Paradise regain'd, a poem. To which is added Samson agonistes; and Poems upon several occasions, with a Tractate of education1747 |
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... most do tafte through fond intemperate thirst ) Soon as the Portion works , their human count'nance , Th ' exprefs refemblance of the Gods , is chang'd Into fome brutish form of Wolf , or Bear , Or Ounce , or Tiger , Hog , or bearded ...
... most do tafte through fond intemperate thirst ) Soon as the Portion works , their human count'nance , Th ' exprefs refemblance of the Gods , is chang'd Into fome brutish form of Wolf , or Bear , Or Ounce , or Tiger , Hog , or bearded ...
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... most true , That mufing meditation most affects The penfive fecrecy of defart Cell , Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds , And fits as fafe as in a Senate House : For who would rob a Hermit of his Weeds , His few Books , or his ...
... most true , That mufing meditation most affects The penfive fecrecy of defart Cell , Far from the cheerful haunt of men and herds , And fits as fafe as in a Senate House : For who would rob a Hermit of his Weeds , His few Books , or his ...
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... most bowers . Yet have they many baits , and guileful spells To inveigle and invite th ' unwary fenfe Of them , that pafs unweeting by the way . This evening late , by then the chewing flocks Had Had ta'en their fupper on the favoury ...
... most bowers . Yet have they many baits , and guileful spells To inveigle and invite th ' unwary fenfe Of them , that pafs unweeting by the way . This evening late , by then the chewing flocks Had Had ta'en their fupper on the favoury ...
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... most harm , Shall in the happy trial prove most glory . But evil on itself shall back recoil , And mix no more with goodness , when at last Gather'd like scum , and settl'd to itself , It fhall be in eternal restless change Self - fed ...
... most harm , Shall in the happy trial prove most glory . But evil on itself shall back recoil , And mix no more with goodness , when at last Gather'd like scum , and settl'd to itself , It fhall be in eternal restless change Self - fed ...
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... most may wonder at the workmanship : It is for homely features to keep home , They had their name thence ; coarse complexions , And cheeks of forry grain will ferve to ply The fampler , and to teize the housewife's wooll . What need a ...
... most may wonder at the workmanship : It is for homely features to keep home , They had their name thence ; coarse complexions , And cheeks of forry grain will ferve to ply The fampler , and to teize the housewife's wooll . What need a ...
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 367 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Seite 212 - And though the shady gloom Had given day her room, The sun himself withheld his wonted speed, And hid his head for shame...
Seite 234 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Seite 209 - 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...
Seite 210 - Muse, shall not thy sacred vein Afford a present to the Infant God? Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain, To welcome him to this his new abode, Now while the Heav'n by the sun's team untrod, Hath took no print of the approaching light...
Seite 211 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began; The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed Whispering new joys to the mild ocean — Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
Seite 189 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it, by degrees, to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Seite 235 - Here lies old Hobson. Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else, the ways being foul, twenty to one He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. 'Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down; For he had any time this ten years full Dodged with him betwixt Cambridge and The Bull.
Seite 211 - 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.
Seite 240 - Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May ; Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love ; O if Jove's will Have linked that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate...