The Patrician, Volume 5John Burke, Bernard Burke E. Churton, 1848 - Genealogy |
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... magnificence and energy . His whole description of the abasement of the angels , and of the infernal abyss , is conceived in the noblest style of VOL . V. , NO XXI . B poetry ; the flaming , rushing fall of the apostate.
... magnificence and energy . His whole description of the abasement of the angels , and of the infernal abyss , is conceived in the noblest style of VOL . V. , NO XXI . B poetry ; the flaming , rushing fall of the apostate.
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... whole work ; and here we think Milton eminently successful . The first glimpse of Satan is given us in the following lines , which , whilst too indefinite to provoke the scrutiny of the reason , fill the imagination of the reader with a ...
... whole work ; and here we think Milton eminently successful . The first glimpse of Satan is given us in the following lines , which , whilst too indefinite to provoke the scrutiny of the reason , fill the imagination of the reader with a ...
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... whole life long , Hoarser and hoarser , every minute sings ! Each Morning , I awake , in fear , And fain my bitterest tears would run , To see the Day , whose dull career Shall gratify no wish - not one ! While each presentiment of joy ...
... whole life long , Hoarser and hoarser , every minute sings ! Each Morning , I awake , in fear , And fain my bitterest tears would run , To see the Day , whose dull career Shall gratify no wish - not one ! While each presentiment of joy ...
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... whole life through , E'er struck a dagger thro ' my breast , " Tis that Man's horrid look ! FAUST . That man you need not fear . Nay , nay , my dear , MARGARET . I bear good - will to all , as Christians should , But his mere presence ...
... whole life through , E'er struck a dagger thro ' my breast , " Tis that Man's horrid look ! FAUST . That man you need not fear . Nay , nay , my dear , MARGARET . I bear good - will to all , as Christians should , But his mere presence ...
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... whole of the stormy period from the Reformation to the Revolution . The time of Mr. John Welch's preaching in Fife was from about 1670 to 1674 . HISTORIC RUINS Strancally Castle . A FORTRESS OF THE DESMOND 82 CURIOUS TRIALS CONNECTED ...
... whole of the stormy period from the Reformation to the Revolution . The time of Mr. John Welch's preaching in Fife was from about 1670 to 1674 . HISTORIC RUINS Strancally Castle . A FORTRESS OF THE DESMOND 82 CURIOUS TRIALS CONNECTED ...
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Page 6 - tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens ; to the which our wills are gardeners : so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce ; set hyssop, and weed up thyme ; supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry ; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills.
Page 523 - Father of light and life, Thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ; teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit ; and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure, Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 4 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 3 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light...
Page 3 - Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.
Page 2 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 4 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno to descry new lands, .Rivers or mountains in her spotty globe; His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand.
Page 248 - The days of our age are threescore years and ten; and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years : | yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
Page 147 - Kisses and welcomings upon the air, Which they make breezy with affectionate gestures. From all the towers rings out the merry peal, The joyous vespers of a bloody day. 0 happy man, O fortunate ! for whom The well-known door, the faithful arms are open, The faithful tender arms with mute embracing.
Page 70 - Hilda pray'd ; Themselves, within their holy bound, Their stony folds had often found. They told, how sea-fowls...