Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve BooksL. Coffin, 1831 - 294 pages |
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... faith , and firm accord , More than can be in Heaven , we now return To claim our just inheritance of old , Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assured us ; and , by what best way , Whether of open war , or covert guile , We now ...
... faith , and firm accord , More than can be in Heaven , we now return To claim our just inheritance of old , Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assured us ; and , by what best way , Whether of open war , or covert guile , We now ...
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... faith , till then Unbroken ; and in proud rebellious arms Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons Conjured against the Highest ; for which both thou And they , outcast from God , are here condemn'd To waste eternal days in woe ...
... faith , till then Unbroken ; and in proud rebellious arms Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons Conjured against the Highest ; for which both thou And they , outcast from God , are here condemn'd To waste eternal days in woe ...
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... faith , or love , 105 Where only what they needs must do appear'd , Not what they would ? what praise could they receive What pleasure I from such obedience paid , When will and reason ( reason also is choice ) Useless and vain , of ...
... faith , or love , 105 Where only what they needs must do appear'd , Not what they would ? what praise could they receive What pleasure I from such obedience paid , When will and reason ( reason also is choice ) Useless and vain , of ...
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... faith ? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin ! hence I will excite their minds With more desire to know , and to reject Envious commands , invented with design 520 To keep them low , whom knowledge might exalt 525 Equal ...
... faith ? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin ! hence I will excite their minds With more desire to know , and to reject Envious commands , invented with design 520 To keep them low , whom knowledge might exalt 525 Equal ...
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... faith engaged , Your military obedience , to dissolve Allegiance to the acknowledged Power supreme ? And thou , sly hypocrite , who now wouldst seem Patron of liberty , who more than thou 955 Once fawn'd , and cringed , and servilely ...
... faith engaged , Your military obedience , to dissolve Allegiance to the acknowledged Power supreme ? And thou , sly hypocrite , who now wouldst seem Patron of liberty , who more than thou 955 Once fawn'd , and cringed , and servilely ...
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Adam Almighty Angels answer'd appear'd Archangel arm'd arms aught beast Beelzebub behold bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deep delight didst divine dreadful dwell Earth eternal evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith Father fear fierce fire fix'd flaming flowers fruit gates glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell hill Ithuriel JOHN MILTON join'd King lest light live lost mankind Messiah Michaël mix'd night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace reign replied return'd round sapience Satan scape seat seem'd Seraph Serpent shalt sight soon sov'reign spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree turn'd Uriel vex'd voice whence wings wonder Zephon
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Page 107 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 23 - From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 4 - And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men.
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 107 - 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 213 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 76 - Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubled 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 more than from himself, can fly By change of place...
Page 154 - 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 drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 22 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Page 76 - 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 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...