The Glasse of Time: In the First AgeBernard Alsop, 1885 - 175 páginas |
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Página xii
... peace and safety , and perhaps , for him , that period never came . any rate this is all that has come down to us , and it is enough , since it contains his thought up- on Milton's great topic , in which connection we find its chief ...
... peace and safety , and perhaps , for him , that period never came . any rate this is all that has come down to us , and it is enough , since it contains his thought up- on Milton's great topic , in which connection we find its chief ...
Página xiv
... 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 rehearse ...
... 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 rehearse ...
Página xxv
... peace to walk up Sion's hill , That in thy house where all thy saints do meet My soul might sing , and offer odours sweet . Instead of peace , which I desire in haste Thou sent'st me down a lovely virgin chaste Noble Urania , soberly ...
... peace to walk up Sion's hill , That in thy house where all thy saints do meet My soul might sing , and offer odours sweet . Instead of peace , which I desire in haste Thou sent'st me down a lovely virgin chaste Noble Urania , soberly ...
Página xxxiii
... peace to end what I begin , And thy dear browes shall heavens rich garland win . Oh I am plung'd on every side with foes , Which seeke my ruin , to undo me quite , To waste my state , more then it comes it goes . Let me have justice ...
... peace to end what I begin , And thy dear browes shall heavens rich garland win . Oh I am plung'd on every side with foes , Which seeke my ruin , to undo me quite , To waste my state , more then it comes it goes . Let me have justice ...
Página xxxvi
... Peace , or that which is mine owne , And thy just worth shall o'er the world be blowne . Your Lordships in all humblenesse , THOMAS PEYTON . TO THE READER . The Title described . Unto the Wise , Religious , Learned , Grave , Judicious ...
... Peace , or that which is mine owne , And thy just worth shall o'er the world be blowne . Your Lordships in all humblenesse , THOMAS PEYTON . TO THE READER . The Title described . Unto the Wise , Religious , Learned , Grave , Judicious ...
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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 xix - 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 xvi - Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly Thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer 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 Dovelike satst brooding on the vast abyss...
Página xviii - Before the gates there sat On either side a formidable Shape. 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 xv - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, 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...
Página xvi - 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 xx - For softness she and sweet attractive grace; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad...
Página xx - Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Página xxvi - 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 heavenly born, Before the hills appear'd or fountain flow'd, Thou with eternal Wisdom didst converse, Wisdom thy sister, and with her didst play In presence of the Almighty Father, pleased With thy celestial song.
Página xvii - 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 xxxii - It is interesting to notice how some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage, and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.