Paradise Lost, Books 1-2Leach, Shewell, and Sanborn, 1896 - 210 pages |
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... better welcome . For that it was then those years with me which are excused , though they be least severe , I may be saved the labor to remember ye . Whence having observed them to account it the chief glory of their wit , in that they ...
... better welcome . For that it was then those years with me which are excused , though they be least severe , I may be saved the labor to remember ye . Whence having observed them to account it the chief glory of their wit , in that they ...
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... better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . [ From the Tractate on Education , 1641. ] When all these employments are well conquered , then will the ...
... better to prefer a blameless silence before the sacred office of speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . [ From the Tractate on Education , 1641. ] When all these employments are well conquered , then will the ...
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... better to diffuse itself . Witness his descriptions , wherein he seems to circle like an eagle bathing in the blue streams of air , controlling with his eye broad sweeps of champaign or of sea , and rarely fulmining in the sudden swoop ...
... better to diffuse itself . Witness his descriptions , wherein he seems to circle like an eagle bathing in the blue streams of air , controlling with his eye broad sweeps of champaign or of sea , and rarely fulmining in the sudden swoop ...
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... Better than any other he has discharged the office of every great man , namely , to raise the idea of Man in the minds of his contem- poraries and of posterity , to draw after nature a life of man , exhibiting such a composition of ...
... Better than any other he has discharged the office of every great man , namely , to raise the idea of Man in the minds of his contem- poraries and of posterity , to draw after nature a life of man , exhibiting such a composition of ...
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... Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven . | But wherefore let we then our faithful friends , The associates and copartners of our loss , Lie thus astonished on the oblivious pool , And call them not to share with us their part In ...
... Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven . | But wherefore let we then our faithful friends , The associates and copartners of our loss , Lie thus astonished on the oblivious pool , And call them not to share with us their part In ...
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Page 38 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Page 62 - Almighty 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.
Page 53 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 101 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 181 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 105 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 102 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...
Page 70 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 57 - 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 Extort from me.
Page 21 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...