The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2William Pickering, 1852 |
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... delight , Awake , the morning shines , and the fresh field 20 Calls us , we lose the prime , to mark how spring Our tended plants , how blows the citron grove , What drops the myrrh , and what the balmy reed , How nature paints her ...
... delight , Awake , the morning shines , and the fresh field 20 Calls us , we lose the prime , to mark how spring Our tended plants , how blows the citron grove , What drops the myrrh , and what the balmy reed , How nature paints her ...
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... 310 morn ] See Crashaw's Delights , p . 52 . ་ • Who's this that comes arched in rayes that scorn Acquaintance with the Sun ? At midday opes a presence ? ' What second morn 335 340 So saying , with dispatchful looks in haste BOOK V. 15.
... 310 morn ] See Crashaw's Delights , p . 52 . ་ • Who's this that comes arched in rayes that scorn Acquaintance with the Sun ? At midday opes a presence ? ' What second morn 335 340 So saying , with dispatchful looks in haste BOOK V. 15.
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... delight hath caus'd The earth to yield ; unsavoury food , perhaps , To spiritual natures : only this I know , That one celestial Father gives to all . 400 405 To whom the angel . Therefore what he gives , Whose praise be ever sung , to ...
... delight hath caus'd The earth to yield ; unsavoury food , perhaps , To spiritual natures : only this I know , That one celestial Father gives to all . 400 405 To whom the angel . Therefore what he gives , Whose praise be ever sung , to ...
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... delights , As may compare with heaven ; and to taste Think not I shall be nice . So down they sat , And to their viands fell ; nor seemingly The angel , nor in mist , the common gloss 422 moist ] Marino's Sl . of the Innocents , lib ...
... delights , As may compare with heaven ; and to taste Think not I shall be nice . So down they sat , And to their viands fell ; nor seemingly The angel , nor in mist , the common gloss 422 moist ] Marino's Sl . of the Innocents , lib ...
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... Attentive , and with more delighted ear , Divine instructor , I have heard , than when 540 545 Cherubic songs by night from neighbouring hills Aereal music send ; nor knew I not 550 To be both will and deed created free ; BOOK V. 23.
... Attentive , and with more delighted ear , Divine instructor , I have heard , than when 540 545 Cherubic songs by night from neighbouring hills Aereal music send ; nor knew I not 550 To be both will and deed created free ; BOOK V. 23.
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Adam Adamus Exsul angels answer'd appear'd arms aught battel beast behold Bentl Bentley bliss bright call'd Cherubim cloud dark death delight divine Du Bartas Dunster dwell Dyce earth Epig eternal ev'ning evil eyes fair Father fear Fenton flow'rs fruit giv'n glory ground hand happy hast hath heard heart heav'n heav'nly hell highth hill honour join'd king lest light live Lord mankind may'st Messiah Milton's own edition morn Newton nigh night Ovid paradise PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAINED Proserpina rais'd Raphael reign reply'd return'd sapience Satan Saviour seat seem'd serpent Shakesp shalt shame sight Son of God soon spake Spens spirits stars stood sung sweet taste tempter thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne Todd tree turn'd vex'd Virg virtue voice whence wings
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Page 173 - But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 232 - That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount ? Thee, lastly, nuptial bower, by me...
Page 8 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 240 - Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Page 112 - By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung, As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet : about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these, Creatures that liv'd and mov'd, and walk'd, or flew ; Birds on the branches warbling; all things smil'd; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflow'd.
Page 242 - I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust? There is...
Page 103 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather : he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses ; from his lip Not words alone pleas,d her.
Page 220 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judg'd us, prostrate fall Before him reverent; and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg; with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd, and humilation meek?
Page 142 - Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew ; and, like a wood-nymph light, Oread or Dryad, or of Delia's train, Betook her to the groves ; but Delia's self In gait...
Page 232 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil ! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.