Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions. The Author John Milton, from the Text of Thomas Newton, D.D.John Baskerville, 1759 - 388 pages |
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... MORNING of CHRIST's NATIVITY . The PASSION . On TIME . Upon the CIRCUMCISION . 67 99 165 ibid . 168 172 183 185 186 At a SOLEMN MUSIC . 187 An EPITAPH on the MARCHIONESS of WINCHESTER . 188 Song . On MAY MORNING . On SHAKESPEAR . On the ...
... MORNING of CHRIST's NATIVITY . The PASSION . On TIME . Upon the CIRCUMCISION . 67 99 165 ibid . 168 172 183 185 186 At a SOLEMN MUSIC . 187 An EPITAPH on the MARCHIONESS of WINCHESTER . 188 Song . On MAY MORNING . On SHAKESPEAR . On the ...
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... Morning Star then in his rise , And looking round on every fide beheld A pathless desert , dusk with horrid shades ; The way he came not having mark'd , return Was difficult , by human steps untrod ; 295 And 300 And he still on was led ...
... Morning Star then in his rise , And looking round on every fide beheld A pathless desert , dusk with horrid shades ; The way he came not having mark'd , return Was difficult , by human steps untrod ; 295 And 300 And he still on was led ...
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... horny beaks Food to Elijah bringing ev'n and morn , ( brought : Though ravenous , taught t'abstain from what they He saw the prophet also how he fled 270 Into the defert , and how there he slept Under Into 36 PARADISE REGAIN'D . Book II .
... horny beaks Food to Elijah bringing ev'n and morn , ( brought : Though ravenous , taught t'abstain from what they He saw the prophet also how he fled 270 Into the defert , and how there he slept Under Into 36 PARADISE REGAIN'D . Book II .
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... morn's approach , and greet her with his song : As lightly from his graffy couch up rofe Our Saviour , and found all was but a dream , Fafting he went to fleep , and fasting wak'd . Up to a hill anon his steps he rear'd , From whose ...
... morn's approach , and greet her with his song : As lightly from his graffy couch up rofe Our Saviour , and found all was but a dream , Fafting he went to fleep , and fasting wak'd . Up to a hill anon his steps he rear'd , From whose ...
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... morning shows the day . Be famous then 220 By wisdom ; as thy empire must extend , So let extend thy mind o'er all the world In knowledge , all things in it comprehend : All knowledge is not couch'd in Mofes Law , 225 The Pentateuch ...
... morning shows the day . Be famous then 220 By wisdom ; as thy empire must extend , So let extend thy mind o'er all the world In knowledge , all things in it comprehend : All knowledge is not couch'd in Mofes Law , 225 The Pentateuch ...
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Page 196 - 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...
Page 241 - In courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, Where most may wonder at the workmanship. It is for homely features to keep home; They had their name thence: coarse complexions And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply The sampler, and to tease the huswife's wool.
Page 266 - 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.
Page 261 - But we do hope to find out all your tricks, Your plots and packing, worse than those of Trent...
Page 255 - 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.
Page 275 - 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.
Page 197 - 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.
Page 255 - Mincius, crowned with vocal reeds, That strain I heard was of a higher mood : But now my oat proceeds. And listens to the herald of the sea That came in Neptune's plea, He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain?
Page 200 - 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.
Page 69 - Legions and cohorts, turms of horse and wings ; Or embassies from regions far remote, In various habits, on the Appian road, Or on the...