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... once Awaken'd in me swarm , while I consider What from within I feel myself . When I was yet a child , no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know , and thence to do What might be public good ...
... once Awaken'd in me swarm , while I consider What from within I feel myself . When I was yet a child , no childish play To me was pleasing ; all my mind was set Serious to learn and know , and thence to do What might be public good ...
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... secret things that came to pass When beldame Nature in her cradle was ; And last , of kings and queens and heroes old ; Such as the wise Demodocus once told HIS YOUTH . In solemn songs at king Alcinöus ' 12 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MILTON .
... secret things that came to pass When beldame Nature in her cradle was ; And last , of kings and queens and heroes old ; Such as the wise Demodocus once told HIS YOUTH . In solemn songs at king Alcinöus ' 12 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MILTON .
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... once more afterwards not ; he further had a disagreement with his tutor Chappel , and withdrew for part of a term , but was not ' rusticated ' in the proper and usual sense of the word . On his return he became the pupil of Tovey . 1 ...
... once more afterwards not ; he further had a disagreement with his tutor Chappel , and withdrew for part of a term , but was not ' rusticated ' in the proper and usual sense of the word . On his return he became the pupil of Tovey . 1 ...
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... once to behold the beloved countenance , and to speak a sad word or two in her presence ! Perchance she is not made of adamant ; perchance she might not be deaf to my prayers . Spare me , I pray , thou winged god of love . Take away ...
... once to behold the beloved countenance , and to speak a sad word or two in her presence ! Perchance she is not made of adamant ; perchance she might not be deaf to my prayers . Spare me , I pray , thou winged god of love . Take away ...
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... once - begun love of the Muses ; nay , blind Chance herself , as if suddenly become prudent and provident , seems to have set herself against the same result . Sooner than I could have anticipated , Ignorance has found an advocate for ...
... once - begun love of the Muses ; nay , blind Chance herself , as if suddenly become prudent and provident , seems to have set herself against the same result . Sooner than I could have anticipated , Ignorance has found an advocate for ...
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Page 114 - As one who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 85 - 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 83 - ... to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune ; to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what he works, and what he suffers to be wrought with high providence in his church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations, doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
Page 157 - 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, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 161 - Ah me! for aught that ever I could read. Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth: But, either it was different in blood; Her.
Page 158 - Attractive, human, rational, love still: In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not: love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges: hath his seat In reason, and is judicious; is the scale By which to heav'nly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure; for which cause Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Page 170 - The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 161 - She ended weeping, and her lowly plight, Immoveable till peace obtain'd from fault Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration ; soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress...
Page 155 - Purification in the Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
Page 171 - God of our fathers ! what is Man, That thou towards him with hand so various — Or might I say contrarious...