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" Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven show more? "
The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost, with notes, by J.R. Major - Page 68
by John Milton - 1835
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Paradiso perduto di Milton

John Milton - 1852 - 858 pages
...Heaven resembles Hell As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please? This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre , gems and gold ; Nor...of time Become our elements; these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper chang'd Into their temper; which must needs remove The sensible of...
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The Works of the British Poets, Selected and Chronologically Arranged ...

English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...resembles Hell ? As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please ? This desert soil n was heard with cadence deep, Till drown'd As soft as now severe, our temper chang'd Into their temper ; which must needs remove The sensible...
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Studies from the English Poets

George Frederick Graham - English literature - 1852 - 570 pages
...his light Imitate when we please ? This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; 250 Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence...of time Become our elements ; these piercing fires As soft as now severe, our temper changed 255 Into their temper, which must needs remove The sensible2...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1852 - 472 pages
...resembles hell! As he our darkness, cannot we Iris light Imitate when we please ? This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold; Nor want...raise Magnificence; and what can heaven show more 1 Our torments also may, in length of time, Become our elements, these piercing fires, As soft as now...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1852 - 330 pages
...resembles hell ? As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please ? this desart soil 470 Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise *ยป Live] See Hor. Ep. i. xviii. 107. ' Ut mihi vivam Quod superest aevi.' Newton. Magnificence; and...
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Milton's Poetical Works, Volume 1

John Milton - 1853 - 374 pages
...resembles Hell ? As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please \ This desart soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want...time, Become our elements ; these piercing fires, As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper ; which must needs remove The sensible...
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Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical ..., Page 108, Volume 1

John Milton - 1853 - 370 pages
...resembles Hell ? As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please ? This desart soil AVants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we...time, Become our elements ; these piercing fires, As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper ; which must needs remove The sensible...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem,in Twelve Books; with a Memoir of the Author; Illus ...

John Milton - 1853 - 474 pages
...hell ! As he our darkness, cannot we his light Imitate when we please ? This desert soil Wants npt her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill...of time, Become our elements, these piercing fires, As soft as now severe, our temper changed Into their temper, which must needs remove The sensible of...
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The Bible in the Counting-house: A Course of Lectures to Merchants

Henry Augustus Boardman - Business ethics - 1853 - 432 pages
...that sublime spectacle, the Council in Pandemonium, has, indeed, made Mammon say, " This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want...raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven show more ? " But the only Teacher empowered to speak of that world, has presented us with another portraiture...
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The Bible in the Counting-house: A Course of Lectures to Merchants

Henry Augustus Boardman - Business & Economics - 1853 - 434 pages
...that sublime spectacle, the Council in Pandemonium, has, indeed, made Mammon say, " This desert soil Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want...raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven show more ? " But the only Teacher empowered to speak of that world, has presented us with another portraiture...
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