In at the window climbs, or o'er the tiles : So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew; and on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant... The Cambridge Examiner - Page 1991883Full view - About this book
| 1834 - 734 pages
...Sutan stole into Paradise, he perched upon the Tret of Life Nor on the virtue thought Of that life-gmng plant, but only used For prospect, what well used had been the pledge Ofimmortality. Now, in venturing on this simile, of which we confess we are exceedingly prwtl we must,... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 264 pages
...tiles ; So clomh the first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climh. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, 195 lou. 1326. f/Kovaas ffis ju' Itcrewtv f/Se uyxavcus ; would have killed me- In the former line... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 430 pages
...grand So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew ; and on the Tree of Life, • The...grew, Sat like a cormorant ; yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who lived ; nor on the virtue thought Of that life-giving... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 524 pages
...: So clomb this first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew ; and on the Tree of Life, The middle...death To them who lived ; nor on the virtue thought Ofthat life-giving plant, bul only used For prospect, what well used had been the pledge Of immortality.... | |
| John Milton - 1837 - 426 pages
...So clon ib this first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew ; and on the Tree of Life, The middle...grew, Sat like a cormorant ; yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who lived ; nor on the virtue thought Of that life-giving... | |
| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 470 pages
...fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew ; and on the Tree of Lifo, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant ; yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who lived ; nor on the virtue thought Of that life-giving... | |
| Friedrich Wilhelm Doering - 1839 - 360 pages
...se convertit, et Miltoiio in subliiui carminé Paradise lost В. IV, 164. de Satana in Paradiso — Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle...and highest there that grew, Sat like a Cormorant. De ave ipsa, quae hie ¿a<2x¿; appellatur, multa disputât Euatathius ad h. I. et sopore perfusis... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1841 - 840 pages
...tiles : So dumb this first grand thief into God's fold; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. e so too! (To live and die is all I have to do :) Maintain a poet's dignity and ease, And see regain'd, but eat devising death To them who liv'd; nor on the virtue thought Of that life-giving plant,... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 492 pages
...tiles; So clomb the first grand thief into God's fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, (The middle...grew,) Sat like a cormorant : yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who liv'd; nor on the virtue thought Of that life-giving plant,... | |
| John Milton - 1841 - 556 pages
...fold ; So since into his church lewd hirelings climb. Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, 195 (The middle tree and highest there that grew,) Sat like a cormorant : yet not true life Thereby regain'd, but sat devising death To them who liv'd ; nor on the virtue thought Of that life-giving... | |
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