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... replied . What thanks sufficient , or what recompence Equal , have I to render thee , divine Historian , who thus largely hast allayed 1 The thirst I had of knowledge , and vouchsafed This friendly condescension to relate 8 Things ...
... replied . What thanks sufficient , or what recompence Equal , have I to render thee , divine Historian , who thus largely hast allayed 1 The thirst I had of knowledge , and vouchsafed This friendly condescension to relate 8 Things ...
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... replied . To ask or search , I blame thee not ; for Heaven Is as the book of God before thee set , 43 51 60 Wherein to read his wonderous works , and learn 68 His seasons , hours , or days , or months BOOK VIII . ] 33 PARADISE LOST .
... replied . To ask or search , I blame thee not ; for Heaven Is as the book of God before thee set , 43 51 60 Wherein to read his wonderous works , and learn 68 His seasons , hours , or days , or months BOOK VIII . ] 33 PARADISE LOST .
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... replied . How fully hast thou satisfied me , pure Intelligence of Heaven , Angel serene ! And , freed from intricacies , taught to live The easiest way ; nor with perplexing thoughts To interrupt the sweet of life , from which God hath ...
... replied . How fully hast thou satisfied me , pure Intelligence of Heaven , Angel serene ! And , freed from intricacies , taught to live The easiest way ; nor with perplexing thoughts To interrupt the sweet of life , from which God hath ...
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... replied . What call'st thou solitude ? Is not the Earth With various living creatures , and the air Replenished , and all these at thy command To come and play before thee ? Know'st thou not Their language and their ways ? They also ...
... replied . What call'st thou solitude ? Is not the Earth With various living creatures , and the air Replenished , and all these at thy command To come and play before thee ? Know'st thou not Their language and their ways ? They also ...
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... replied . Neither her outside formed so fair , nor aught In procreation common to all kinds , ( Though higher of the genial bed by far , And with mysterious reverence I deem , ) So much delights me , as those graceful acts , Those ...
... replied . Neither her outside formed so fair , nor aught In procreation common to all kinds , ( Though higher of the genial bed by far , And with mysterious reverence I deem , ) So much delights me , as those graceful acts , Those ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Angel appeared aught beast behold bliss bright bring bruise Canaan celestial Cherubim cloud created creatures curse dark death delight descend Designed & Engraved didst diurnal divine doom dust dwell Earth eternal evil eyes fair faith fear firmament of Heaven FLEET STREET fowl fruit glory Godhead Gods grace ground hand happy HARVARD COLLEGE hath havock heard heart heavenly Hell herb highth hill human voice judged judgement labour lest light live Lord mankind Michael nigh night PARADISE LOST peace perhaps race Raphael replied sapience Satan seat seed seemed Serpent shalt shame sight soon sovran spake Spirit stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither THOMAS WHITE thou art thou hast thou saw'st thought throne thyself tree virtue voice whence wherein wings wonder
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Page 165 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death! Must I thus leave thee$ Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of Gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.
Page 54 - In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not; love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges, hath his seat In Reason, and is judicious, is the scale By which to heavenly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure, for which cause Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
Page 4 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian Bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drowned Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 144 - Thy suppliant I beg, and clasp thy knees ; bereave me not, Whereon I live, thy gentle looks, thy aid, Thy counsel, in this uttermost distress, My only strength and stay ; forlorn of thee, Whither shall I betake me, where subsist ? While yet we live, scarce one short hour perhaps, Between us two let there be peace : both joining As join'd in injuries, one enmity Against a foe by doom express assign'd us.
Page 12 - Let there be light, said God ; And forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep...
Page 142 - Out of my sight, thou serpent! That name best Befits thee, with him leagued, thyself as false And hateful: nothing wants, but that thy shape, Like his, and colour serpentine, may show...
Page 170 - Not higher that hill, nor wider looking round, Whereon for different cause the Tempter set Our second Adam, in the wilderness, To show him all Earth's kingdoms and their glory. His eye might there command wherever stood City of old or modern fame, the seat Of mightiest empire, from the destined...
Page 3 - DESCEND from Heaven, Urania, by that name If rightly thou art call'd, whose voice divine Following, above the Olympian hill I soar, Above the flight of Pegasean wing...
Page 10 - Immediate are the acts of God, more swift Than time or motion, but to human ears Cannot without process of speech be told, So told as earthly notion can receive.
Page 23 - But grateful to acknowledge whence his good Descends ; thither with heart, and voice, and eyes. Directed in devotion, to adore And worship God supreme, who made him chief Of all His works...