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" Depress'd and overthrown as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust. "
The British Essayists; with Prefaces, Historical and Biographical,: The Rambler - Page 186
by Alexander Chalmers - 1811
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On Milton's 'Samson Agonistes' both as a drama and an illustration of the ...

H. Th Wolff - 1871 - 40 pages
...lost, Depress'd, and overthrown, as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods imbost, That no second knows nor third, And lay ere while a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Eevives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd, And though her body die, her fame...
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The poetical works of John Milton, ed. with a critical memoir by ..., Issue 322

John Milton - 1871 - 530 pages
...thunder bolted on their heads. So virtue, given for lost, Depress'd, and overthrown, as seem'd, Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows, nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most...
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English Poems, Volume 2

John Milton - 1872 - 452 pages
...self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, 1700 That no second knows nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives,...reflourishes, then vigorous most When most unactive deem'd; 1705 And, though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives. Manoa. Come, come,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed a Biography of the ...

John Milton, Edward Phillips - 1872 - 614 pages
...that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods imbost, That no second knows nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When most inactive deem'd, And though her body die, her fame survives, A secular bird, ages of lives. Come, come,...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton. Edited, with Introductions ..., Volume 1

John Milton, Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1874 - 608 pages
...on thir heads. So vertue giv'n for lost, Deprest, and overthrown, as seem'd, Like that self-begott'n bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third And lay e'rewhile a Holocaust, From out her ashie womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most...
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The Friendship of Books, and Other Lectures

Frederick Denison Maurice - Books and reading - 1874 - 432 pages
...eyes illuminated, His fierye vertue rouz'd From under ashes into sudden flame, Like that self-begott'n bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay erewhile a Holocaust, From out her ashie womb now teem'd, Eevives, re-flourishes, then vigorous most...
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Civil Service of India: Open Competition for the Regulations, Examinations ...

Civil service - 1878 - 228 pages
...thunder bolted on their heads. So virtue given for lost, Depressed and overthrown, as seemed, Life that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay crewhile a holocaust From out her ashy womb now teemed, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most When...
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Dublin examination papers

Dublin city, univ - 1878 - 498 pages
...that God plated "spectrum quoddam vehemens et terribile" before the gates of Paradise ? (g). " Like that self-begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust." Explain. 7. Where are the following passages to be found ? — (a). " Now more...
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First B.A. Examination, University of London: A Hand-book to the Study of ...

J. G - 1878 - 408 pages
...their heads. So Virtue, given for lost, Depress'd, and overthrown, as seem'd, Like that self -begotten bird In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teem'd, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most...
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The Life of John Milton: 1660-2674

David Masson - 1880 - 880 pages
...thunder bolted on their heads. So Virtue, given for lost, Depressed and overthrown, as seemed, Like that self-begotten bird, In the Arabian woods embost, That no second knows nor third, And lay erewhile a holocaust, From out her ashy womb now teemed, Revives, reflourishes, then vigorous most...
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