 Not tied or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil.  The Philosophy of Progress in Human Affairs - Page 22by Henry James Slack - 1860 - 239 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1795 - 316 pages
...soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not ty'd or manacled with joint or Umb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condens'd, bright or obscure, Can execute their aiiy purposes, 430 And works of love or enmity fulfil.... | |
 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...And uncompounded is their essence pure, 425 Not ty'd or manacl'd with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose VOL. i. D Dilated or condens'd, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, 430 And works of... | |
 | John Milton - 1801 - 396 pages
...And uncompounded is their essence pure, 425 Not ty'd or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose Dilated or condens'd, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, 430 And works of love or enmity fulfil.... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1804 - 572 pages
...soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not ty'd or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh...or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their aery purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil. B, i. L. 423. Bishop Newton has supposed these notions... | |
 | Samuel Cooper Thacher, David Phineas Adams, William Emerson - American literature - 1806 - 788 pages
...benevolent spirits, are active though invisible agents in this lower world. Spirits, when they please, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil. The style of this discourse is heat and perspicuous, and we shall subjoin an extract, in which the... | |
 | Charles Sedley (novelist.) - 1808 - 214 pages
...154 Bond Street s . 175 MOTTO. « for spirits, when they please, Can either Sex assume — or both : but, in what shape they choose Dilated or condensed — bright or obscure — Can execute their aery purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil. \ MILTON. ASMOBETO; OB, THE DEVIL IN LONDON. * %... | |
 | 1810 - 482 pages
...brittle strength of bones, Likecumb'rous llesh; but in what shape they choose, Dilated or condens'd, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love or enmity fulfil. For those the race of Israel oft forsook Their living strength, and unfrequented left His righteous... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 484 pages
...And mi cam pounded is their essence pure; Not tied nor manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but in what shape they chiise Dilated or condens'd, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love... | |
 | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1812 - 334 pages
...soft And uncomptmnded is their essence pure ; Not ti'd or mancled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they chuse, Dilated or condensed, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, And works of love... | |
 | John Milton - 1813 - 342 pages
...And uncompounded is their essence pure, 455 Nbtty'd or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, Like cumbrous flesh; but, in what shape they choose., Dilated or condens'd, bright or obscure, Can execute their airy purposes, 1130 And works of love or enmity fulfil.... | |
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