Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; and for S. Birt, C. Hitch, J. Hodges [and seven others in London], 1750 |
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... hath suppress'd in night , To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left befides to search and know . But knowledge is as food , and needs no less Her temp'rance over appetite , to know In measure what the mind may well ...
... hath suppress'd in night , To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left befides to search and know . But knowledge is as food , and needs no less Her temp'rance over appetite , to know In measure what the mind may well ...
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... hath suppress'd in night , To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left befides to search and know . But knowledge is as food , and needs no less Her temp'rance over appetite , to know In measure what the mind may well ...
... hath suppress'd in night , To none communicable in Earth or Heaven : Enough is left befides to search and know . But knowledge is as food , and needs no less Her temp'rance over appetite , to know In measure what the mind may well ...
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... hath fail'd , who thought All like himself rebellious , by whose aid 140 This inaccessible high strength , the feat Of deity fupreme , us dispossess'd , 3 He trusted to have seis'd , and into fraud Drew been employ'd here , when he is ...
... hath fail'd , who thought All like himself rebellious , by whose aid 140 This inaccessible high strength , the feat Of deity fupreme , us dispossess'd , 3 He trusted to have seis'd , and into fraud Drew been employ'd here , when he is ...
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... hath given us a parallel instance out of Shakespear , and says that no poet did ever equal this beauty but Shake- fpear . In Macbeth , Act II . What hath quench'd them , hath giv'n me fire . Hark , peace . 224. - the fervid wheels ...
... hath given us a parallel instance out of Shakespear , and says that no poet did ever equal this beauty but Shake- fpear . In Macbeth , Act II . What hath quench'd them , hath giv'n me fire . Hark , peace . 224. - the fervid wheels ...
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... hath a long herd . Æn . I. 186 . - et longum per valles pafcitur agmen . Richardfon . 463. The graffy clods now calv'd , ] Dr. Bentley quarrels with this ex- preffion , and fays that calv'd is a metaphor very heroical , especially for ...
... hath a long herd . Æn . I. 186 . - et longum per valles pafcitur agmen . Richardfon . 463. The graffy clods now calv'd , ] Dr. Bentley quarrels with this ex- preffion , and fays that calv'd is a metaphor very heroical , especially for ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Adam's Addison Æneid alſo Angel anſwer beaft beauty becauſe Bentley beſt bower call'd cauſe cloud courſe creatures death defire deſcribed deſcription diſcourſe divine earth elſe Engliſh expreſſes expreſſion faid fame ferpent fince firſt firſt parents fome fons foon foul fruit fuch hath heav'nly Heaven Hell Hume Iliad inſtances juſt laſt Latin leſs light Lord Milton moſt muſt night numbers obſerve occafion Ovid Paradiſe paſſage Pearce perſon pleaſing pleaſure poem poet pow'r preſent reader reaſon reply'd repreſented reſt Richardson riſe ſaid ſame Satan ſays Scripture ſea ſecond ſee ſeems ſeen ſenſe ſet ſeveral ſhall ſhe ſhort ſhould ſhow ſome ſpake ſpeaking ſpeech Spirit ſtand ſtars ſtate ſtill ſtory ſubject ſuch ſuppoſe ſweet taſte thee theſe things thoſe thou thought Thyer tion tree uſed verſe VIII Virg Virgil whoſe word
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Page 28 - And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night ; and let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days,
Page 9 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 64 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle,; but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 24 - Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky. So high as...
Page 406 - 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 Heav'n, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
Page 89 - Be strong, live happy, and love ! But, first of all, Him, whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command...
Page 309 - Nor knowing us nor known; and if by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of Him who all things can, I would not cease To weary Him with my assiduous cries. But prayer against His absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind, Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to His great bidding I submit.
Page 409 - They looking back, all th' eastern side beheld Of paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms : Some natural tears they dropt ; but wip'd them soon.
Page 21 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 310 - Stood visible, among these pines his voice I heard, here with him at this fountain talk'd...