| English poets - 1790 - 342 pages
...Thame. 100 [The reft was profe.] III. On the MoRxivn of CHRIST'S NATIVITV. Compos'd 1629. I. THIS is the month, and this the happy morn. Wherein the Son...above did bring; For fo the holy fages once did fing, 5 That he our deadly forfeit fhoulJ releafe, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace. II. That... | |
| John Milton - 1791 - 668 pages
...only infericur to his own PARADISE LOST. ODES. ODES. ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY.* I. TH IS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son...Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; * This Ode, in which the many learned allufions are highly poetical, was probably compofed as a college-exercife... | |
| Robert Anderson - 1795 - 740 pages
...Comfta'il 16x9. THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Hcav'n's eternal Kim;, Of wedded maid, and Virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring ; For fo the holy Sa^fs once did fmo^ That he our deadly forfeit (hould releafe, And with his Father work us a perpetual... | |
| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...Morning of Christ's Nativity. Compo,-d 1629. I. J HIS is the month, and this the happy mom, Whetein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King, Of wedded Maid, and Virgin mother bom, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy Sages once did sing, That he our deadly... | |
| John Milton, Henry John Todd - 1809 - 456 pages
..." Qui fuprema fuo cum patre regna colit. '• Stelliparumque polum, modulantefque sethere turmas.* Of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption...above did bring; For fo the holy fages once did fing, 5 That he our deadly forfeit ftiould releafe, And with his Father work us a perpetual peace. The concluding... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...CHRIST'S NATIVITY. Composed 1639. THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of HeftvVs eternal King, Of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption front above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, 5 That he our deadly forfeit should release,... | |
| British poets - 1822 - 272 pages
...MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY. THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heaven's Eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring ; For so the holy sages once did sing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 468 pages
...Cambridge; and there is not only great learning shown in it, but likewise a fine vein of poetry. A a 3 Of wedded Maid, and Virgin Mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring ; For so the holy sages once did sing, 5 That he onr deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work,... | |
| John Milton - 1824 - 472 pages
...Thame. 100 [The rest was prose.] III. On the Morning of Christ's Nativity. * Composed 1629I. THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of heav'n's eternal King, ' To make the word Gift, like ' the river Mole in Surrey, to • run under the bottom of a long ' line,... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 360 pages
...Thame. [The rest was Prose.] I - III. ON THE MORNING OF CHRIST'S NATIVITY. COMPOSED lfi2;>. 1. THIS is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son...born, Our great redemption from above did bring ; For so the holy sages once did sing, That he our deadly forfeit should release, And with his Father work... | |
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