Paradise Regain'd: A Poem. In Four Books. To which is Added Samson Agonistes. And Poems Upon Several Occasions. Compos'd at Several TimesJacob Tonson, 1707 - 457 pages |
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Page 89
... seek To understand my Adverfary , who And what he is ; his wifdom , pow'r , ' intent , By parl , or compofition , truce , or league To win him , or win from him what I can . And opportunity I here have had To try thee , fift thee , and ...
... seek To understand my Adverfary , who And what he is ; his wifdom , pow'r , ' intent , By parl , or compofition , truce , or league To win him , or win from him what I can . And opportunity I here have had To try thee , fift thee , and ...
Page 100
... seek to comfort him what they can ; then by his old Father Manoa , who endeavours the like , and withal tells him his purpose to procure his liberty by ranfom ; and lastly , that this Feaft was proclaim'd by the Philiftins as a day of ...
... seek to comfort him what they can ; then by his old Father Manoa , who endeavours the like , and withal tells him his purpose to procure his liberty by ranfom ; and lastly , that this Feaft was proclaim'd by the Philiftins as a day of ...
Page 121
... seek most repofe and reft , I yielded , and unlock'd her all my heart , Who with a grain of manhood well refolv'd Might easily have shook off all her snarès : But foul effeminacy held me yok'd Her bond - flave ; O indignity , O blot To ...
... seek most repofe and reft , I yielded , and unlock'd her all my heart , Who with a grain of manhood well refolv'd Might easily have shook off all her snarès : But foul effeminacy held me yok'd Her bond - flave ; O indignity , O blot To ...
Page 126
... seek it ? when in strength All mortals I excell'd , and great in hopes t With youthful courage and magnanimous thoughts Of birth from Heav'n foretold and high exploits , Full of divine instinct , after fome proof Of Acts indeed heroick ...
... seek it ? when in strength All mortals I excell'd , and great in hopes t With youthful courage and magnanimous thoughts Of birth from Heav'n foretold and high exploits , Full of divine instinct , after fome proof Of Acts indeed heroick ...
Page 139
... seeking , and much rather Confess it feign'd , weakness is thy excuse , And I believe it , weakness to refift Philiftian gold : if weakness may excufe , What Murtherer , what Traitor , Paricide , Incestuous , Sacrilegious , but may ...
... seeking , and much rather Confess it feign'd , weakness is thy excuse , And I believe it , weakness to refift Philiftian gold : if weakness may excufe , What Murtherer , what Traitor , Paricide , Incestuous , Sacrilegious , but may ...
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Page 194 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequer'd shade...
Page 195 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 189 - With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love. There entertain him all the saints above In solemn troops, and sweet societies That sing, and singing in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes. Now, Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Page 176 - 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 196 - 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 156 - Is hate, not help to me, it may with mine Draw their own ruin who attempt the deed.
Page 259 - THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring...
Page 105 - Why am I thus bereav'd thy prime decree ? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 48 - Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other...
Page 269 - The Lars and Lemures moan with midnight plaint ; In urns and altars round A drear and dying sound Affrights the Flamens at their service quaint ; And the chill marble seems to sweat, While each peculiar Power foregoes his wonted seat.