Paradise Regained: Samson Agonistes, Comus and ArcadesJ. Sharpe, 1823 - 377 pages |
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... least if so we can , and by the head Broken be not intended all our power To be infringed , our freedom and our being , In this fair empire won of earth and air ) , For this ill news I bring , the Woman's Seed , Destined to this , is ...
... least if so we can , and by the head Broken be not intended all our power To be infringed , our freedom and our being , In this fair empire won of earth and air ) , For this ill news I bring , the Woman's Seed , Destined to this , is ...
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... least to try , and teach the erring soul , Not wilfully misdoing , but unware Misled ; the stubborn only to subdue . These growing thoughts my mother soon perceiving , By words at times cast forth , inly rejoiced , And said to me apart ...
... least to try , and teach the erring soul , Not wilfully misdoing , but unware Misled ; the stubborn only to subdue . These growing thoughts my mother soon perceiving , By words at times cast forth , inly rejoiced , And said to me apart ...
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... least contemplate and admire What I see excellent in good , or fair , Or virtuous ; I should so have lost all sense : What can be then less in me than desire To see thee and approach thee , whom I know Declared the Son of God , to hear ...
... least contemplate and admire What I see excellent in good , or fair , Or virtuous ; I should so have lost all sense : What can be then less in me than desire To see thee and approach thee , whom I know Declared the Son of God , to hear ...
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... least in vain , for they shall find thee mute . God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will , And sends his Spirit of truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts , an inward oracle To all truth requisite for ...
... least in vain , for they shall find thee mute . God hath now sent his living oracle Into the world to teach his final will , And sends his Spirit of truth henceforth to dwell In pious hearts , an inward oracle To all truth requisite for ...
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... least , though I despair to attain . Thy Father , who is holy , wise , and pure , Suffers the hypocrite or atheous priest To tread his sacred courts , and minister About his altar , handling holy things , Praying or vowing ; and ...
... least , though I despair to attain . Thy Father , who is holy , wise , and pure , Suffers the hypocrite or atheous priest To tread his sacred courts , and minister About his altar , handling holy things , Praying or vowing ; and ...
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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.