Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several OccasionsJ. Baskerville, 1759 - 390 Seiten |
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... truth , 205 All righteous things : therefore above my years , The law of God I read , and found it fweet , Made it my whole delight , and in it grew To fuch perfection , that ere yet my age Had meafur'd twice fix years , at our great ...
... truth , 205 All righteous things : therefore above my years , The law of God I read , and found it fweet , Made it my whole delight , and in it grew To fuch perfection , that ere yet my age Had meafur'd twice fix years , at our great ...
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... truth were freed , and equity restor❜d : Yet held it more humane , more heav'nly first By winning words to conquer willing hearts , And make persuasion do the work of fear ; At least to try , and teach the erring foul Not wilfully mis ...
... truth were freed , and equity restor❜d : Yet held it more humane , more heav'nly first By winning words to conquer willing hearts , And make persuasion do the work of fear ; At least to try , and teach the erring foul Not wilfully mis ...
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... truth ; all oracles 430 By thee are giv'n , and what confess'd more true Among the nations ? that hath been thy craft , By mixing fomewhat true to vent more lies . But what have been thy answers , what but dark , Ambiguous and with ...
... truth ; all oracles 430 By thee are giv'n , and what confess'd more true Among the nations ? that hath been thy craft , By mixing fomewhat true to vent more lies . But what have been thy answers , what but dark , Ambiguous and with ...
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... truth , But from him or his Angels prefident 445 450 In every province ? who themselves disdaining T'approach thy temples , give thee in command What to the smalleft tittle thou shalt fay To thy adorers ; thou with trembling fear , Or ...
... truth , But from him or his Angels prefident 445 450 In every province ? who themselves disdaining T'approach thy temples , give thee in command What to the smalleft tittle thou shalt fay To thy adorers ; thou with trembling fear , Or ...
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... truth ; If it may ftand him more in ftead to lie , Say and unfay , feign , flatter , or abjure ? But 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 ...
... truth ; If it may ftand him more in ftead to lie , Say and unfay , feign , flatter , or abjure ? But 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 ...
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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 173 - The Babe lies yet in smiling infancy, That on the bitter cross Must redeem our loss; So both Himself and us to glorify...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.