Select Works of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Prefaces, Volume 2John Aikin Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1821 - 807 páginas |
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... comes unearn'd ? " To whom mild answer Adam thus return'd " Sole Eve , associate sole , to me beyond Compare above all living creatures dear ! Well hast thou motion'd , well thy thoughts employ'd , How we might best fulfil the work ...
... comes unearn'd ? " To whom mild answer Adam thus return'd " Sole Eve , associate sole , to me beyond Compare above all living creatures dear ! Well hast thou motion'd , well thy thoughts employ'd , How we might best fulfil the work ...
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... Comes thundering back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head ; both Death and I Are found eternal , and incorporate both ; Nor I on my part single ; in me all Posterity stands curs'd : fair patrimony That I must leave ye , sons ...
... Comes thundering back with dreadful revolution On my defenceless head ; both Death and I Are found eternal , and incorporate both ; Nor I on my part single ; in me all Posterity stands curs'd : fair patrimony That I must leave ye , sons ...
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... comes not Death , Said he , " with one thrice - acceptable stroke To end me ? Shall Truth fail to keep her word , Justice Divine not hasten to be just ? But Death comes not at call ; Justice Divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers ...
... comes not Death , Said he , " with one thrice - acceptable stroke To end me ? Shall Truth fail to keep her word , Justice Divine not hasten to be just ? But Death comes not at call ; Justice Divine Mends not her slowest pace for prayers ...
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... come in future days To thee , and to thy offspring : good with bad Expect to hear ; supernal grace contending With ... comes . — Ascend This hill ; let Eve ( for I have drench'd her eyes ) Here sleep below ; while thou to foresight wak ...
... come in future days To thee , and to thy offspring : good with bad Expect to hear ; supernal grace contending With ... comes . — Ascend This hill ; let Eve ( for I have drench'd her eyes ) Here sleep below ; while thou to foresight wak ...
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... comes it thus ? unfold , celestial guide , And whether here the race of Man will end . " To whom thus Michael . 66 Those , whom last thou saw'st In triumph and luxurious wealth , are they First seen in acts of prowess eminent And great ...
... comes it thus ? unfold , celestial guide , And whether here the race of Man will end . " To whom thus Michael . 66 Those , whom last thou saw'st In triumph and luxurious wealth , are they First seen in acts of prowess eminent And great ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Adam Amoret angels arms aught beast behold Belgian bring call'd Canaan cherubim Chor clouds Ctesiphon Dagon dark death deeds descend design'd divine dreadful dwell Earth enemies evil eyes fair faith fame fate father fear fight fire fix'd flame foretold fruit Gath glory gods hand hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell honour hope Israel Jephtha Jesus JOHN DRYDEN judg'd king kingdom labour lest live Lord lost Manoah Messiah mighty mind mortal nations Nazarite nigh night numbers o'er Paradise Parthian peace Philistines promis'd rais'd reign replied return'd river Jordan round Sams Samson sapience Satan Saviour seed seek seem'd serpent shame sight Son of God soon spake spirit stood strength sweet taste tempter thee thence thine things thither thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tree turn'd vex'd virtue voice whence winds wings
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Página 290 - Tell her that's young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended died. Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired ; Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. Then die, that she The common fate of all things rare May read in thee ; How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair.
Página 261 - All is best, though we oft doubt, What the unsearchable dispose Of highest wisdom brings about, And ever best found in the close. Oft he seems to hide his face, But unexpectedly returns And to his faithful champion hath in place Bore witness gloriously...
Página 265 - tis said) Before was never made, But when of old the sons of morning sung, While the Creator great His constellations set, And the well-balanced world on hinges hung ; And cast the dark foundations deep, And bid the weltering waves their oozy channel keep.
Página 126 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropt, but wiped them soon: The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Página 125 - For God is also in sleep, and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied I fell asleep : but now lead on ; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence. This further consolation yet secure I carry hence; though all by me is lost, Such favour I unworthy am vouchsafed,...
Página 208 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave. Since light so necessary is to life, And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, She all in every part, — why was the sight To such a tender ball as...
Página 135 - 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 ; myself I thought Born to that end, born to promote all truth, All righteous things.
Página 85 - O flowers, That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Página 266 - For, if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back and fetch the age of gold; And speckled Vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous Sin will melt from earthly mould...
Página 263 - And though the shady gloom Had given day her room, The sun himself withheld his wonted speed, And hid his head for shame, As his inferior flame The new-enlightened world no more should need; He saw a greater Sun appear Than his bright throne, or burning axletree, could bear.