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... delight of every accomplished mind , but it is a duty . He who is not conversant with it , cannot conceive how far the genius of the Muse can go . The bard , whatever might have been his inborn genius , could never have at- tained this ...
... delight of every accomplished mind , but it is a duty . He who is not conversant with it , cannot conceive how far the genius of the Muse can go . The bard , whatever might have been his inborn genius , could never have at- tained this ...
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... Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian Mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet ...
... Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian Mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet ...
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... delight , As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist . If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good , Our labor must be to pervert that end , And out of good still to find means of evil ; Which oft - times ...
... delight , As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist . If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good , Our labor must be to pervert that end , And out of good still to find means of evil ; Which oft - times ...
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... delightful seat Was fair Damascus , on the fertile banks Of Abbana and Pharphar , lucid streams . He also ' gainst the house of God was bold : A leper once he lost , and gain'd a king ; Ahaz his sottish conqu'ror , whom he drew God's ...
... delightful seat Was fair Damascus , on the fertile banks Of Abbana and Pharphar , lucid streams . He also ' gainst the house of God was bold : A leper once he lost , and gain'd a king ; Ahaz his sottish conqu'ror , whom he drew God's ...
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... all of which are severally detected , to the great delight and surprise of the reader . It may , likewise , be observed , with how much art the poet has varied several characters of the persons that speak in his infernal 56 PARADISE LOST .
... all of which are severally detected , to the great delight and surprise of the reader . It may , likewise , be observed , with how much art the poet has varied several characters of the persons that speak in his infernal 56 PARADISE LOST .
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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 104 - Tunes her nocturnal note : 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 ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 17 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 92 - 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 174 - 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 175 - Nor think, though men were none, That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the Earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep : All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night.
Page 76 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 199 - The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord! Be bounteous still To give us only good; and, if the night Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
Page 90 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 50 - The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse.