The Works of the English Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Bände 3-5Samuel Johnson C. Bathurst, 1779 |
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... king , And put to proof his high fupremacy , • Whether upheld by strength , or chance , or fate ; Too well I fee and rue the dire event , That with fad overthrow and foul defeat Hath loft us Heav'n , and all this mighty hoft In horrible ...
... king , And put to proof his high fupremacy , • Whether upheld by strength , or chance , or fate ; Too well I fee and rue the dire event , That with fad overthrow and foul defeat Hath loft us Heav'n , and all this mighty hoft In horrible ...
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... king , And put to proof his high fupremacy , Whether upheld by strength , or chance , or fate ; Too well I fee and rue the dire event , That with fad overthrow and foul defeat Hath loft us Heav'n , and all this mighty hoft In horrible ...
... king , And put to proof his high fupremacy , Whether upheld by strength , or chance , or fate ; Too well I fee and rue the dire event , That with fad overthrow and foul defeat Hath loft us Heav'n , and all this mighty hoft In horrible ...
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... king , besmear'd with blood Of human facrifice , and parents tears , Though for the noife of drums and timbrels loud Their childrens cries unheard , that pafs'd through fire To his grim idol . Him the Ammonite Worshipt in Rabba and her ...
... king , besmear'd with blood Of human facrifice , and parents tears , Though for the noife of drums and timbrels loud Their childrens cries unheard , that pafs'd through fire To his grim idol . Him the Ammonite Worshipt in Rabba and her ...
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... king , whofe heart though large , Beguil'd by fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whofe annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damfels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a fummer's day , While ...
... king , whofe heart though large , Beguil'd by fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whofe annual wound in Lebanon allur'd The Syrian damfels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a fummer's day , While ...
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... king Doubled that fin in Bethel and in Dan , Likening his Maker to the grazed ox , Jehovah , who in one night when he pass'd From Egypt marching , equal'd with one stroke Both her firft - born and all her bleating Gods . Belial came ...
... king Doubled that fin in Bethel and in Dan , Likening his Maker to the grazed ox , Jehovah , who in one night when he pass'd From Egypt marching , equal'd with one stroke Both her firft - born and all her bleating Gods . Belial came ...
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Adam againſt alfo Angels battel beft behold beſt call'd cauſe darkneſs death deep defire divine earth eaſe elfe erft eternal evil eyes facred fafe faid fair fame feat feek feem'd feems fhall fide fight fince fing firft firſt flain fome fong foon foul fpake fruit ftill fuch glory hath Heav'n heav'nly Hell highth himſelf hoft itſelf juft juſt king laft laſt leaſt lefs leſs light loft Lord mihi moſt muſt night numbers o'er Paradife PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAIN'D pleaſure pow'r praiſe quæ reafon reft reply'd reſt return'd rife Satan ſeems ſhade ſhall ſhame ſhape ſhe ſhould Spi'rits ſpread ſtand ſtars ſtate ſteps ſtill ſtood ſtrength ſweet taſte thee thefe themſelves thence theſe thine things thofe thoſe thou art thought thouſand throne tibi whofe whoſe wings worfe worſe
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Seite 59 - 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 36 - 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 96 - ... 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 137 - 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 114 - 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 88 - 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 70 - 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 115 - 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 246 - 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 70 - 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...