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... Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge , and sends out his seraphim , with the hallowed fire of his altar , to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases : 2 to this must be added indus- trious and select reading ...
... Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge , and sends out his seraphim , with the hallowed fire of his altar , to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases : 2 to this must be added indus- trious and select reading ...
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... spirits endueth . Yet , be it less or more , or soon or slow , - It shall be still in strictest measure even To that ... spirit . Often carried xii INTRODUCTION.
... spirits endueth . Yet , be it less or more , or soon or slow , - It shall be still in strictest measure even To that ... spirit . Often carried xii INTRODUCTION.
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John Milton Edward Everett Hale. A single passage will indicate their spirit . Often carried away by excess of zeal , we may be sure that at bottom Mil- ton diverted his time and energy from poetry and study , because he saw in other ...
John Milton Edward Everett Hale. A single passage will indicate their spirit . Often carried away by excess of zeal , we may be sure that at bottom Mil- ton diverted his time and energy from poetry and study , because he saw in other ...
Page xxi
... Spirit of the place ( for the masque was in compliment to a noble Earl ) asserts her power , Vice is discomfited , the Lady is released from temp- tation , and the play ends . Couched in the form of a com- pliment as it is , we see here ...
... Spirit of the place ( for the masque was in compliment to a noble Earl ) asserts her power , Vice is discomfited , the Lady is released from temp- tation , and the play ends . Couched in the form of a com- pliment as it is , we see here ...
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... spirit became more and more evil . We have first the fine lines in Book i .: " He above the rest In shape and gesture ... spirits it may be , and Satan gives haughtily the well - known answer : ' Not to know 1 " Six wings he wore , to ...
... spirit became more and more evil . We have first the fine lines in Book i .: " He above the rest In shape and gesture ... spirits it may be , and Satan gives haughtily the well - known answer : ' Not to know 1 " Six wings he wore , to ...
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Page xxxii - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 73 - 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.
Page 40 - 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 26 - For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
Page 17 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page xxx - Six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine: the pair that clad Each shoulder broad came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament; the middle pair Girt like a starry zone his waist, and round Skirted his loins and thighs with downy gold And colours dipt in heaven ; the third his feet Shadowed from either heel with feathered mail, Sky-tinctured grain.
Page 63 - Far off the flying Fiend. At last appear Hell bounds high reaching to the horrid roof, And thrice threefold the gates; three folds were brass, Three iron, three of adamantine rock, Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire, Yet unconsumed.
Page 82 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or Sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song; but chief Thee, Sion, and the Flowery brooks beneath That wash thy hallowed feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Page xiv - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quench'd their orbs, Or dim suffusion veil'd.
Page 15 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...