Paradise Regain'd: A Poem. In Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes. And Poems Upon Several Occasions. Compos'd at Several TimesJacob Tonson, 1707 - 457 pages |
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... state compar'd . 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 publick good ; my self I thought Born to that end , born to promote all truth ...
... state compar'd . 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 publick good ; my self I thought Born to that end , born to promote all truth ...
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... State ; Thence to the bait of Women lay expos'd ; But he whom we attempt is wifer far Than Solomon , of more exalted mind , Made and set wholly on th'accomplishment Of greatest things , what Woman will you find , Though of this age the ...
... State ; Thence to the bait of Women lay expos'd ; But he whom we attempt is wifer far Than Solomon , of more exalted mind , Made and set wholly on th'accomplishment Of greatest things , what Woman will you find , Though of this age the ...
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... state , and things adverse , By tribulations , injuries , infults , Contempts , and scorns , and snares , and violence , Suffering , abstaining , quietly expecting , Without diftrust or doubt , that he may know What I can fuffer , how ...
... state , and things adverse , By tribulations , injuries , infults , Contempts , and scorns , and snares , and violence , Suffering , abstaining , quietly expecting , Without diftrust or doubt , that he may know What I can fuffer , how ...
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... gentle brow Willingly I could flie , and hope thy reign , From that placid aspect and meek regard , Rather than aggravate my evil state , E 4 Would Would stand between me and thy Father's ire , ( Book III . PARADISE Regain'd . 55.
... gentle brow Willingly I could flie , and hope thy reign , From that placid aspect and meek regard , Rather than aggravate my evil state , E 4 Would Would stand between me and thy Father's ire , ( Book III . PARADISE Regain'd . 55.
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... state , Sufficient introduction to inform Thee , of thy felf so apt , in regal Arts , And regal Mysteries , that thou may'st know How beft their opposition to withstand . : With that ( such pow'r was giv'n him then ) he took The Son of ...
... state , Sufficient introduction to inform Thee , of thy felf so apt , in regal Arts , And regal Mysteries , that thou may'st know How beft their opposition to withstand . : With that ( such pow'r was giv'n him then ) he took The Son of ...
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Page 192 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade...
Page 193 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 187 - With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Page 174 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 194 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 154 - Is hate, not help to me, it may with mine Draw their own ruin who attempt the deed.
Page 257 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 103 - Why am I thus bereav'd 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.
Page 46 - Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Page 267 - The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.