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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... reply'd the Swain , What other way I fee not , for we here Live on tough roots and stubs , to thirst inur'd More than the Camel , and to drink go far , Men to much mifery and hardship born ; But if thou be the Son of God , Command That ...
... reply'd the Swain , What other way I fee not , for we here Live on tough roots and stubs , to thirst inur'd More than the Camel , and to drink go far , Men to much mifery and hardship born ; But if thou be the Son of God , Command That ...
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... reply'd . Deservedly thou griev'st , compos'd of lies From the beginning , and in lies wilt end ; Who boaft'st release from Hell , and leave to come Into the Heav'n of Heav'ns , thou com'st indeed , As a poor miferable captive thrall ...
... reply'd . Deservedly thou griev'st , compos'd of lies From the beginning , and in lies wilt end ; Who boaft'st release from Hell , and leave to come Into the Heav'n of Heav'ns , thou com'st indeed , As a poor miferable captive thrall ...
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... reply'd , Tell me if Food were now before thee set , Would'st thou not eat ? Thereafter as I like The giver , answer'd Jesus . Why should that Cause thy refusal , faid the subtle Fiend , Haft thou not right to all Created things , Owe ...
... reply'd , Tell me if Food were now before thee set , Would'st thou not eat ? Thereafter as I like The giver , answer'd Jesus . Why should that Cause thy refusal , faid the subtle Fiend , Haft thou not right to all Created things , Owe ...
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... gentle Ministers , who come to pay Thee homage , and acknowledge thee their Lord : What doubt'st thou Son of God ? fit down and eat . To 1 To whom thus Jesus temp'rately reply'd : Said'st thou not 40 Book II . PARADISE Regain'd .
... gentle Ministers , who come to pay Thee homage , and acknowledge thee their Lord : What doubt'st thou Son of God ? fit down and eat . To 1 To whom thus Jesus temp'rately reply'd : Said'st thou not 40 Book II . PARADISE Regain'd .
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... reply'd : Said'st thou not that to all things I had right ? And who with - holds my pow'r that right to use ? Shall I receive by gift what of my own , When and where likes me best , I can command ? I can at will , doubt not , as foon as ...
... reply'd : Said'st thou not that to all things I had right ? And who with - holds my pow'r that right to use ? Shall I receive by gift what of my own , When and where likes me best , I can command ? I can at will , doubt not , as foon as ...
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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.