The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2William Pickering, 1852 |
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... knowledge : fair it seem'd , Much fairer to my fancy than by day : And as I wond'ring look'd , beside it stood One shap'd and wing'd like one of those from heav'n By us oft seen ; his dewy locks distill'd Ambrosia ; on that tree he also ...
... knowledge : fair it seem'd , Much fairer to my fancy than by day : And as I wond'ring look'd , beside it stood One shap'd and wing'd like one of those from heav'n By us oft seen ; his dewy locks distill'd Ambrosia ; on that tree he also ...
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... knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell when nature rests . Oft in her absence mimic fancy wakes To imitate her ; but , misjoining shapes , Wild work produces oft , and most in dreams , Ill matching words and deeds ...
... knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell when nature rests . Oft in her absence mimic fancy wakes To imitate her ; but , misjoining shapes , Wild work produces oft , and most in dreams , Ill matching words and deeds ...
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... knowledge , and the scale of nature set From center to circumference , whereon In contemplation of created things By steps we may ascend to GOD . But say , What meant that caution join'd , if ye be found Obedient ? Can we want obedience ...
... knowledge , and the scale of nature set From center to circumference , whereon In contemplation of created things By steps we may ascend to GOD . But say , What meant that caution join'd , if ye be found Obedient ? Can we want obedience ...
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... knowledge could not reach : For which to the infinitely Good we owe Immortal thanks , and his admonishment Receive with solemn purpose to observe Immutably his sovereign will , the end 76 Of what we are . But since thou hast vouchsaf'd ...
... knowledge could not reach : For which to the infinitely Good we owe Immortal thanks , and his admonishment Receive with solemn purpose to observe Immutably his sovereign will , the end 76 Of what we are . But since thou hast vouchsaf'd ...
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... knowledge within bounds ; beyond abstain 190 To ask , nor let thine own inventions hope Things not reveal'd , which th ' invisible King , Only omniscient , hath supprest in night , To none communicable in earth or heaven : Enough is ...
... knowledge within bounds ; beyond abstain 190 To ask , nor let thine own inventions hope Things not reveal'd , which th ' invisible King , Only omniscient , hath supprest in night , To none communicable in earth or heaven : Enough is ...
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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.