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... thou Verse , therefore , which evinces - nothing more Man's heavenly source ; and which , retaining still Some scintillations of Promethean fire , Bespeaks him animated from above . The Gods love verse ; the infernal powers themselves ...
... thou Verse , therefore , which evinces - nothing more Man's heavenly source ; and which , retaining still Some scintillations of Promethean fire , Bespeaks him animated from above . The Gods love verse ; the infernal powers themselves ...
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... thou , Celestial Light , Shine inward , and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes : all mist from thence Purge and disperse ; that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight . " If the reader will bear ...
... thou , Celestial Light , Shine inward , and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes : all mist from thence Purge and disperse ; that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight . " If the reader will bear ...
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... thou art call'd - whose voice divine Following , above the 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 ...
... thou art call'd - whose voice divine Following , above the 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 ...
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... thou hast overthrown them that rose against thee ; thou sentest forth thy wrath , which consumed them as stubble , and with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together ; the floods stood upright as a heap , and the ...
... thou hast overthrown them that rose against thee ; thou sentest forth thy wrath , which consumed them as stubble , and with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together ; the floods stood upright as a heap , and the ...
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... Thou didst blow with thy wind , the sea covered them , they sank as lead in the mighty waters . " omnipotence of Jehovah - his absolute power over the elements of nature , and the perfect ease with which he causes these elements to ...
... Thou didst blow with thy wind , the sea covered them , they sank as lead in the mighty waters . " omnipotence of Jehovah - his absolute power over the elements of nature , and the perfect ease with which he causes these elements to ...
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Page 61 - Judah is a lion's whelp : from the prey, my son, thou art gone up : he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion ; who shall rouse him up ? The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until he come to Shiloh ; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
Page 140 - Falsely luxurious ! will not man awake ; And, springing from the bed of sloth, enjoy The cool, the fragrant, and the silent hour, To meditation due, and sacred song...
Page 46 - When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
Page 50 - For a fire is kindled in Mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.
Page 55 - And he said, The LORD came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.
Page 60 - Reuben, thou art my first-born, my might, and the beginning of my strength, the excellency of dignity, and the excellency of power : unstable as water, thou shalt not excel ; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed ; then defiledst thou it : he went up to my couch.
Page 8 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 65 - And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the LORD be his land, For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that coucheth beneath...
Page 70 - Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.
Page 31 - The enemy said I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.