The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author by S. Johnson, Volumes 3-41807 |
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... sound of trumpet , cry'd Repentance , and Heav'n's kingdom nigh at hand To all baptiz'd : to his great baptism flock'd 21 With awe the regions round , and with them came 50 From Nazareth the son of Joseph deem'd To the A 2.
... sound of trumpet , cry'd Repentance , and Heav'n's kingdom nigh at hand To all baptiz'd : to his great baptism flock'd 21 With awe the regions round , and with them came 50 From Nazareth the son of Joseph deem'd To the A 2.
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... round , His holy meditations thus pursu❜d : O what a multitude of thoughts at once Awaken'd in me swarm , while I consider What from within I feel myself , and hear What from without comes often to my ears , Ill sorting with my present ...
... round , His holy meditations thus pursu❜d : O what a multitude of thoughts at once Awaken'd in me swarm , while I consider What from within I feel myself , and hear What from without comes often to my ears , Ill sorting with my present ...
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... round on every side , beheld A pathless desert , dusk with horrid shades ; The way he came not having mark'd , return Was difficult , by human steps untrod ; And he still on was led , but with such thoughts Accompanied of things past ...
... round on every side , beheld A pathless desert , dusk with horrid shades ; The way he came not having mark'd , return Was difficult , by human steps untrod ; And he still on was led , but with such thoughts Accompanied of things past ...
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... round this globe of earth Or range in th ' air , nor from the Heav'n of Heav'n's Hath he excluded my resort sometimes . I came among the sons of God , when he Gave up into my hands Uzzean Job To prove him , and illustrate his high worth ...
... round this globe of earth Or range in th ' air , nor from the Heav'n of Heav'n's Hath he excluded my resort sometimes . I came among the sons of God , when he Gave up into my hands Uzzean Job To prove him , and illustrate his high worth ...
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... round , If cottage were in view , sheep - cote or herd ; But cottage , herd , or sheep - cote none he saw , Only ' in a bottom saw a pleasant grovė , With chaunt of tuneful birds resounding loud ; 290 Thither he bent his way , determin ...
... round , If cottage were in view , sheep - cote or herd ; But cottage , herd , or sheep - cote none he saw , Only ' in a bottom saw a pleasant grovė , With chaunt of tuneful birds resounding loud ; 290 Thither he bent his way , determin ...
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Amor angels Arethuse arms Atque behold bright cataphracts Chebar CHOR clouds Comus Dagon dark death didst divine dost doth dread earth enemies eyes fair fame father fear feast foes glorious glory gods Hęc hand hath head hear heard Heav'n heav'nly holy honour ipse Israel Jehovah Jove kings Lady light live Locrine Lord loud Lycidas Manoah mihi MILTON morning mortal Muse never night numbers numina nymph o'er once P. L. iv P. L. vii P. L. x P. L. xi PARADISE REGAIN'D peace Philistines praise Psalm quę quid reply'd round Samson Samson Agonistes shades shalt shame Shepherd sing solemn Son of God song sorrow soul spirits strength sweet thee thence thine things thou thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tibi virgin virtue wild wilt winds wings words
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Page 192 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 186 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 190 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 146 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 197 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 188 - Where the great sun begins his state, Rob'd in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 35 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish...
Page 30 - FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace ; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross ; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain.