Paradise Regained: Samson Agonistes, Comus and ArcadesJ. Sharpe, 1823 - 377 pages |
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... gave no small cause : But his growth now to youth's full flower , displaying All virtue , grace , and wisdom to achieve Things highest , greatest , multiplies my fear . Before him a great Prophet , to proclaim His coming , is sent ...
... gave no small cause : But his growth now to youth's full flower , displaying All virtue , grace , and wisdom to achieve Things highest , greatest , multiplies my fear . Before him a great Prophet , to proclaim His coming , is sent ...
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... Gave up into my hands Uzzean Job To prove him and illustrate his high worth ; And , when to all his Angels he proposed To draw the proud king Ahab into fraud That he might fall in Ramoth , they demurring , I undertook that office , and ...
... Gave up into my hands Uzzean Job To prove him and illustrate his high worth ; And , when to all his Angels he proposed To draw the proud king Ahab into fraud That he might fall in Ramoth , they demurring , I undertook that office , and ...
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... gave them breath , but higher sung , Blind Melesigenes , thence Homer call'd , Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own : Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic , teachers best Of moral prudence , with ...
... gave them breath , but higher sung , Blind Melesigenes , thence Homer call'd , Whose poem Phoebus challenged for his own : Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In Chorus or Iambic , teachers best Of moral prudence , with ...
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... gave me strength , to show withal How slight the gift was , hung it in my hair . But peace , I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation , which herein Haply had ends above my reach to know : Suffices that to me strength is ...
... gave me strength , to show withal How slight the gift was , hung it in my hair . But peace , I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation , which herein Haply had ends above my reach to know : Suffices that to me strength is ...
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... Gave up my fort of silence to a woman . › Cho . In seeking just occasion to provoke The Philistine , thy country's enemy , Thou never wast remiss , I bear thee witness : Yet Israël still serves with all his sons . Sam . That fault I ...
... Gave up my fort of silence to a woman . › Cho . In seeking just occasion to provoke The Philistine , thy country's enemy , Thou never wast remiss , I bear thee witness : Yet Israël still serves with all his sons . Sam . That fault I ...
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Angels arms aught behold breast brought call'd canst captive charms Comus Ctesiphon Dagon dark David's throne death deeds delight deliverance desert divine dread durst earth enemies eyes fair fame fear feast foes foretold friends Gath glory Gods hand hath head hear heard Heaven highth holy honour hope hunger Israel Jephtha Jesus JOHN SHARPE join'd king kingdom Lady Locrine Lord lost Manoah mayst mind mortal Nazarite never nigh night numbers Nymphs o'er offer'd PARADISE REGAINED Parthian Philistines praise Prophet reign replied return'd RICHARD WESTALL river Jordan Sabrina fair Samson SAMSON AGONISTES Satan Saviour seek shades shame Shepherd shouldst snares Son of God song soon spake Spirit stood strength sung sweet Tempter thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thou shalt thought thy father thyself Timna vex'd virgin virtue wild wilderness wilt wouldst
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Page 3 - Yet some there be that, by due steps, aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity. To such my errand is...
Page 6 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole ; Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
Page 16 - Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
Page 4 - Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep...
Page 16 - He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day ; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
Page 30 - Impostor ! do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance. She, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare Temperance.
Page 34 - By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look, And the Carpathian wizard's hook ; By scaly Triton's winding shell, And old soothsaying Glaucus' spell ; By Leucothea's lovely hands, And her son that rules the strands ; By Thetis...
Page 10 - Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars That Nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps With everlasting oil to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller?
Page 2 - Think not but that I know these things, or think I know them not ; not therefore am I short Of knowing what I ought : he, who receives Light from above, from the Fountain of Light, No other doctrine needs, though granted true ; 290 But these are false, or little else but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.
Page 10 - What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.