Paradise regain'd, a poem. To which is added Samson agonistes; and Poems upon several occasions, with a Tractate of education1747 |
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... should much commend the Tragical part , if the Lyrical did not ravish me with a cer- tain Dorique delicacy in your Songs and Odes , whereunto I must plainly confefs . to have feen yet nothing parallel in our Language : Ipfa mollities ...
... should much commend the Tragical part , if the Lyrical did not ravish me with a cer- tain Dorique delicacy in your Songs and Odes , whereunto I must plainly confefs . to have feen yet nothing parallel in our Language : Ipfa mollities ...
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... should be loth To meet the rudenefs , and fwill'd infolence Of fuch late Waffailers ; yet O where else Shall I inform my unacquainted feet In the blind mazes of this tangl'd Wood ? My Brothers when they faw me wearied out With this long ...
... should be loth To meet the rudenefs , and fwill'd infolence Of fuch late Waffailers ; yet O where else Shall I inform my unacquainted feet In the blind mazes of this tangl'd Wood ? My Brothers when they faw me wearied out With this long ...
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... should'ft thou , but for fome felonious end , In thy dark lanthorn thus close up the Stars , That Nature hung in Heav'n , and fill'd their Lamps . With everlasting oil , to give due light To the mif - led and lonely Traveller ? This is ...
... should'ft thou , but for fome felonious end , In thy dark lanthorn thus close up the Stars , That Nature hung in Heav'n , and fill'd their Lamps . With everlasting oil , to give due light To the mif - led and lonely Traveller ? This is ...
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... should fear to change it . Eye me , bleft Providence , and square my trial To my proportion'd strength . Shepherd , lead on .-- Enter the two Brothers . Eld . Bro . Unmuffle , ye faint Stars ; and thou fäir Moon , That wont'ft to love ...
... should fear to change it . Eye me , bleft Providence , and square my trial To my proportion'd strength . Shepherd , lead on .-- Enter the two Brothers . Eld . Bro . Unmuffle , ye faint Stars ; and thou fäir Moon , That wont'ft to love ...
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... . Lift , lift ; I Some far - off hollow break the filent Air . r . Bro . Methought fo too ; what should it be ? Eld . Bro . For certain Either Either fome one like us night - founder'd here , POEMS on feveral Occafions . 189.
... . Lift , lift ; I Some far - off hollow break the filent Air . r . Bro . Methought fo too ; what should it be ? Eld . Bro . For certain Either Either fome one like us night - founder'd here , POEMS on feveral Occafions . 189.
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