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... bring this poem from the state of unmerited neglect into which it has fallen , and cause it to be more generally read and studied , for the cultivation of a literary taste and for the expansion of the intellectual and moral powers ...
... bring this poem from the state of unmerited neglect into which it has fallen , and cause it to be more generally read and studied , for the cultivation of a literary taste and for the expansion of the intellectual and moral powers ...
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... bring no learning , yet feel themselves charmed by sounds and epithets which give a vague pleasure , and stir up the imagination into an indistinct emotion . Poetical imagination is the power , not only of conceiving , but of creating ...
... bring no learning , yet feel themselves charmed by sounds and epithets which give a vague pleasure , and stir up the imagination into an indistinct emotion . Poetical imagination is the power , not only of conceiving , but of creating ...
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... bringing to the contemplation of that subject , not only a genius equal to the best of the ancients , but a heart also deeply impregnated with the divine truths which lay before him , it is no wonder that he has produced a compo- sition ...
... bringing to the contemplation of that subject , not only a genius equal to the best of the ancients , but a heart also deeply impregnated with the divine truths which lay before him , it is no wonder that he has produced a compo- sition ...
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... bring forth good , Our labor must be to pervert that end , And out of good still to find means of evil ; Which oft - times may succeed , so as perhaps Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb His inmost counsels from their ...
... bring forth good , Our labor must be to pervert that end , And out of good still to find means of evil ; Which oft - times may succeed , so as perhaps Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb His inmost counsels from their ...
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... bring forth Infinite goodness , grace , and mercy shewn On Man , by him seduced ; but on himself Treble confusion , wrath , and vengeance pour'd . Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on each hand the flames ...
... bring forth Infinite goodness , grace , and mercy shewn On Man , by him seduced ; but on himself Treble confusion , wrath , and vengeance pour'd . Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature ; on each hand the flames ...
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Page 343 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Page 8 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 102 - The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 118 - 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 everduring 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 184 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 211 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 100 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 212 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 398 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 183 - Unargued I obey; so God ordains, God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.