The purple island, or The isle of man. [In verse] To which is added, Christ's victory and triumph, a poem by G. Fletcher1783 |
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الصفحة iv
... Some may confider this as paying him too high a Com- pliment ; yet it is acknowledged by all , that in this Piece there is great Fertility of Invention , a glowing Imagination , a Display of much Learning , and a Vein of Piety . This ...
... Some may confider this as paying him too high a Com- pliment ; yet it is acknowledged by all , that in this Piece there is great Fertility of Invention , a glowing Imagination , a Display of much Learning , and a Vein of Piety . This ...
الصفحة vi
... some Parts , we hope for the Allowance of Candour and Benevolence . This Undertaking has been encouraged by many worthy and learned Divines , and other refpectable Perfons . And that the Divine Bleffing , for the ad- vancing the ...
... some Parts , we hope for the Allowance of Candour and Benevolence . This Undertaking has been encouraged by many worthy and learned Divines , and other refpectable Perfons . And that the Divine Bleffing , for the ad- vancing the ...
الصفحة xvii
... some Kentish hill , Near rolling Medway ' mongst my fhepherd peers , With fearless merry - make , and piping ftill , Securely pass my few and flow - pac'd years : While yet the great Auguftus of our nation , Shuts up old Janus in this ...
... some Kentish hill , Near rolling Medway ' mongst my fhepherd peers , With fearless merry - make , and piping ftill , Securely pass my few and flow - pac'd years : While yet the great Auguftus of our nation , Shuts up old Janus in this ...
الصفحة 10
... Some fervile crouch and fawn ; fome reign and rage : And new ftrange plots , brings fcenes as new and strange , Till most are flain ; the reft their parts have done : So here , fome laugh and play , fome weep and groan , Till all put ...
... Some fervile crouch and fawn ; fome reign and rage : And new ftrange plots , brings fcenes as new and strange , Till most are flain ; the reft their parts have done : So here , fome laugh and play , fome weep and groan , Till all put ...
الصفحة 14
... Some fecret pow'r here all things orders fo , That for a sunshine day , follows an age of woe . LIII . Witness this glorious ISLE ; which not content To be confin'd in bounds of happiness , Wou'd try whate'er is in the continent ; And ...
... Some fecret pow'r here all things orders fo , That for a sunshine day , follows an age of woe . LIII . Witness this glorious ISLE ; which not content To be confin'd in bounds of happiness , Wou'd try whate'er is in the continent ; And ...
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againſt arms bafe baſe beſt bleffed blood breaſt bright caft CANTO chyle cloſe cou'd death defire diffluence doth earth endleſs ev'ry eyes fafe faft fair fear fecond feem feem'd felf fenfe fhall fhepherds fhield fhine fhou'd fide fight filver fing fire firft firſt flain flaming flave fleep flow'rs fome fong foon foul fpirits fpring fram'd freſh ftands ftars ftill ftreams ftrength ftrong fuch fure fweet fwelling GILES FLETCHER glorious golden greateſt grief hath heart heav'n heav'nly hell Hepar herſelf higheſt himſelf ISLE itſelf laft lefs light moft moſt mufe muſe muſt never night paffage Pentarchy PHINEAS FLETCHER pleaſe pow'r praiſe reft reſt rife riſe ſeem ſhall ſhe ſmall ſome ſpends ſpent ſpite ſpread ſtands ſtars ſtate ſtill ſuch ſweet thee thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe thou thouſand thro tunicle unto uſe whofe Whoſe wou'd
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الصفحة 135 - He is a path, if any be misled ; He is a robe, if any naked be ; If any chance to hunger, he is bread ; If any be a bondman, he is free ; If any be but weak, how strong is he ! To dead men life he is, to sick men health, To blind men sight, and to the needy wealth, A pleasure without loss, a treasure without stealth.
الصفحة 136 - Heaven could shake; See how small room my infant Lord doth take, Whom all the world is not enough to hold! Who of His years, or of His age hath told? Never such age so young, never a child so old...
الصفحة 149 - And them in willing bondage fettered ; Once men they liv'd, but now the men were dead, And turn'd to beasts, — so fabled Homer old, That Circe, with her potion, charm'd in gold, Us'd manly souls in beastly bodies to immould.
الصفحة 37 - Fond man, that looks on Earth for happiness, And here long seeks what here is never found ! For all our good we hold from...
الصفحة 184 - His love, high God all heav'n as captive leads, And all the banners of his grace dispreads, And in those...
الصفحة 38 - Hardly the place of such antiquity, Or note of these great monarchies we find : Only a fading verbal memory, And empty name in writ is left behind : But when this second life and glory fades, And sinks at length in time's obscurer shades, A second fall succeeds, and double death invades.
الصفحة 159 - A garden was the place we perished all, A garden is the place He pays our price : And the old serpent, with a new device, Hath found a way himself for to beguile ; So he, that all men tangled in his wile, Is now by one Man caught, beguiled with his own guile.
الصفحة 172 - The life, the which I once did love, I leave, The love, in whi[c]h I once did live, I loath, I hate...
الصفحة 164 - See, where the Author of all life is dying : O fearful day ! He dead, what hope of living ? See where the hopes of all our lives are buying : O cheerful day ! they bought, what fear of grieving?
الصفحة 158 - Nor let the man ascribe it to his skill, That thorough grace hath gained victory : If any strength we have, it is to ill ; But all the good is God's, both power and eke will.