Poetical Works, Volume 2Macmillan, 1893 |
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... Earth , and beholding , among the glories of the newly - created World , the Sun in his full splendour in the Heavens : - " O thou , that , with surpassing glory crowned , Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World ...
... Earth , and beholding , among the glories of the newly - created World , the Sun in his full splendour in the Heavens : - " O thou , that , with surpassing glory crowned , Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World ...
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... Earth or the Starry Universe to which it belongs , universal space is to be considered , according to the requisites of the poem , not as containing stars or starry systems at all , but as , so to say , a sphere of infinite radius ...
... Earth or the Starry Universe to which it belongs , universal space is to be considered , according to the requisites of the poem , not as containing stars or starry systems at all , but as , so to say , a sphere of infinite radius ...
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... Earth , with plain , hill , and valley , wherein the myriads of the Sons of God expatiate , in their two orders of Seraphim and Cherubim , and in their descending ranks as Archangels or Chiefs , Princes of various degrees , and ...
... Earth , with plain , hill , and valley , wherein the myriads of the Sons of God expatiate , in their two orders of Seraphim and Cherubim , and in their descending ranks as Archangels or Chiefs , Princes of various degrees , and ...
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... Earth , Water , Air , or Fire , but only a vast pulp or welter of un- formed matter , in which all these lie tempestuously intermixed . Though the presence of Deity is there potentially too , it is still , as it were , actually ...
... Earth , Water , Air , or Fire , but only a vast pulp or welter of un- formed matter , in which all these lie tempestuously intermixed . Though the presence of Deity is there potentially too , it is still , as it were , actually ...
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... Earth that hung close by the Moon " as one of the most " wonderfully beautiful and poetical " passages of the poem . But it is more wonderfully beautiful and poetical than Addison thought . For , as even a correct reading of the passage ...
... Earth that hung close by the Moon " as one of the most " wonderfully beautiful and poetical " passages of the poem . But it is more wonderfully beautiful and poetical than Addison thought . For , as even a correct reading of the passage ...
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