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" His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my... "
The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author - Page 206
by John Milton - 1829 - 375 pages
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Bell's Edition: The Poets of Great Britain Complete from Chaucer to ...

1776 - 478 pages
...i Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap .' there I should reit . i' '. N itj And sleep secure; his dreadful voice no more Would thunder in my ears, no fear of worse 7(0 To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still,...
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 282 pages
...lengttien'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would 1 meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ?...no more Would thunder in my ears, no fear of worse 78* To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expeftation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still,...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth 776 Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap...would torment me With cruel expectation ! Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die; Lest that pure breath of life, the sp'rit of Man Which...
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The Beauties of the Poets:: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry ...

1800 - 322 pages
...To deathless pain ? how gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible! how gted would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! there I...offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die, Lest that pure breath of life, the spirit of man Which...
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Paradise lost, a poem. With the life of the author [by E. Fenton].

John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...Mortality my sentence, and he eanh lnsensihle? how ;flad would Iay me down, A, in my mother's lap? there l should rest And sleep secure; his dreadful voice no...one douht Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die; >stthat pure hreath of life, the sp'rit of man, iVhich God inspir'd, cannot tugether perish pVith this...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...out To deathless pain ? How gladly woald I meet 775 Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible, how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ?...no more Would thunder in my ears, no fear of worse 780 To me and to my offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt DD 3 . Pursues...
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The British Essayists: The Spectator

Alexander Chalmers - 1802 - 600 pages
...sentence, and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap ! There should I reit And sleep secure ; his dreadful voice no more Would...offspring, would torment me With cruel expectation ' This whole speech is full of the like emotion, and varied with all those sentiments which we may...
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The works of ... Joseph Addison, collected by mr. Tickell, Volume 2

Joseph Addison - 1804 - 578 pages
...lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible ; how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap:...offspring, would torment me With cruel expectation. • This whole speech is full of the like emotion, and varied with all those sentiments which we may...
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The Apocalypse, Or, Revelation of Saint John, Translated; with Notes ...

John Chappel Woodhouse - 1805 - 696 pages
...says : • — — — — how gladly would I meet Mortality, my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me down As in my mother's lap ! there I should rest, And sletp secure ! — — — — — — — • — yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot...
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The Beauties of the Poets: Being a Collection of Moral and Sacred Poetry

1806 - 330 pages
...gladly- would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! how glad would lay me down c 25 As in my mother's lap ! there I should rest And sleep...offspring would torment me With cruel expectation. Yet one doubt Pursues me still, lest all I cannot die, Lest that pure breath of life, the spirit of man Which...
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