The Glasse of Time: In the First AgeBernard Alsop, 1885 - 175 páginas |
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Página ix
... once freed him from all control , and placed him in possession of an independent for- tune , he was enabled to exchange the study of law for higher and graver pursuits more conge- nial to his tastes . No doubt he had reached a ...
... once freed him from all control , and placed him in possession of an independent for- tune , he was enabled to exchange the study of law for higher and graver pursuits more conge- nial to his tastes . No doubt he had reached a ...
Página xiv
... once but rest in peace ! Then would she sing divinely - never cease , - But work out truth within her holy rhymes Gliding along , descending to our times ; And dear Urania , sovereign of my verse , Should hear the glory of this world ...
... once but rest in peace ! Then would she sing divinely - never cease , - But work out truth within her holy rhymes Gliding along , descending to our times ; And dear Urania , sovereign of my verse , Should hear the glory of this world ...
Página xvi
... once to spy man's secret faults , And from her den in dark oblivion pent . The bowels of her mother earth had sent , To come aloft into the open air , With her foul breath , infectious , poisoned hair , And rags most base , as late ...
... once to spy man's secret faults , And from her den in dark oblivion pent . The bowels of her mother earth had sent , To come aloft into the open air , With her foul breath , infectious , poisoned hair , And rags most base , as late ...
Página xxi
... once of thine eternal law , By fresh allurement of that snaky wight , I viewed the same , and so of it did bite , The which , when as that I the deed had done Away he crawls , and leaves me all alone , - Mine eyes i ' th ' instant ...
... once of thine eternal law , By fresh allurement of that snaky wight , I viewed the same , and so of it did bite , The which , when as that I the deed had done Away he crawls , and leaves me all alone , - Mine eyes i ' th ' instant ...
Página xxiii
... once can enter ever . Thus ends the version of the Paradise Lost . The remainder of the book is taken up with a description of the barriers to a return , - —an elab orate personification of the attributes of Justice , Mercy ...
... once can enter ever . Thus ends the version of the Paradise Lost . The remainder of the book is taken up with a description of the barriers to a return , - —an elab orate personification of the attributes of Justice , Mercy ...
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Términos y frases comunes
accurst Adam and Eve admired amongst angels Apostacie art thou aspiring towers beast behold birth blood bloud blurre born brest brothers blood brought Caine canst cast chaste Christ Church clouds cursed curst damn'd damned dayes dear dearest delight descended Devil didst divine doth Earth envious Envy eternal Eve and Adam eyes fall fame farre father fearful fell foes foul fram'd fruit glorious glory Gods goodly grace ground Habels hand hast thou hateful hath heart heavenly heavens heere Hell holy judgement Justice Lamech land Lincoln's Inn liv'd live lofty Lord lurke mercy mind monster mount Muse never nurst o'er Paradise Paradise Lost peace plast Prince race rest Sabaoth sacred seed shalt shew sight sins soul staind stand Staple Inne stept sweet thee thine THOMAS PEYTON thou hast thought thy body thy face tree truth unto Urania vile walls Whilst woful wonder word
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Página xv - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel angels, by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...
Página xxiv - To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen and evil tongues ; In darkness, and with dangers compassed round And solitude ; yet not alone while thou £ Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when morn Purples the east : still govern thou my song, Urania, and fit audience find, though few...
Página xvii - Thus was this place, A happy rural seat of various view; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm, Others whose fruit burnished with golden rind Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste.
Página xiii - Sing Heav'nly 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 Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Página xiv - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Página xviii - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página xxiv - Standing on earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fall'n on evil days, On evil days though fall'n, and evil tongues...
Página xvi - The one seemed woman to the waist, and fair, But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast, a serpent armed With mortal sting.
Página xxiv - Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing. The meaning, not the name, I call : for thou Nor of the Muses nine, nor on the top Of old Olympus dwell'st ; but...
Página xviii - For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime...