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" I sdein'd subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burdensome still paying, still to owe... "
Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 82
by John Milton - 1820 - 305 pages
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1853 - 322 pages
...me, And wrought but malice ; lifted up so high I sdein'd subjection, and thought one step higher so Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still paying, still to owe ; Forgetful what from him I still receiv'd, And understood...
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The Beauties of the British Poets, with a Few Introductory Observations

George Croly - 1854 - 426 pages
...me, And wrought but malice ; lifted up so high, I 'sdained subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt...paying, still to owe, Forgetful what from him I still received, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted...
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Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained, with notes by J. Edmondston

John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...And wrought but malice : lifted up so high, " I sdained4 subjection, and thought one step higher 50 " Would set me highest, and in a moment quit " The debt...— " So burdensome ; still paying, still to owe, — 's Forgetful what from him I still received ; " And understood not that a grateful mind 5fl " By...
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The Boy's Second Help to Reading: A Selection of Choice Passages from ...

Theodore Alors W. Buckley - 1854 - 332 pages
...me, And wrought but malice ; lifted up so high, I 'sdain'd subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude, So burthensome, still Baying, still to owe, Forgetful what from him I still received ; And understood...
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The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost; with notes, by C.W. Connon

John Milton - 1855 - 202 pages
...me, And wrought but malice ; lifted up so high I 'sdained subjection, and thought one step higher so Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt...paying, still to owe ; Forgetful what from him I still received, And understood not, that a grateful mind 55 By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: A New Edition Carefully Revised from the ...

John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...me, And wrought but malice ; l1fted up so high I sdeined 1 subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt...paying, still to owe, Forgetful what from him I still received; And understood not 2 that a grateful mind Indebted and discharged; what burden then ? By...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life ...

John Milton - 1855 - 564 pages
...in me, And wrought but malice ; lifted up so high I 'sdained subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt...paying, still to owe : Forgetful what from him I still received, And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at onee Indebted...
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The Difficulties of Belief: In Connexion with the Creation and the Fall

Thomas Rawson Birks - 1855 - 236 pages
...of the lost archangel : — " Lifted up so high, I 'sdeigned subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt...gratitude, So burdensome, still paying, still to owe." It is true that this lofty position would give a deepei intensity to the voice of conscience, when...
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - 1856 - 312 pages
...malice ; lifted up so high I'sdain'd subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me high'st, and in a moment quit The debt immense of endless gratitude,...receiv'd ; And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd ; what burden then ? O had his pow'rful...
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The book of recitations [ed.] by C.W. Smith

Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...me, And wrought but malice ; lifted up so high, I 'sdained subjection, and thought one step higher Would set me highest, and in a moment quit The debt...paying, still to owe, Forgetful what from Him I still received ; And understood not that a grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted...
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