...
... keep it gain'd . Witness those ancient empires of the earth , In highth of all their flowing wealth diffolv'd : But men indued with these have oft attain'd In lowest poverty to highest deeds ; 435 Gideon , 440 Gideon , and Japhtha , and ...
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... keeps it so , What ruins kingdoms , and lays cities flat ; These only with our law best form a king . 360 So fpake the Son of God ; but Satan now 365 Quite at a lofs , for all his darts were spent , Thus to our Saviour with ftern brow ...
... keeps it so , What ruins kingdoms , and lays cities flat ; These only with our law best form a king . 360 So fpake the Son of God ; but Satan now 365 Quite at a lofs , for all his darts were spent , Thus to our Saviour with ftern brow ...
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... to complain of but myself ? Who this high gift of flrength committed to me , In what part lodg'd , how cafily bereft me , Under the feal of filence could not keep , But But weakly to a woman muft reveal it , O'ercome 100 SAMSON AGONISTES .
... to complain of but myself ? Who this high gift of flrength committed to me , In what part lodg'd , how cafily bereft me , Under the feal of filence could not keep , But But weakly to a woman muft reveal it , O'ercome 100 SAMSON AGONISTES .
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... keeping With no fmall profit daily to my owners . 1261 But come what will , my deadlieft foe will prove My speedieft friend , by death to rid me hence , The worst that he can give , to me the best . Yet fo it may fall out , because ...
... keeping With no fmall profit daily to my owners . 1261 But come what will , my deadlieft foe will prove My speedieft friend , by death to rid me hence , The worst that he can give , to me the best . Yet fo it may fall out , because ...
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... keep together here , left running thither We unawares run into danger's mouth . This evil on the Philiftines is fall'n ; From whom could elfe a general cry be heard ? The sufferers then will scarce moleft us here , 1525 From other hands ...
... keep together here , left running thither We unawares run into danger's mouth . This evil on the Philiftines is fall'n ; From whom could elfe a general cry be heard ? The sufferers then will scarce moleft us here , 1525 From other hands ...
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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.