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Page 78
With reason , tu ber seeming , and with truth ; Queen of this universe , do not
believe Mean while the hour of noon drew on , and Those rigid threats of death :
ye shall not die : wak'd How should ye ? By the fruit ? It gives you life An eager ...
With reason , tu ber seeming , and with truth ; Queen of this universe , do not
believe Mean while the hour of noon drew on , and Those rigid threats of death :
ye shall not die : wak'd How should ye ? By the fruit ? It gives you life An eager ...
Page 80
So forcible within my heart I feel How art thou lost , how on a sudden lost , The
bond of Nature draw me to my own , Defac ' ' , deflower'd , and vow to death
devote ? My own in tbee , for what thou art is mine ; Rather how bast thou yielded
to ...
So forcible within my heart I feel How art thou lost , how on a sudden lost , The
bond of Nature draw me to my own , Defac ' ' , deflower'd , and vow to death
devote ? My own in tbee , for what thou art is mine ; Rather how bast thou yielded
to ...
Page 91
How can he exercise All things with double terror : on the ground Wrath without
eud on man whom death must ... nake | Curst his creation , Deaths as oft accus'd
Can he make deathless death ? that were to Of tardy execution , since deuounc'd
...
How can he exercise All things with double terror : on the ground Wrath without
eud on man whom death must ... nake | Curst his creation , Deaths as oft accus'd
Can he make deathless death ? that were to Of tardy execution , since deuounc'd
...
Page 93
Bc Why wiand we longer shivering under fears , My labour will sustain me ; and
best cold Thatshew no end but death , and have the power Or beat should injure
is , his timely care of inany ways to die , the shortest chousing , Hath unbesought
...
Bc Why wiand we longer shivering under fears , My labour will sustain me ; and
best cold Thatshew no end but death , and have the power Or beat should injure
is , his timely care of inany ways to die , the shortest chousing , Hath unbesought
...
Page 107
To simple shepherds , keeping watch by night ; Seiz'd on hy force , judg d , and to
death conThey gladly thither haste , and by a quire demn'd Of squadron'd angels
hear his carol sung , A shameful and accurs'd , nail'd to the crose A virgin is ...
To simple shepherds , keeping watch by night ; Seiz'd on hy force , judg d , and to
death conThey gladly thither haste , and by a quire demn'd Of squadron'd angels
hear his carol sung , A shameful and accurs'd , nail'd to the crose A virgin is ...
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Page 4 - They heard, and were abash'd, and up they sprung Upon the wing ; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake. Nor did they not perceive the evil plight In which they were, or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their general's voice they soon obey'd, Innumerable.
Page 3 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell ; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Page 20 - Harmonious numbers ; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 34 - They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale. She all night long her amorous descant sung: Silence was pleased.
Page 34 - With thee conversing, I forget all time; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 9 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, • — which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus, and of Ind ; Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 65 - Rather admire; or if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb...
Page 4 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore : his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 90 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Page 66 - What if the sun Be centre to the world ; and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds...
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| Title | La Belle Assemblée, Volume 1 History of women |
| Publisher | J. Bell, 1806 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 15 Mar 2007 |
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