| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...thyself convinc'd. Yet, should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my wrapt spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence, That...high, Were shatter'd into heaps o'er thy false head. Lady to Comus. — Milton. DCCXXXVII. A man, who cannot mind his own business, is not to be trusted... | |
| Thomas Curtis - Aeronautics - 1829 - 878 pages
...the condition produced sonic earnestness and vehemenry of expression more than ordinary. Clarendon. This pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits To such...flame of sacred vehemence, That dumb things would be moved to sympathize. Milton. I find In all things else delight indeed ; but such As, used or not, works... | |
| Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...for his magician* to work feats, than to humble himself under God for the removal of this plague. Id. And the brute earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magick structures, reared so high, Were shattered into heaps. Milton. An old magician, that did keep... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 354 pages
...her dazzling fence, Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinc'd ; Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence, 795 That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize, And the brute earth would lend her nerves, and shake,... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 432 pages
...her dazzling fence; Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinc'd: Yet, should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence, 795 That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize, And the brute earth would lend her nerves, and shake,... | |
| John Milton - 1834 - 498 pages
...her dazzling fence ; Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinc'd ; Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence, 795 That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize, And the brute earth would lend her nerves, and shake,... | |
| John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...her dazzling fence ; Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinc'd ; Yet should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence, 795 That dumb things would be mov'd to sympathize, And the brute earth would lend her nerves, and shake,... | |
| English poetry - 1840 - 372 pages
...cause would kindle my rapt spirits To such a flame of sacred vehemence, That dumb things would be moved to sympathize, And the brute Earth would lend her...Till all thy magic structures, rear'd so high, Were shattered into heaps o'er thy false head. Com. She fables not ; I feel that I do fear Her words set... | |
| James Stamford Caldwell - Literature and morals - 1843 - 372 pages
...virtue and to fame. 3 Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinced ; Yet, should I try, the uncontrolled worth Of this pure cause would kindle my rapt spirits...flame of sacred vehemence, That dumb things would be moved to sympathize, And the brute earth would lend her nerves and shake. 4 I have no power to love... | |
| John Milton - 1843 - 364 pages
...dazzling fence ; Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinced : Yet, should I try, the uncontrolled worth To such a flame of sacred vehemence, That dumb things would be moved to sympathize, And the brute earth would lend her nerves, and shake, Till all thy magic structures,... | |
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