The Paradise Lost of Milton, Volume 2Septimus Prowett, 1827 - Bible |
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... rule by day , The less by night , altern ; and made the stars , And set them in the firmament of Heaven To illuminate the Earth , and rule the day In their vicissitude , and rule the night , And light from darkness to divide . God saw ...
... rule by day , The less by night , altern ; and made the stars , And set them in the firmament of Heaven To illuminate the Earth , and rule the day In their vicissitude , and rule the night , And light from darkness to divide . God saw ...
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... rule Over the fish and fowl of sea and air , Beast of the field , and over all the Earth , And every creeping thing that creeps the ground . This said , he formed thee , Adam , thee , O man , Dust of the ground , and in thy nostrils ...
... rule Over the fish and fowl of sea and air , Beast of the field , and over all the Earth , And every creeping thing that creeps the ground . This said , he formed thee , Adam , thee , O man , Dust of the ground , and in thy nostrils ...
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... rule Over his works , on earth , in sea , or air , And multiply a race of worshippers Holy and just : Thrice happy , if they know Their happiness , and persevere upright ! So sung they , and the empyréan rung With halleluiahs : Thus was ...
... rule Over his works , on earth , in sea , or air , And multiply a race of worshippers Holy and just : Thrice happy , if they know Their happiness , and persevere upright ! So sung they , and the empyréan rung With halleluiahs : Thus was ...
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... rule ; thy realm is large . So spake the Universal Lord , and seemed So ordering : I , with leave of speech implored , And humble deprecation , thus replied , Let not my words offend thee , Heavenly Power ; My Maker , be propitious ...
... rule ; thy realm is large . So spake the Universal Lord , and seemed So ordering : I , with leave of speech implored , And humble deprecation , thus replied , Let not my words offend thee , Heavenly Power ; My Maker , be propitious ...
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... rule : restraint she will not brook ; And , left to herself , if evil thence ensue , She first his weak indulgence will accuse . 1186 Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours , 104 [ BOOK IX . PARADISE LOST .
... rule : restraint she will not brook ; And , left to herself , if evil thence ensue , She first his weak indulgence will accuse . 1186 Thus they in mutual accusation spent The fruitless hours , 104 [ BOOK IX . PARADISE LOST .
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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...