Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books, Volumen1J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper; and for S. Birt, C. Hitch, J. Hodges [and seven others in London], 1750 |
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... against the corruptions of the clergy , and feemeth to have first discovered his acrimony against Archbishop Laud , and to have threaten'd him with the lofs of his head , which afterwards happened to him thro ' the fury of his enemies ...
... against the corruptions of the clergy , and feemeth to have first discovered his acrimony against Archbishop Laud , and to have threaten'd him with the lofs of his head , which afterwards happened to him thro ' the fury of his enemies ...
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... against him , in cafe he fhould return thither , by reafon of the great free- dom which he had ufed in all his difcourfes of re- ligion . For he had by no means obferved the rule , recommended to him by Sir Henry Wotton , of keeping his ...
... against him , in cafe he fhould return thither , by reafon of the great free- dom which he had ufed in all his difcourfes of re- ligion . For he had by no means obferved the rule , recommended to him by Sir Henry Wotton , of keeping his ...
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... against the bishops , when he joined loudly in the cry , to help the puritan minifters , ( as he says himself in his fecond Defenfe ) they being inferior to the bishops in learning and eloquence ; and pub- lished his two books , Of ...
... against the bishops , when he joined loudly in the cry , to help the puritan minifters , ( as he says himself in his fecond Defenfe ) they being inferior to the bishops in learning and eloquence ; and pub- lished his two books , Of ...
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... against Prelaty , in two books . And Bishop Hall having published a Defenfe of the Humble Re- monftrance , he wrote Animadverfions upon it . All thefe treatifes he published within the course of one year , 1641 , which fhow how very ...
... against Prelaty , in two books . And Bishop Hall having published a Defenfe of the Humble Re- monftrance , he wrote Animadverfions upon it . All thefe treatifes he published within the course of one year , 1641 , which fhow how very ...
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... against it , and daily folicited the Parlament to pafs fome cenfure upon it ; and at laft one of them , in a fermon preached before the Lords and Commons on a day of humiliation in Auguft 1644 , roundly told them , that there was a book ...
... against it , and daily folicited the Parlament to pafs fome cenfure upon it ; and at laft one of them , in a fermon preached before the Lords and Commons on a day of humiliation in Auguft 1644 , roundly told them , that there was a book ...
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Página 26 - Here we may reign secure ; and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.
Página 242 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 3 - Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos : or, if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Página 474 - And full of wrath bent on his enemies. At once the four spread out their starry wings, With dreadful shade contiguous, and the orbs Of his fierce chariot roll'd, as with the sound Of torrent floods, or of a numerous host. He on his impious foes right onward drove, Gloomy as night ; under his burning wheels The steadfast empyrean shook throughout, All but the throne itself of God.
Página 257 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain...
Página 176 - Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 180 - 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.
Página 338 - 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.
Página 179 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 153 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.