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... where peace And rest can never dwell , hope never comes That comes to all ;
but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning
sulphur unconsumid : Such place eternal Justice had prepar'd For those
rebellious ...
... where peace And rest can never dwell , hope never comes That comes to all ;
but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning
sulphur unconsumid : Such place eternal Justice had prepar'd For those
rebellious ...
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Why comes not death , Said he , with one thrice acceptable stroke To end me ?
shall truth fail to keep her word , Justice divine not hasten to be just ? But death
comes not at call , justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries .
Why comes not death , Said he , with one thrice acceptable stroke To end me ?
shall truth fail to keep her word , Justice divine not hasten to be just ? But death
comes not at call , justice divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers or cries .
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Samson made captive , blind , and now in the prison at Gaza , there to labor as in
a common workhouse , on a feltival day , in the general cessation from labor ,
comes forth into the open air , to a place nigh , somewhat retir'd , there to fit a
while ...
Samson made captive , blind , and now in the prison at Gaza , there to labor as in
a common workhouse , on a feltival day , in the general cessation from labor ,
comes forth into the open air , to a place nigh , somewhat retir'd , there to fit a
while ...
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... Painful diseases and deform'd , In crude old - age ; 700 Though not disordinate
, yet causeless suffering The punishment of diffolute days : in fine , Just or unjust
alike seem miserable , For oft alike both come to evil end . So deal not with this ...
... Painful diseases and deform'd , In crude old - age ; 700 Though not disordinate
, yet causeless suffering The punishment of diffolute days : in fine , Just or unjust
alike seem miserable , For oft alike both come to evil end . So deal not with this ...
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Or peace or not , alike to me he comes . Cho . His fraught we soon shall know ,
he now arrives . HAR . I come not , Samson , to condole thy ' chance , As these
perhaps , yet with it had not been , Though for no friendly intent . I am of Gath ,
Men ...
Or peace or not , alike to me he comes . Cho . His fraught we soon shall know ,
he now arrives . HAR . I come not , Samson , to condole thy ' chance , As these
perhaps , yet with it had not been , Though for no friendly intent . I am of Gath ,
Men ...
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Adam againſt Angels arms behold beſt bright bring brought callid cauſe cloud comes dark death deep delight divine dread dwell earth evil eyes fair faith fall Father fear fight fire firſt force fruit give glory Gods grace hand haſt hath head hear heard heart Heav'n Hell hill himſelf honor hope juſt king laſt leave leſs light live look Lord mean mind morn mortal moſt muſt nature never night once pain peace perhaps pow'r praiſe reſt round Sams Satan ſee ſeek ſeems ſet ſhall ſhe ſhould ſome ſon ſoon Spirit ſtate ſtill ſtood ſtrength ſuch ſweet taſte thee thence theſe things thoſe thou thought throne till tree virtue voice whoſe wide winds wings
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Seite 67 - 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 44 - Whispering new joys to the mild ocean, Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave. The stars, with deep amaze, Stand fix'd in steadfast gaze, Bending one way their precious influence : And will not take their flight, For all the morning light, Or Lucifer that often warn'd them thence ; But in their glimmering orbs did glow, Until their Lord himself bespake, and bid them go.
Seite 104 - ... observe His providence; and on Him sole depend, Merciful over all His works, with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things, by things...
Seite 145 - Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Seite 122 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock by fountain, shade, and rill. Together both, ere the high lawns appeared Under the opening eyelids of the morn, We drove a-field, and both together heard What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn...
Seite 96 - Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Seite 68 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Seite 123 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life. But not the praise...
Seite 244 - Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew ; and like a wood-nymph light, Oread or Dryad, or of Delia's train, Betook her to the groves, but Delia's self In gait...
Seite 68 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
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| Titel | The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Bände 3-5 The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Samuel Johnson |
| Herausgeber | Samuel Johnson |
| Verlag | C. Bathurst, 1779 |
| Original von | University of Michigan |
| Digitalisiert | 21. Dez. 2005 |
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