Paradise regain'd, a poem. To which is added Samson agonistes; and Poems upon several occasions, with a Tractate of education1747 |
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... truth , if I could then have imagin'd your farther ftay in these parts , which I understood afterwards by Mr. H. I would have been bold in our vulgar phrafe , to mend my draught , ( for you left me with an extreme thirst ) and to have ...
... truth , if I could then have imagin'd your farther ftay in these parts , which I understood afterwards by Mr. H. I would have been bold in our vulgar phrafe , to mend my draught , ( for you left me with an extreme thirst ) and to have ...
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... truth and honesty , That thou haft banifht from thy tongue with lyes , Was this the cottage , and the safe abode Thou told'ft me of ? What grim afpects are thefe , Thefe owly - headed Monsters ? Mercy guard me ! Hence with thy brew'd ...
... truth and honesty , That thou haft banifht from thy tongue with lyes , Was this the cottage , and the safe abode Thou told'ft me of ? What grim afpects are thefe , Thefe owly - headed Monsters ? Mercy guard me ! Hence with thy brew'd ...
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... truth , And fent them here through bard affays With a Crown of deathless Praife , To triumph in victorious dance O'er fenfual Folly , and Intemperance . The Dances ended , the Spirit Epiloguizes . Spir . To the Ocean now I fly , And ...
... truth , And fent them here through bard affays With a Crown of deathless Praife , To triumph in victorious dance O'er fenfual Folly , and Intemperance . The Dances ended , the Spirit Epiloguizes . Spir . To the Ocean now I fly , And ...
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... Truth and Justice then Will down return to men , Orb'd in a Rain - bow , and like glories wearing : Mercy will fit between , Thron'd in Celestial sheen , With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering ; And Heav'n , as at fome ...
... Truth and Justice then Will down return to men , Orb'd in a Rain - bow , and like glories wearing : Mercy will fit between , Thron'd in Celestial sheen , With radiant feet the tissued clouds down steering ; And Heav'n , as at fome ...
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... Truth ? Or any other of that Heav'nly brood , Let down in cloudy throne to do the World fome IX . Or wert thou of the golden - winged hoft , Who , having clad thy felf in human weed , To earth from thy prefixed feat didft poft , And ...
... Truth ? Or any other of that Heav'nly brood , Let down in cloudy throne to do the World fome IX . Or wert thou of the golden - winged hoft , Who , having clad thy felf in human weed , To earth from thy prefixed feat didft poft , And ...
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Сторінка 367 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Сторінка 212 - And though the shady gloom Had given day her room, The sun himself withheld his wonted speed, And hid his head for shame...
Сторінка 234 - WHAT needs my Shakespeare, for his honour'd bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Or that his hallow'd relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Сторінка 209 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Сторінка 210 - Muse, shall not thy sacred vein Afford a present to the Infant God? Hast thou no verse, no hymn, or solemn strain, To welcome him to this his new abode, Now while the Heav'n by the sun's team untrod, Hath took no print of the approaching light...
Сторінка 211 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began; The winds with wonder whist, Smoothly the waters kissed Whispering new joys to the mild ocean — Who now hath quite forgot to rave, While birds of calm sit brooding on the charmed wave.
Сторінка 189 - Begin to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turns it, by degrees, to the soul's essence, Till all be made immortal : but when lust, By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish act of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies, and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
Сторінка 235 - Here lies old Hobson. Death hath broke his girt, And here, alas! hath laid him in the dirt; Or else, the ways being foul, twenty to one He's here stuck in a slough, and overthrown. 'Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down; For he had any time this ten years full Dodged with him betwixt Cambridge and The Bull.
Сторінка 211 - Pollute with sinful blame, The saintly veil of maiden white to throw ; Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so near upon her foul deformities.
Сторінка 240 - Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still, Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill, While the jolly hours lead on propitious May ; Thy liquid notes that close the eye of day, First heard before the shallow cuckoo's bill, Portend success in love ; O if Jove's will Have linked that amorous power to thy soft lay, Now timely sing, ere the rude bird of hate...