Paradise regained, a poem, ed. with intr. and notes by C.S. Jerram

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الصفحة vii - He asked me how I liked it, and what I thought of it? which I modestly but freely told him; and after some further discourse about it, I pleasantly said to him, Thou hast said much here of Paradise lost ; but what hast thou to say of Paradise found...
الصفحة 5 - But first I mean To exercise him in the wilderness; There he shall first lay down the rudiments Of his great warfare, ere I send him forth To conquer Sin and Death, the two grand foes, By humiliation and strong sufferance...
الصفحة 50 - Where on the ^Egean shore a city stands Built nobly, pure the air, and light the soil ; Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence, native to famous wits Or hospitable, in her sweet recess, City or suburban, studious walks and shades ; See there the olive grove of Academe, Plato's retirement, where the Attic bird Trills her thick-warbled notes the summer long ; There flowery hill Hymettus, with the sound Of bees...
الصفحة 32 - They err who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault. What do these worthies But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave behind Nothing but ruin wheresoe'er they rove, And all the flourishing works of peace destroy...
الصفحة 59 - Then, in a flowery valley, set him down On a green bank, and set before him spread A table of celestial food, divine Ambrosial fruits fetched from the Tree of Life, And from the Fount of Life ambrosial drink...
الصفحة 24 - Into the desert, and how there he slept Under a juniper ; then how, awaked, He found his supper on the coals prepared, And by the angel was bid rise and eat, And eat the second time after repose, The strength whereof sufficed him forty days ; Sometimes that with Elijah he partook, Or as a guest with Daniel at his pulse.
الصفحة 29 - Yet he, who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king ; Which every wise and virtuous man attains...
الصفحة vii - This is owing to you, for you put it into my head by the question you put to me at Chalfont, which before I had not thought of.
الصفحة 52 - Or, if I would delight my private hours With music or with poem, where so soon As in our native language, can I find That solace? All our law and story strew'd With hymns, our psalms with artful terms inscribed, Our Hebrew songs and harps, in Babylon That pleased so well our victors...
الصفحة 51 - Alas! what can they teach, and not mislead; Ignorant of themselves, of God much more, And how the world began, and how man fell Degraded by himself, on grace depending?

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