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Page 83
... but sav'd who will ; Yet not of will in him , but grace Freely vouchsaf'd ; once
more I will renew His lapsed powers , though forfeit , and enthrall'd By sin to foul
exorbitant desires ; Upheld by me , yet once more he shall stand On even ground
...
... but sav'd who will ; Yet not of will in him , but grace Freely vouchsaf'd ; once
more I will renew His lapsed powers , though forfeit , and enthrall'd By sin to foul
exorbitant desires ; Upheld by me , yet once more he shall stand On even ground
...
Page 99
... whereby he soon Saw within ken a glorious Angel stand , The same whom
John saw also in the sun : His back was turn'd , but not his brightness hid ; Of
beaming sunny rays a golden tiar Circled his head , nor less his locks behind
Illustrious ...
... whereby he soon Saw within ken a glorious Angel stand , The same whom
John saw also in the sun : His back was turn'd , but not his brightness hid ; Of
beaming sunny rays a golden tiar Circled his head , nor less his locks behind
Illustrious ...
Page 109
Yet why not ? some other Power As great might have aspir'd , and me , though
mean , Drawn to his part ; but other Powers as great Fell not , but stand unshaken
, from within Or from without , to all temptations arm'd . Hadst thou the same free ...
Yet why not ? some other Power As great might have aspir'd , and me , though
mean , Drawn to his part ; but other Powers as great Fell not , but stand unshaken
, from within Or from without , to all temptations arm'd . Hadst thou the same free ...
Page 166
To whom the Angel Son of Heaven and Earth , Attend : That thou art happy , owe
to God ; That thou eontinuest such , owe to thyself , That is , to thy obedience ;
therein stand . This was that caution given thee ; be advis'd . God made thee ...
To whom the Angel Son of Heaven and Earth , Attend : That thou art happy , owe
to God ; That thou eontinuest such , owe to thyself , That is , to thy obedience ;
therein stand . This was that caution given thee ; be advis'd . God made thee ...
Page 203
Vanguard , to right and left the front unfold ; That all may see who hate us , how
we seek Peace and composure , and with open breast Stand ready to receive
them , if they like Our overture , and turn not back perverse : But that I doubt ...
Vanguard , to right and left the front unfold ; That all may see who hate us , how
we seek Peace and composure , and with open breast Stand ready to receive
them , if they like Our overture , and turn not back perverse : But that I doubt ...
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Page 30 - From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the /Egean isle : thus they relate, Erring...
Page 77 - Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 4 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 13 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 129 - Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 108 - O thou that with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down 40 Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king: Ah wherefore!
Page 79 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 420 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Page 5 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, 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 unconsumed...
Page 179 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
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| Title | Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper Volume 2 of Cowper's Milton, in Four Volumes, William Cowper |
| Author | William Hayley |
| Publisher | W. Mason, 1810 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 26 Aug 2006 |
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