The Works of the British Poets: With Lives of the Authors, Volumen8Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh Mitchell, Ames, and White, 1819 |
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... of in such state As them preserves , and thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize , Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease ; And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON .
... of in such state As them preserves , and thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize , Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease ; And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON .
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... delight , When angel with archangel copes in fight ! When great Messiah's outspread banner shines , How does the chariot rattle in his lines ! What sound of brazen wheels , with thunder , scare And stun the reader with the din of war ...
... delight , When angel with archangel copes in fight ! When great Messiah's outspread banner shines , How does the chariot rattle in his lines ! What sound of brazen wheels , with thunder , scare And stun the reader with the din of war ...
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... delight ; which consists only in apt numbers , fit quantity of syllables , and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another , not in the jingling sound of like endings ; a fault avoided by the learned ancients , both in ...
... delight ; which consists only in apt numbers , fit quantity of syllables , and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another , not in the jingling sound of like endings ; a fault avoided by the learned ancients , both in ...
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... delight ; which consists only in apt numbers , fit quantity of syllables , and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into ano- ther , not in the jingling sound of like endings ; a fault avoided by the learned ancients , both in ...
... delight ; which consists only in apt numbers , fit quantity of syllables , and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into ano- ther , not in the jingling sound of like endings ; a fault avoided by the learned ancients , both in ...
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... Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet ...
... Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Angel appear'd arm'd arms aught beast Beelzebub behold bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherub Cherubim Chor cloud creatures Dagon dark death deeds deep delight didst divine dreadful dwell Earth eternal evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith fall'n Father fear fierce fire fix'd flaming fruit Gath glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell hill honour join'd King know'st labour lest light live lords mankind Manoah Messiah nigh night o'er ordain'd pain PARADISE LOST pass'd peace Philistines pleas'd praise rais'd reign return'd round Sams Samson sapience Satan seat seem'd Seraph Serpent shalt sight soon sov'ran spake Spirits stood strength sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thought throne thunder thyself tree turn'd vex'd whence wings wonder Zephon
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Página 43 - and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat, by merit rais'd To that bad eminence : and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high ; insatiate to pursue Vain war with Heaven ; and, by
Página 141 - such prompt eloquence Flow'd from their lips, in prose or numerous verse, More tuneable than needed lute or harp To add more sweetness; and they thus began : " These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! Thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; Thyself how wondrous then
Página 120 - Incredible how swift, had thither roll'd Diurnal, or this less volubil earth, By shorter flight to the' east, had left him there Arraying with reflected purple' and gold The clouds that on his western throne attend. Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence
Página 121 - for beast and bird, 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 pleas'd: now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon,
Página 154 - corporal forms, As may express them best; though what if Earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought ? " As yet this world was not, and Chaos wild Reign'd where these Heavens now roll, where Earth Upon her centre
Página 35 - Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the' Arch-angel: but his face Deep sears of thunder
Página 17 - all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse ! that on the secret top Of Oreh, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the
Página 4 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages bom, Greece, Italy, and England, did adorn : The First in loftiness of thought surpassed ; The Next, in majesty ; in both the LAST. The force of Nature could no farther go: To make a third, she joined the former two.
Página 35 - cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge: cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion, to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather, (Far other once beheld in bliss,) condemu'd For ever now to have their lot in pain; Millions of Spirits for his fault amerc'd of
Página 355 - with joy and wonder, thus replied : " O Goodness infinite, Goodness immense! That all this good of evil shall produce, And evil turn to good ; more wonderful Than that which by creation first brought forth Light out of darkness ! Full of doubt I stand, Whether 1 should repent me now of sin By me done, and