Select Works of the British Poets, in a Chronological Series from Ben Jonson to BeattieJohn Aikin A. Hart, Carey & Hart, 1850 - 807 pages |
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... throne and monarchy of God , Rais'd impious war in Heaven , and battle proud , With vein attempt . Him the Almighty power , Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky , With hideous ruin and combustion , down To bottomless perdition ...
... throne and monarchy of God , Rais'd impious war in Heaven , and battle proud , With vein attempt . Him the Almighty power , Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky , With hideous ruin and combustion , down To bottomless perdition ...
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... throne , Yielded with full consent . The happier state In Heaven , which follows dignity , might draw Envy from each inferior ; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Foremost to stand against the Thunderer's aim , Your ...
... throne , Yielded with full consent . The happier state In Heaven , which follows dignity , might draw Envy from each inferior ; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Foremost to stand against the Thunderer's aim , Your ...
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... throne With warbled hymns , and to his Godhead sing Forc'd Halleluiahs ; while he lordly sits Our envied sovran , and his altar breathes Ambrosial odors and ambrosial flowers , Our servile offerings ? This must be our task In Heaven ...
... throne With warbled hymns , and to his Godhead sing Forc'd Halleluiahs ; while he lordly sits Our envied sovran , and his altar breathes Ambrosial odors and ambrosial flowers , Our servile offerings ? This must be our task In Heaven ...
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... Thrones and imperial powers , offspring of Heaven , Ethereal virtues : or these titles now Some easier enterprise ? There ... throne , but to remain In strictest bondage , though thus far remov'd Under the inevitable curb , reserv'd His ...
... Thrones and imperial powers , offspring of Heaven , Ethereal virtues : or these titles now Some easier enterprise ? There ... throne , but to remain In strictest bondage , though thus far remov'd Under the inevitable curb , reserv'd His ...
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... thrones , With reason hath deep silence and demur Seiz'd us , though undismay'd . Long is the way And hard , that out ... throne , O peers , And this imperial sovranty , adorn'd be As when from mountain - tops the dusky clouds Ascending ...
... thrones , With reason hath deep silence and demur Seiz'd us , though undismay'd . Long is the way And hard , that out ... throne , O peers , And this imperial sovranty , adorn'd be As when from mountain - tops the dusky clouds Ascending ...
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