Paradise Regain'd: A Poem, in Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes: and Poems Upon Several Occasions, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson, 1753 - 721 pages |
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Page 39
... say , that each man's peculiar load fhould not be put in the mouth of Satan , who was no man , who had confessed to Chrift that he was the unfortunate Arch - Fiend , and who fpeaks of himself . If Milton had been a- ware of it , he ...
... say , that each man's peculiar load fhould not be put in the mouth of Satan , who was no man , who had confessed to Chrift that he was the unfortunate Arch - Fiend , and who fpeaks of himself . If Milton had been a- ware of it , he ...
Page 43
... says tamen nec ifta ip- fa , quĉ ab eis vix raro & clanculo proferuntur , movere nos debent , fi cuiquam Dĉmonum extortum eft id prodere cultoribus fuis , quod di- dicerat ex eloquiis prophetarum , vel oraculis Angelorum . Aug. De Div ...
... says tamen nec ifta ip- fa , quĉ ab eis vix raro & clanculo proferuntur , movere nos debent , fi cuiquam Dĉmonum extortum eft id prodere cultoribus fuis , quod di- dicerat ex eloquiis prophetarum , vel oraculis Angelorum . Aug. De Div ...
Page 46
... Say and unfay , feign , flatter , or abjure ? But thou art plac'd above me , thou art Lord ; From thee I can and muft fubmifs indure Check or reproof , and glad to ' scape so quit . Hard are the ways of truth , and rough to walk , have ...
... Say and unfay , feign , flatter , or abjure ? But thou art plac'd above me , thou art Lord ; From thee I can and muft fubmifs indure Check or reproof , and glad to ' scape so quit . Hard are the ways of truth , and rough to walk , have ...
Page 94
... say- ing that it was his ambition not 450 Accomplish to be rich , but to command those who were fo . And Regulus , after performing many great exploits , was taken prifoner by the Cartha- ginians , and fent with the embaf- fadors to ...
... say- ing that it was his ambition not 450 Accomplish to be rich , but to command those who were fo . And Regulus , after performing many great exploits , was taken prifoner by the Cartha- ginians , and fent with the embaf- fadors to ...
Page 101
... say , What to reply , confuted and convinc'd Of his weak arguing , and fallacious drift ; At length collecting all his serpent wiles , With foothing words renew'd , him thus accosts . I fee thou know'ft what is of use to know , What ...
... say , What to reply , confuted and convinc'd Of his weak arguing , and fallacious drift ; At length collecting all his serpent wiles , With foothing words renew'd , him thus accosts . I fee thou know'ft what is of use to know , What ...
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Page 322 - 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 22 - When I was yet a child, no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know, and thence to do What might be public good; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things...
Page 166 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades ; See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
Page 317 - With horrible convulsion to and fro He tugg'd, he shook, till down they came and drew The whole roof after them, with burst of thunder Upon the heads of all who sat beneath, Lords, ladies, captains...
Page 229 - But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to despise, or envy, or suspect Whom GOD hath of His special favour raised As their deliverer?
Page 46 - God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will, And sends his spirit of truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts, an inward oracle To all truth requisite for men to know.
Page 245 - Fearless of danger, like a petty God I walk'd about admir'd of all and dreaded On hostile ground, none daring my affront.
Page 108 - Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Page 200 - Time serves not now, and perhaps I might seem too profuse to give any certain account of what the mind at home, in the spacious circuits of her musing, hath liberty to propose to herself, though of highest hope and hardest attempting; whether that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the book of Job a brief model...
Page 217 - And almost life itself, if it be true That. light is in the soul, She all in every part; why was the sight To such a tender ball as th' eye confin'd, So obvious and so easy to be quench'd?