The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author by S. Johnson, Volumes 3-41807 |
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... shameful death their due reward . But if there be in glory aught of good , It may by means far different be attain'd Without ambition , war , or violence ; By deeds of peace , by wisdom eminent , By patience , temperance ; I mention ...
... shameful death their due reward . But if there be in glory aught of good , It may by means far different be attain'd Without ambition , war , or violence ; By deeds of peace , by wisdom eminent , By patience , temperance ; I mention ...
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... shame ? Who for so many benefits receiv'd Turn'd recreant to God , ingrate and false , And so of all true good himself despoil'd . Yet sacrilegious , to himself would take That which to God alone of right belongs ; Yet so much bounty is ...
... shame ? Who for so many benefits receiv'd Turn'd recreant to God , ingrate and false , And so of all true good himself despoil'd . Yet sacrilegious , to himself would take That which to God alone of right belongs ; Yet so much bounty is ...
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... shame the more ; Or as a swarm of flies in vintage time , About the wine - press where sweet must is pour'd , Beat ... shameful silence brought , Yet gives not o'er though desp'rate of success , 20 And his vain importunity pursues . He ...
... shame the more ; Or as a swarm of flies in vintage time , About the wine - press where sweet must is pour'd , Beat ... shameful silence brought , Yet gives not o'er though desp'rate of success , 20 And his vain importunity pursues . He ...
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... shame , As offer them to me the Son of God , To me my own , on such abhorred pact , That I fall down and worship thee as God ? Get thee behind me ; plain thou now appear'st That evil one , Satan for ever damn'd . 190 To whom the Fiend ...
... shame , As offer them to me the Son of God , To me my own , on such abhorred pact , That I fall down and worship thee as God ? Get thee behind me ; plain thou now appear'st That evil one , Satan for ever damn'd . 190 To whom the Fiend ...
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... shame not to prefer , As fearing God nor man , contemning all Wealth , pleasure , pain or torment , death and life , Which when he lists , he leaves , or boasts he can , For all his tedious talk is but vain boast , Or subtle shifts ...
... shame not to prefer , As fearing God nor man , contemning all Wealth , pleasure , pain or torment , death and life , Which when he lists , he leaves , or boasts he can , For all his tedious talk is but vain boast , Or subtle shifts ...
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Amor angels Arethuse arms Atque behold bright cataphracts Chebar CHOR clouds Comus Dagon dark death didst divine dost doth dread earth enemies eyes fair fame father fear feast foes glorious glory gods Hęc hand hath head hear heard Heav'n heav'nly holy honour ipse Israel Jehovah Jove kings Lady light live Locrine Lord loud Lycidas Manoah mihi MILTON morning mortal Muse never night numbers numina nymph o'er once P. L. iv P. L. vii P. L. x P. L. xi PARADISE REGAIN'D peace Philistines praise Psalm quę quid reply'd round Samson Samson Agonistes shades shalt shame Shepherd sing solemn Son of God song sorrow soul spirits strength sweet thee thence thine things thou thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tibi virgin virtue wild wilt winds wings words
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Page 192 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 186 - Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, Whom lovely Venus at a birth With two sister Graces more To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 190 - And ever against eating cares Lap me in soft Lydian airs Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 146 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 197 - And may at last my weary age Find out the peaceful hermitage, The hairy gown and mossy cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every star that heaven doth shew, And every herb that sips the dew ; Till old experience do attain To something like prophetic strain.
Page 188 - Where the great sun begins his state, Rob'd in flames, and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale, Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 35 - Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail bounteous May that dost inspire Mirth and youth, and warm desire; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish...
Page 30 - FLY, envious Time, till thou run out thy race ; Call on the lazy leaden-stepping hours, Whose speed is but the heavy plummet's pace ; And glut thyself with what thy womb devours, Which is no more than what is false and vain, And merely mortal dross ; So little is our loss, So little is thy gain.