Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, to which is Added, the Force of ReligionPhillips & Sampson, 1848 |
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... Lorenzo Fortune makes her court to thee ; Thy fond heart dances while the siren sings . Dear is thy welfare ! think me not unkind , I would not damp , but to secure thy joys . Think not that fear is sacred to the storm ; Stand on thy ...
... Lorenzo Fortune makes her court to thee ; Thy fond heart dances while the siren sings . Dear is thy welfare ! think me not unkind , I would not damp , but to secure thy joys . Think not that fear is sacred to the storm ; Stand on thy ...
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... Lorenzo wisdom into folly turns Oft , the first instant ; its idea fair To labouring thought is born . How dim our eye ! The present moment terminates our sight ; 365 Clouds , thick as those on Doomsday , drown the next ; We penetrate ...
... Lorenzo wisdom into folly turns Oft , the first instant ; its idea fair To labouring thought is born . How dim our eye ! The present moment terminates our sight ; 365 Clouds , thick as those on Doomsday , drown the next ; We penetrate ...
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... Lorenzo ! a slow , sudden death : How dreadful that deliberate surprise ! Be wise to - day ; ' tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on , till wisdom is push a out of life . Procrastination is the thief ...
... Lorenzo ! a slow , sudden death : How dreadful that deliberate surprise ! Be wise to - day ; ' tis madness to defer : Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on , till wisdom is push a out of life . Procrastination is the thief ...
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... Lorenzo let me turn my thoughts on thee ; And thine on themes may profit ; profit there Where most thy need . Themes , too , the genuino growth Of dear Philander's dust . He thus , though dead , 15 May still befriend . - What themes ...
... Lorenzo let me turn my thoughts on thee ; And thine on themes may profit ; profit there Where most thy need . Themes , too , the genuino growth Of dear Philander's dust . He thus , though dead , 15 May still befriend . - What themes ...
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... Lorenzo ? not 45 For Esculapian , but for moral aid . Thou think'st it folly to be wise too soon . Youth is not rich in time ; it may be poor : Part with it as with money , sparing ; pay No moment , but in purchase of its worth ; 50 And ...
... Lorenzo ? not 45 For Esculapian , but for moral aid . Thou think'st it folly to be wise too soon . Youth is not rich in time ; it may be poor : Part with it as with money , sparing ; pay No moment , but in purchase of its worth ; 50 And ...
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Adam adore ambition ambrosial Angels Archangel art thou behold beneath bless'd bliss breast call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud dark days of Heaven death deep Deity delight divine dread dust dwell earth eternal ethereal evil fair Fair Angel fate Father fear fire flame fruit glorious glory Godhead Gods guilt happy hast hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell hope hour human immortal know'st labour light live Lorenzo man's mankind mind mortal Nature Nature's night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace pleasure praise pride proud rapture Reason reign return'd rise round sapience Satan scape scene seem'd Seraph shade shines sight skies smile song soon soul spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thought throne thyself tree truth turn'd vex'd virtue whence wing wisdom wise wonder
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Page 92 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 55 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 290 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 82 - Imbrown'd the noontide bowers : Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. Others whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste...
Page 6 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire ; that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...
Page 25 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 57 - He and his faithless progeny. Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page 9 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 105 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 50 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.