English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Հատոր 21870 |
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... was done 635 From the beginning , that posterity Inform'd by thee might know ; if else thou seek'st Aught , not surpassing human measure , say . ' 640 BOOK VIII . THE ARGUMENT . Adam enquires concerning celestial 20 LAST POEMS , 1665-1671 .
... was done 635 From the beginning , that posterity Inform'd by thee might know ; if else thou seek'st Aught , not surpassing human measure , say . ' 640 BOOK VIII . THE ARGUMENT . Adam enquires concerning celestial 20 LAST POEMS , 1665-1671 .
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... Seek them with wandring thoughts , and notions vain . But apt the mind or fancy is to rove Uncheckt , and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd , or by experience taught , she learn , 190 That not to know at large of things remote From ...
... Seek them with wandring thoughts , and notions vain . But apt the mind or fancy is to rove Uncheckt , and of her roving is no end ; Till warn'd , or by experience taught , she learn , 190 That not to know at large of things remote From ...
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... seek , fit to participate 390 All rational delight , wherein the brute Cannot be human consort ; they rejoice Each with their kind , lion with lioness ; So fitly them in pairs thou hast combin'd ; Much less can bird with beast , or fish ...
... seek , fit to participate 390 All rational delight , wherein the brute Cannot be human consort ; they rejoice Each with their kind , lion with lioness ; So fitly them in pairs thou hast combin'd ; Much less can bird with beast , or fish ...
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... seek'st not Social communication ; yet so pleas'd , Canst raise thy creature to what height thou wilt Of union or communion , deifi'd ; 430 I by conversing cannot these erect From prone , nor in their ways complacence find . " Thus I ...
... seek'st not Social communication ; yet so pleas'd , Canst raise thy creature to what height thou wilt Of union or communion , deifi'd ; 430 I by conversing cannot these erect From prone , nor in their ways complacence find . " Thus I ...
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... seek to cover their nakedness ; then fall to variance and accusation of one another . No more of talk where God or angel guest With Man , as with his friend , familiar us'd To sit indulgent , and with him partake Rural repast ...
... seek to cover their nakedness ; then fall to variance and accusation of one another . No more of talk where God or angel guest With Man , as with his friend , familiar us'd To sit indulgent , and with him partake Rural repast ...
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Adam Aeneid angel aught Balliol College beast behold call'd Chorus Cicero cloth cloud College Comus creatures Dagon dark death deeds delight divine dwell Earth Edition enemies Euripides evil eyes Faery Queene fair faith Father fcap fear fruit Georgics giv'n glory hand Harapha hath heard heart Heav'n Heav'nly Hell honour Horace Iliad Keightley king labour lest light live Lord Manoa Metamorphoses Milton mind nigh night Odes Oriel College Ovid Oxford Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage Psalm reign repli'd return'd round Samson Samson Agonistes Satan Saviour seat seem'd sense serpent Shakespeare shalt shame sight Son of God soon Sophocles spake Spenser spirits stood strength sweet taste Tempter thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tree turn'd viii virtue voice whence words
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Էջ 60 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Էջ 4 - 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 drowned Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Էջ 207 - Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease, • Ease to the body some, none to the mind From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging, and present Times past, what once I was, and what am now.
Էջ 318 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Էջ 210 - And buried ; but, O yet more miserable ! Myself my sepulchre, a moving grave ; Buried, yet not exempt, By privilege of death and burial, From worst of other evils, pains, and wrongs ; But made hereby obnoxious more To all the miseries of life, Life in captivity Among inhuman foes.
Էջ 16 - But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends, thither with heart, and voice, and eyes Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God supreme, who made him chief •Of all his works : therefore the omnipotent Eternal Father, for where is not he Present?
Էջ 207 - A LITTLE onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade. There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily...
Էջ 208 - Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves, Himself in bonds under Philistian yoke. Yet stay, let me not rashly call in doubt Divine prediction...
Էջ 35 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Էջ 142 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...