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... Heaven against the English Parricides " A grateful recollection of the divine goodness is the first of human obligations ; and extraordinary favours demand more solemn and devout acknowledgments : with such acknowledg- ments I feel it ...
... Heaven against the English Parricides " A grateful recollection of the divine goodness is the first of human obligations ; and extraordinary favours demand more solemn and devout acknowledgments : with such acknowledg- ments I feel it ...
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John Milton Hiram Corson. vigour of enterprise , having invoked Heaven to witness the justice of their cause , and been clearly governed by its direc- tions , has succeeded in delivering the commonwealth from the most grievous tyranny ...
John Milton Hiram Corson. vigour of enterprise , having invoked Heaven to witness the justice of their cause , and been clearly governed by its direc- tions , has succeeded in delivering the commonwealth from the most grievous tyranny ...
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... heaven than to their own want of innocence or virtue ? What is reported of the Augur Tire- sias is well known ; of whom Apollonius sung thus in his Ar- gonautica : ' To men he dared the will divine disclose , Nor feared what Jove might ...
... heaven than to their own want of innocence or virtue ? What is reported of the Augur Tire- sias is well known ; of whom Apollonius sung thus in his Ar- gonautica : ' To men he dared the will divine disclose , Nor feared what Jove might ...
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... heaven of the full - grown Jove , and pious heroes , and demi- god leaders of men , the man who now sings the holy counsels of the gods above , and now the subterranean realms guarded by the fierce dog — let him live sparely , after the ...
... heaven of the full - grown Jove , and pious heroes , and demi- god leaders of men , the man who now sings the holy counsels of the gods above , and now the subterranean realms guarded by the fierce dog — let him live sparely , after the ...
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... Heaven , and the sky with the new- sprung star in it , and the ethereal choirs of hymning angels , and the gods of the heathen suddenly fleeing to their endan- gered fanes . This is the gift which we have presented to Christ's natal day ...
... Heaven , and the sky with the new- sprung star in it , and the ethereal choirs of hymning angels , and the gods of the heathen suddenly fleeing to their endan- gered fanes . This is the gift which we have presented to Christ's natal day ...
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Æneid appear Areopagitica autobiographic passages Bishop blind called cause Charles Diodati Chorus church civil Comus Dagon dark death deeds deliverance didst divine enemies England English evil eyes Familiar Letters father favour fear feast gift glorious glory Greek hand Harapha hath Heaven heavenly Henry Oldenburg honour hope Jacopo Gaddi Jerome Zanchius JOHN MILTON Jove Keightley king labour Lady Latin learned liberty light live lords Lucas Holstenius Lycidas Manoa Mark Pattison Masson means metonymy Milton mind mortal Muse never noble Paradise Lost peace Pelops perhaps person Philistines poem poet poetical praise prelates present prose religion Robert Fellowes sacred Salmasius Samson Samson Agonistes Second Defence shepherd sight Smectymnuus song soon soul spirit strength thee things thou hast thought tion true truth tyrants verse virtue William Faithorne words write youth
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Page 106 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 178 - Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves, Where other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the Saints above, In solemn troops, and sweet societies, That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page 173 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer.
Page 176 - Last came, and last did go, The pilot of the Galilean Lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain...
Page 174 - For we were nursed upon the self-same hill. Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill.
Page 170 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest; Blind mouths!
Page xvii - ... an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.
Page 170 - The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed, But, swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly, and foul contagion spread...
Page 143 - Virtue could see to do what virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk. And wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, Where with her best nurse, contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i...
Page 91 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope, but still bear up and steer Right onward.