The Paradise LostA.S. Barnes & Company, 1853 - 552 pages |
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... Chaos : here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning lake , thunderstruck and astonished , after a certain space recovers , as from confu- sion , calls up him who next in order and dignity lay by him ; they confer of their miserable ...
... Chaos : here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning lake , thunderstruck and astonished , after a certain space recovers , as from confu- sion , calls up him who next in order and dignity lay by him ; they confer of their miserable ...
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... Chaos . Or if Sion hill Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian Mount , while it pursues ...
... Chaos . Or if Sion hill Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian Mount , while it pursues ...
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... Chaos and old Night . All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air , With orient colors waving : with them rose 525 530 535 540 545 A forest huge of spears ; and thronging helms Appear'd , and ...
... Chaos and old Night . All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air , With orient colors waving : with them rose 525 530 535 540 545 A forest huge of spears ; and thronging helms Appear'd , and ...
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... gulf between Hell and Heaven ; with what difficulty he passes through , directed by Chaos , the power of that place , to the sight of this new world which he sought . INTRODUCTORY REMARKS . In tracing the progress of this poem BOOK II. ...
... gulf between Hell and Heaven ; with what difficulty he passes through , directed by Chaos , the power of that place , to the sight of this new world which he sought . INTRODUCTORY REMARKS . In tracing the progress of this poem BOOK II. ...
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... Chaos is alone a sublime poem . Milton's descriptions of materiality have always touches of the spiritual , the lofty and the empyreal . Milton has too much condensation to be fluent : a line or two often con- tains a world of images ...
... Chaos is alone a sublime poem . Milton's descriptions of materiality have always touches of the spiritual , the lofty and the empyreal . Milton has too much condensation to be fluent : a line or two often con- tains a world of images ...
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