Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 |
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... must be refolved into the good will and plea- fure of almighty God ; but there is a farther reafon according to Mil- ton's hypothefis , which is that God , after the expelling of Satan and his Angels out of Heaven , declar'd his ...
... must be refolved into the good will and plea- fure of almighty God ; but there is a farther reafon according to Mil- ton's hypothefis , which is that God , after the expelling of Satan and his Angels out of Heaven , declar'd his ...
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... must first hear it before he can be held by it . We have therefore follow'd the punctuation of Dr. Pearce ; and the fenfe feems plain , Το Et mutata fuos requierunt flumina curfus . Nay charms and verfes can bring the moon down from ...
... must first hear it before he can be held by it . We have therefore follow'd the punctuation of Dr. Pearce ; and the fenfe feems plain , Το Et mutata fuos requierunt flumina curfus . Nay charms and verfes can bring the moon down from ...
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... must be fomething different from the now elementary bodies , and that ( III . 716. ) is de- termin'd to be the ethereal quin- teffence , of which the heavenly luminous bodies were form'd . Richardson . Diffugere inde loci partes cœpere ...
... must be fomething different from the now elementary bodies , and that ( III . 716. ) is de- termin'd to be the ethereal quin- teffence , of which the heavenly luminous bodies were form'd . Richardson . Diffugere inde loci partes cœpere ...
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... must not understand the darting of rays from a luminous body , fuch as do now proceed from the fun , but those particles of matter which we call fire ( whofe properties we know are light and heat ) which the Almighty produc'd , as a ...
... must not understand the darting of rays from a luminous body , fuch as do now proceed from the fun , but those particles of matter which we call fire ( whofe properties we know are light and heat ) which the Almighty produc'd , as a ...
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... must say with Horace , De Arte Poet , 351 . Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine , non ego paucis Offendar maculis , quas aut incuria fudit , Aut humana parum cavit natura . -- 372 . jocond to run His longitude through Heav'n's high road ...
... must say with Horace , De Arte Poet , 351 . Verum ubi plura nitent in carmine , non ego paucis Offendar maculis , quas aut incuria fudit , Aut humana parum cavit natura . -- 372 . jocond to run His longitude through Heav'n's high road ...
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Page 9 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 431 - ... observe His providence; and on Him sole depend, Merciful over all His works, with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things, by things...
Page 149 - O Woman ! best are all things as the will Of God ordain'd them; his creating hand Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created: much less man, Or aught that might his happy state secure, Secure from outward force; within himself The danger lies, yet lies within his power: Against his will, he can receive no harm...
Page 429 - So shall the World go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning, till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked...
Page 283 - Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and...
Page 100 - Man-like, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd And in her looks ; which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her air inspir'd The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Page 32 - Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky. So high as...
Page 49 - As from his lair, the wild beast, where he wons In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den ; Among the trees in pairs they rose, they...
Page 200 - Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin...
Page 434 - I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go, Is to stay here; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under Heav'n, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.