hightop

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Chor: Consider, Samson; matters now are strain'd Up to the highth, whether to bold or break; He's gone, and who knows how he may report 1350 Thy words by adding fuel to the flame?

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John

So standing, moving, or to highth upgrown The Tempter all impassiond thus began.

From The Poetical Works of John Milton by Milton, John

Of this kind are the derivatives length from long, strength from strong, darling from dear, breadth from broad, from dry, drought, and from high, height, which Milton, in zeal for analogy, writes highth.

From Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations by Eliot, Charles William

To attain The highth and depth of thy eternal ways All human thoughts come short, Supreme of things!

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

But say I could repent, and could obtain, By act of grace, my former state; how soon Would highth recall high thoughts, how soon unsay What feigned submission swore?

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John