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... worthy ( the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion , which a certain sorceress , the abuser of love's name , carries about ) ; and how the first and chiefest office of love begins and ends in the soul , produc- ing those ...
... worthy ( the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion , which a certain sorceress , the abuser of love's name , carries about ) ; and how the first and chiefest office of love begins and ends in the soul , produc- ing those ...
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... and thoroughly to exhaust all the hiding- places of the elegancies , so that I might bring hither something worthy of so great expectation , COLLEGE LIFE . 25 of so illustrious an assembly , 24 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MILTON .
... and thoroughly to exhaust all the hiding- places of the elegancies , so that I might bring hither something worthy of so great expectation , COLLEGE LIFE . 25 of so illustrious an assembly , 24 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF JOHN MILTON .
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... could acquire , and this other making no account of Philosophy , because forsooth Nature , that fairest of the goddesses , never deemed him worthy of such an honour as that she should let him behold her naked charms — yet I.
... could acquire , and this other making no account of Philosophy , because forsooth Nature , that fairest of the goddesses , never deemed him worthy of such an honour as that she should let him behold her naked charms — yet I.
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... worthy of esteem , I could not wrong their judgments and upright in- tentions , so much as to think I had that regard from them for other cause , than that I might be still encouraged to proceed in the honest and laudable courses , of ...
... worthy of esteem , I could not wrong their judgments and upright in- tentions , so much as to think I had that regard from them for other cause , than that I might be still encouraged to proceed in the honest and laudable courses , of ...
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... worthy bidden guest ; Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep - hook , or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! The hungry sheep look up , and are not fed . ' 2 Lycidas ...
... worthy bidden guest ; Blind mouths ! that scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep - hook , or have learn'd aught else the least That to the faithful herdsman's art belongs ! The hungry sheep look up , and are not fed . ' 2 Lycidas ...
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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...