The Poetical Works ...Macmillan & Company, 1882 |
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... taste Brought death into the world , and all our woe , With loss of Eden . " This is a true enough description , because the whole story bears on this point . But it is the vast comprehension of the story , both in space and in time ...
... taste Brought death into the world , and all our woe , With loss of Eden . " This is a true enough description , because the whole story bears on this point . But it is the vast comprehension of the story , both in space and in time ...
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... taste delights In things unsavoury to sound appetites , Even so some brain - sicks live there now - a - days That lose themselves still in contrary ways , - Preposterous wits that cannot row at ease On the smooth channel of our common ...
... taste delights In things unsavoury to sound appetites , Even so some brain - sicks live there now - a - days That lose themselves still in contrary ways , - Preposterous wits that cannot row at ease On the smooth channel of our common ...
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... taste Brought death into the World , and all our woe , With loss of Eden , till one greater Man Restore us , and regain the blissful seat , Sing , Heavenly Muse , that , on the secret top Of Oreb , or of Sinai , didst inspire That Book I.
... taste Brought death into the World , and all our woe , With loss of Eden , till one greater Man Restore us , and regain the blissful seat , Sing , Heavenly Muse , that , on the secret top Of Oreb , or of Sinai , didst inspire That Book I.
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... taste of living wight , as once it fled The lip of Tantalus . Thus roving on In confused march forlorn , the adventurous bands , With shuddering horror pale , and eyes aghast , Viewed first their lamentable lot , and found No rest ...
... taste of living wight , as once it fled The lip of Tantalus . Thus roving on In confused march forlorn , the adventurous bands , With shuddering horror pale , and eyes aghast , Viewed first their lamentable lot , and found No rest ...
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... taste thy folly , and learn by proof , Hell - born , not to contend with Spirits of Heaven . " To whom the Goblin , full of wrath , replied : - “ Art thou that Traitor - Angel , art thou he , 680 Who first broke peace in Heaven and ...
... taste thy folly , and learn by proof , Hell - born , not to contend with Spirits of Heaven . " To whom the Goblin , full of wrath , replied : - “ Art thou that Traitor - Angel , art thou he , 680 Who first broke peace in Heaven and ...
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Page 123 - 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. 50 So much the rather thou. Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate; there plant eyes; all mist from thence Purge and disperse,...
Page 122 - 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...
Page 178 - Angels — for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing — ye in Heaven ; On Earth join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 178 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 19 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame 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 68 - Sing, heavenly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos: or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme...
Page 178 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle multiform, and mix And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 89 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 99 - Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state. Deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic, though in ruin. Sage he stood, With Atlantean l shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies • his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 55 - Thus talking, hand in hand alone they passed On to their blissful bower; it was a place Chosen by the sovereign planter, when He framed All things to man's delightful use: the roof Of thickest covert, was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus and each odorous bushy shrub Fenced up the verdant wall, each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine, Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; under foot...