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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, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from ... - Page 170
by John Milton - 1795
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The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1

John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...torments. But 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...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 Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...motion we ascend 10 Up to our native seat: descent and/aZJ Of that forgetful lake benumb not still, To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear, With what compulsion and laborious flight 15 We sunk thus low? Th' ascent is easy then. Insulting,...
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The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - English poetry - 1924 - 568 pages
...torments. But perhaps 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...adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung ou our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the Deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight...
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The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning

Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 952 pages
...torments. But perhaps The way seems difficult, and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe ! art, or strike for honest fame ; 410 Dear charming...decried, My shame in crowds, my solitary pride; Tlion foo hung oil our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the l)eep, With what compulsion and...
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The Leading English Poets from Chaucer to Browning: Ed., with Introduction ...

Lucius Hudson Holt - English poetry - 1915 - 956 pages
...torments. But perhaps The way seems difficult, and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe ! s reply, " О Master ! we are seven." . " But they...dead; those two are dead I Their spirits are in heaven hut felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 924 pages
...if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend 75 So We sunk thus low? The ascent is easy, then; The event is feared? Should we again provoke Our stronger,...
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A Book of English Literature, Selected and Ed

Franklyn Bliss Snyder, Robert Grant Martin - English literature - 1916 - 944 pages
...perhaps The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe? ' judgment. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that...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 Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1917 - 660 pages
...difficult, and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe ! Let such bethink them, if the sleep)' drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to pur native seat; descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...torments. But perhaps 70 The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe. shall continue until all @ Z.wealth piled by the bondman's two hundr 8c1 We sunk thus low? The ascent is easy then ; The event is feared ! Should we again provoke Our stronger,...
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Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Milton

John Milton - English literature - 1923 - 332 pages
...But perhaps vo 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...the Deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight so We sunk thus low? The ascent is easy, then; The event is feared ! Should we again provoke Our stronger,...
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