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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... 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 measur'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 measur'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 maké persuasion do the work of fear ; At least to try , and teach the erring foul Not wilfully mif ...
... truth were freed , and equity restor'd : Yet held it more humane , more heav'nly first By winning words to conquer willing hearts , And maké persuasion do the work of fear ; At least to try , and teach the erring foul Not wilfully mif ...
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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 anfwers , 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 anfwers , 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 smallest tittle thou shalt say 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 smallest tittle thou shalt say 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 ? 470 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 ...
... truth ; If it may ftand him more in ftead to lie , Say and unfay , feign , flatter , or abjure ? 470 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 ...
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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...