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A Selection from the English Prose Works of John Milton - Page 239
by John Milton - 1826
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The Life of John Milton: Narrated in Connexion with the Political ..., Volume 1

David Masson - 1881 - 878 pages
...truly so, whose charming-cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those who are worthy : the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion...sublimities as these, it might be worth your listening . . . This that I have hitherto related hath been to show that, though Christianity had been but slightly...
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Milton's Arcades and Comus

John Milton - 1891 - 322 pages
...truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those who are worthy; (the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion, which a certain sorceress, the abuser of love's nature, carries about;) and how the first and chiefest office of love begins and ends in the soul,...
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Arcades & Comus

J. Milton - 1891 - 306 pages
...truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those who are worthy; (the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion, which a certain sorceress, the abuser of love's nature, carries about;) and how the first and chiefest office of love begins and ends in the soul,...
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English Prose: Selections : with Critical Introductions by Various ..., Volume 2

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 pages
...truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those who are worthy (the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion,...twins of her divine generation, knowledge and virtue. (From the Apology for Smectymnuus.) THE NEW INQUISITION FOR if they fell upon one kind of strictness,...
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English Prose: Selections, Volume 2

Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 628 pages
...truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those who are worthy (the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion,...twins of her divine generation, knowledge and virtue. (From the Apology for Smectymmeus.) THE NEW INQUISITION FOR if they fell upon one kind of strictness,...
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Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and II

John Milton - 1896 - 226 pages
...so — whose charming cup is only virtuej_which she bears in her hand to those \vho are worthy (the rest are cheated with a thick, intoxicating potion, which a certain sorceress, the abuser of Jove's name, carries aljo_ut) ; and how the first and chiefest office of love begins and ends in the...
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Lycidas

John Milton - 1898 - 204 pages
...calls it that Love "whose charming cup is only virtue," and whose "first and chiefest office . . . begins and ends in the soul, producing those happy...twins of her divine generation, Knowledge and Virtue." To this high and mystical love Milton again alludes in Epitaphimm Damonis : " In other part, the expansive...
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An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton: Comprising ...

John Milton, Hiram Corson - 1899 - 354 pages
...truly so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those who are worthy ; (the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion,...producing those happy twins of her divine generation, Iqiowledge^and virtue. With such abstracted sublimities as these, it might be worth your listening,...
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An Introduction to the Prose and Poetical Works of John Milton

John Milton - 1899 - 346 pages
...so, \vhose cfiarming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her 1 hand to those who are worthy; (the rest are cheated with ^ a thick intoxicating potion,...love's name, carries about;) and how the first and those happy twins of her divine generation, knowledge and virtue. With such abstracted sublimities...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 8

David Josiah Brewer, Edward Archibald Allen, William Schuyler - 1900 - 450 pages
...so, whose charming cup is only virtue, which she bears in her hand to those who are worthy — the rest are cheated with a thick intoxicating potion,...twins of her divine generation, knowledge and virtue. From the "Apology for Smectymnuus. " ON GIVING DESPOTS A FAIR TRIAL CERTAINLY if men, not to speak...
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