The Works of the English Poets: MiltonH. Hughs, 1779 |
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... some famous modern poets , carried away by cuftom , but much to their own vexation , hindrance , and constraint to exprefs many things otherwife , and for the most part worse than else they would have expreffed them . Not without caufe ...
... some famous modern poets , carried away by cuftom , but much to their own vexation , hindrance , and constraint to exprefs many things otherwife , and for the most part worse than else they would have expreffed them . Not without caufe ...
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Samuel Johnson. Him haply flumb'ring on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night - founder'd skiff Deeming fome iland , oft , as fea - men tell , With fixed anchor in his skaly rind Moors by his fide under the lee , while night ...
Samuel Johnson. Him haply flumb'ring on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night - founder'd skiff Deeming fome iland , oft , as fea - men tell , With fixed anchor in his skaly rind Moors by his fide under the lee , while night ...
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... Some advise it , others diffuade : A third propofal is preferr'd , mention'd before by Satan , to fearch the truth of that prophecy or tradition in Heaven concerning another world , and another kind of creature equal or not much ...
... Some advise it , others diffuade : A third propofal is preferr'd , mention'd before by Satan , to fearch the truth of that prophecy or tradition in Heaven concerning another world , and another kind of creature equal or not much ...
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... some dire revenge . 115 First , what revenge ? the tow'rs of Heav'n are fill'd With armed watch , that render all access Impregnable ; oft on the bord'ring deep Incamp their legions , or with óbfcure wing Scout far and wide into the ...
... some dire revenge . 115 First , what revenge ? the tow'rs of Heav'n are fill'd With armed watch , that render all access Impregnable ; oft on the bord'ring deep Incamp their legions , or with óbfcure wing Scout far and wide into the ...
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... Some easier enterprife ? There is a place , ( If ancient and prophetic fame in Heaven Err not ) another world , the happy feat 345 Of fome new race call'd Man , about this time To be created like to us , though lefs In pow'r and ...
... Some easier enterprife ? There is a place , ( If ancient and prophetic fame in Heaven Err not ) another world , the happy feat 345 Of fome new race call'd Man , about this time To be created like to us , though lefs In pow'r and ...
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Página 13 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Página 240 - Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent: Tell me how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know...
Página 159 - Hear, all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers ; Hear my decree, which unrevoked shall stand. This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son, and on this holy hill Him have anointed, whom ye now behold At my right hand; your head I him appoint; And by myself have sworn, to him shall bow All knees in heaven, and shall confess him Lord...
Página 79 - By sin to foul exorbitant desires: Upheld by me, yet once more he shall stand On even ground against his mortal foe, By me upheld, that he may know how frail...
Página 74 - 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.
Página 226 - Magnificent, his six days' work, a world : Open, and henceforth oft; for God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men, Delighted; and with frequent intercourse Thither will send his winged messengers On errands of supernal grace.
Página 145 - Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Página 143 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 37 - Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low...
Página 102 - 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, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!