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" The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their appetite with gust, instead of fruit Chew'd bitter ashes, which... "
A Description and History of Vegetable Substances, Used in the Arts, and in ... - Page 289
1829 - 422 pages
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The poetical works of John Milton, with life and notes [by G. Gilfillan ...

John Milton - 1874 - 758 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megsera:1 greedily they pluck'd 5co The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flam'd ; This more delusive, not the touch, but taste Deceiv'd : they, fondly thinking to allay Their...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1875 - 794 pages
...held A bough of fairest fruit, that downy smiled, New gather'd, and ambrosial smell diffused. MILTON. Greedily they pluck'd The fruitage, fair to sight,...that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. MILTON. The force of that fallacious fruit, That with exhilarating vapour bland About their...
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Chaucer to Burns

Rossiter Johnson - 1876 - 840 pages
...roll'd in heaps, and up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megasra i g insect proper wings ; Silks of all colors must their...impart. And every fur promote the fisher's art. So flam'dr This more delusive, not the touch, hut taste Deceiv'd : they, fondly thinking to allny Their...
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Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1878 - 788 pages
...held A bough of fairest fruit, that downy smiled, New gather'd, and ambrosial smell diffused. MILTON. Greedily they pluck'd The fruitage, fair to sight,...that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed. MILTON. The force of that fallacious fruit, That with exhilarating vapour bland About their...
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English Trees & Tree Planting

William H. Ablett - 1880 - 456 pages
...that prospect strange Their earnest eyes they fix'd, imagining, For one forbidden tree, a multitude. The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near...to allay Their thirst with gust, instead of fruit Ghew'd bitter ashes, which the offended taste With sputtering noise rejected. Although not coming exactly...
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The poetical works of John Milton, with a life of the author by A. Chalmers ...

John Milton - 1881 - 894 pages
...the trees Climbing sat thicker than the snaky locks That curl'd Megaera : greedily they pluck' d 560 The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flam'd ; This more delusive not the touch, but taste Deceiv'd ; they, fondly thinking to allay Their...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life

John Milton - 1881 - 528 pages
...the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curled Megscra. Greedily they plucked Tho fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake where Sodom flamed ; This more delusive, not the touch but taste Deceived ; they fondly thinking to allay Their...
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The Poetical Works of John Milton: Reprinted from the Best Editions, with ...

John Milton - 1881 - 590 pages
...up the trees Climbing, sat thicker than the snaky locks That curled Megaera ; greedily they plucked The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous 4ake where Sodom flamed ; This, more delusive, not the touch but taste Deceived ; they, fondly thinking...
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Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics: Embracing the Myths, Traditions ...

Richard Folkard - 1884 - 660 pages
...an Apple which added new torments to the fallen angels, compares it to the Apples of Sodom : — " Greedily they pluck'd The fruitage fair to sight, like that which grew Near that bituminous lake wheie Sodom flamed. This mere delusion, not the touch but taste Deceived ; they fondly thinking to...
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Handy-book of Literary Curiosities

William S. Walsh - 1892 - 1116 pages
...florid outside, all within turns black and moulders into dust." (History\ v. 7.) Greedily they plucked klava," " Inkerman," " Sevastopol." Death, There is no. One of Longfellow's most popula flamed; This more delusive not the touch, but taste Deceived ; they fondfy thinking to allay Their...
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