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" The way seems difficult, and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe! Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat ; descent and fall To us... "
Paradise lost, a poem - Page 23
by John Milton - 1823
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Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ...

John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...perhaps 70 The way seems difficult and steep, to scale With upright wing against a higher foe. r z Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful...the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight 80 We sunk thus low ? Th' ascent is easy then ; Th' event is fear'd ; should we again provoke Our stronger,...
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Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...perhaps 70 The way seems difficult and steep, to scale With upright wing against a Higher Foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful...benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend 75 Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce...
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Paradise lost, a poem. With the life of the author [by E. Fenton].

John Milton - 1800 - 300 pages
...wing against a higher foe. Let such hethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake henumh not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up...native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who hut felt of late, \\hen the fierce foe hung on our hrokeurear Insulting, and pursu'd us through the...
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Paradise lost, a poem. Pr. from the text of Tonson's correct ed. of 1711

John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...perhaps 70 The way seems difficult and steep, to scale With upright wing against a higher foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful...benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend 75 Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce...
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The Art of Speaking: Containing. An Essay, in which are Given Rules for ...

James Burgh - 1804 - 312 pages
...The way seems difficult, and steep to scale With adverse -wing, against a higher foe.— t — Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful...our proper motion, we ascend Up to our native seat. Descend.s.nAfaTl To us is ad-verse. Who but felt of late When our fierce foe hung on our broken rear,...
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The works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 5

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 424 pages
...observed in the volubility and le. vity of these lines, which express an action tardy and reluctant. Descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rc«r Insulting, and pursu'd us through the deep. With what ponfusion and laborious flight We sunk...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with the life of the author ..., Volumes 1-2

John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...But perhapi 7P The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe, Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful...benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend 75 lp to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce...
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Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper

William Hayley - 1810 - 484 pages
...against a higher foe. ;/•>.» Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumm not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up...deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We stink thus low ? The ascent is easy then; The event Is fear'd; should we again provoke Our stronger,...
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Cowley, Denham, Milton

Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumn not still, That in onr proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent...what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low 2 The ascent is easy then ; The event is fear'd ; should we again provoke Our stronger, some worse...
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The Edinburgh Annual Register, for 1808-26, Volume 2

1811 - 858 pages
...at an in* A passage from Milton was most appositely quoted upon this subject in the Qwtcrly Review. Descent and fall To us is adverse : Who but felt of...flight We sunk thus low? the ascent is easy then. hospitable season, to give battle to their adversaries, and gain over them a signal victory ; it was...
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