Paradise Regained: Samson Agonistes, Comus and Arcades |
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... and seats of men , From cold Septentrion blasts ; thence in the midst Divided by a river , of whose banks On each side an imperial city stood , With towers and temples proudly elevate On seven small hills , with palaces adorn'd ...
... and seats of men , From cold Septentrion blasts ; thence in the midst Divided by a river , of whose banks On each side an imperial city stood , With towers and temples proudly elevate On seven small hills , with palaces adorn'd ...
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acts Angels arms bear begin behold breast bring brought callid captive cause comes Comus dark death deeds delight divine doubt earth enemies Enter eyes fair fall fame Father fear fell foes force gave give glory Gods hand hast hath head hear heard heart Heaven honour hope Jesus king kingdom Lady least less light live Lord lost means mind mortal never night offer once perhaps person praise receive reign replied rest round Samson Satan Saviour seek serve shades shalt side sight Son of God song sons soon Spirit stand stood strength sweet tell thee thence things thou art thought throne thyself true virgin virtue voice wild winds wise wood
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الصفحة 3 - Yet some there be that, by due steps, aspire To lay their just hands on that golden key That opes the palace of eternity. To such my errand is...
الصفحة 6 - The star that bids the shepherd fold Now the top of heaven doth hold ; And the gilded car of day His glowing axle doth allay In the steep Atlantic stream ; And the slope sun his upward beam Shoots against the dusky pole ; Pacing toward the other goal Of his chamber in the east.
الصفحة 16 - Virtue could see to do what Virtue would By her own radiant light, though sun and moon Were in the flat sea sunk.
الصفحة 4 - Imperial rule of all the sea-girt isles That, like to rich and various gems, inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep...
الصفحة 16 - He that has light within his own clear breast May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day ; But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts Benighted walks under the mid-day sun ; Himself is his own dungeon.
الصفحة 30 - Impostor ! do not charge most innocent Nature, As if she would her children should be riotous With her abundance. She, good cateress, Means her provision only to the good, That live according to her sober laws, And holy dictate of spare Temperance.
الصفحة 34 - By hoary Nereus' wrinkled look, And the Carpathian wizard's hook ; By scaly Triton's winding shell, And old soothsaying Glaucus' spell ; By Leucothea's lovely hands, And her son that rules the strands ; By Thetis...
الصفحة 10 - Why shouldst thou, but for some felonious end, In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars That Nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps With everlasting oil to give due light To the misled and lonely traveller?
الصفحة 2 - Think not but that I know these things, or think I know them not ; not therefore am I short Of knowing what I ought : he, who receives Light from above, from the Fountain of Light, No other doctrine needs, though granted true ; 290 But these are false, or little else but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.
الصفحة 10 - What might this be ? A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses.