Paradise Lost: A PoemBaudry's European Library, 1833 - 351 pages |
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... hath join'd In equal ruin into what pit thou seest : From what height fallen ; so much the stronger prov'd He with his thunder and till then who knew : The force of those dire arms ? Yet not for those , Nor what the potent victor in his ...
... hath join'd In equal ruin into what pit thou seest : From what height fallen ; so much the stronger prov'd He with his thunder and till then who knew : The force of those dire arms ? Yet not for those , Nor what the potent victor in his ...
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... Hath lost us Heaven , and all this mighty host In horrible destruction laid thus low , As far as Gods and heavenly essences Can perish for the mind and spirit remains Invincible , and vigour soon returns , Though all our glory extinct ...
... Hath lost us Heaven , and all this mighty host In horrible destruction laid thus low , As far as Gods and heavenly essences Can perish for the mind and spirit remains Invincible , and vigour soon returns , Though all our glory extinct ...
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... hath recall'd His ministers of vengeance and pursuit , Back to the gates of Heaven : the sulphurous hail , Shot after us in storm , o'erblown , hath laid The fiery surge , that from the precipice Of Heaven receiv'd us falling ; and the ...
... hath recall'd His ministers of vengeance and pursuit , Back to the gates of Heaven : the sulphurous hail , Shot after us in storm , o'erblown , hath laid The fiery surge , that from the precipice Of Heaven receiv'd us falling ; and the ...
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... hath equall'd , force hath made supreme Above his equals . Farewell , happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells . Hail , horrors ! hail , Infernal world ! and thou , profoundest Hell , Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind ...
... hath equall'd , force hath made supreme Above his equals . Farewell , happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells . Hail , horrors ! hail , Infernal world ! and thou , profoundest Hell , Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind ...
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... hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure ; — and , in my choice , - To reign is worth ambition , though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven ! But wherefore let we then our ...
... hath not built Here for his envy ; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure ; — and , in my choice , - To reign is worth ambition , though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven ! But wherefore let we then our ...
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Page 13 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 66 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 5 - Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th
Page 4 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 11 - Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 109 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 127 - But know that, in the soul, Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief: among these, Fancy next Her office holds; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when Nature rests.
Page 110 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 7 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost — the unconquerable will. And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield ; And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might no Extort from me.
Page 92 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...