Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, to which is Added, the Force of ReligionPhillips & Sampson, 1848 |
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In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, to which is Added, the Force of Religion John Milton, Edward Young. Confounded , though immortal : But his doom Reserved him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost ...
In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, to which is Added, the Force of Religion John Milton, Edward Young. Confounded , though immortal : But his doom Reserved him to more wrath ; for now the thought Both of lost ...
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... thoughts , and chase Anguish , and doubt , and fear , and sorrow , and pain From mortal or immortal minds . Thus they , Breathing united force , with fixed thought , Moved on in silence to soft pipes , that charm'd Their painful steps o ...
... thoughts , and chase Anguish , and doubt , and fear , and sorrow , and pain From mortal or immortal minds . Thus they , Breathing united force , with fixed thought , Moved on in silence to soft pipes , that charm'd Their painful steps o ...
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... thoughts , and from the bottom stir The Hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings , and round about him , nor from Hell One step , no ... thought one step higher 50 Would set me highest , and in a moment quit 76 B. IV . PARADISE LOST .
... thoughts , and from the bottom stir The Hell within him ; for within him Hell He brings , and round about him , nor from Hell One step , no ... thought one step higher 50 Would set me highest , and in a moment quit 76 B. IV . PARADISE LOST .
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... thought ? ) escaped The bars of Hell , on errand bad no doubt ; Such , where ye find , seize fast , and hither bring ... thoughts , Vain hopes , vain aims , inordinate desires , 810 815 820 Blown up with high conceits ingendering pride ...
... thought ? ) escaped The bars of Hell , on errand bad no doubt ; Such , where ye find , seize fast , and hither bring ... thoughts , Vain hopes , vain aims , inordinate desires , 810 815 820 Blown up with high conceits ingendering pride ...
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... thoughts find all repose , My glory , my perfection ' glad I see Thy face , and morn return'd ; for I this night ( Such ... thought it thine : it said , " Why sleep'st thou , Eve ? now is the pleasant time , The cool , the silent , save ...
... thoughts find all repose , My glory , my perfection ' glad I see Thy face , and morn return'd ; for I this night ( Such ... thought it thine : it said , " Why sleep'st thou , Eve ? now is the pleasant time , The cool , the silent , save ...
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Adam adore ambition ambrosial Angels Archangel art thou behold beneath bless'd bliss breast call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud dark days of Heaven death deep Deity delight divine dread dust dwell earth eternal ethereal evil fair Fair Angel fate Father fear fire flame fruit glorious glory Godhead Gods guilt happy hast hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell hope hour human immortal know'st labour light live Lorenzo man's mankind mind mortal Nature Nature's night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace pleasure praise pride proud rapture Reason reign return'd rise round sapience Satan scape scene seem'd Seraph shade shines sight skies smile song soon soul spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thought throne thyself tree truth turn'd vex'd virtue whence wing wisdom wise wonder
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Page 92 - 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 55 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 290 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 82 - Imbrown'd the noontide bowers : Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. Others whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste...
Page 6 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire ; that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...
Page 25 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 57 - He and his faithless progeny. Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page 9 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 105 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 50 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.