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Page 95
... angel with archangel copes in fight ! When great Messiah's outspread banner shines , How does the chariot rattle in ... fair ; as Heaven sublime ! DR . JOHNSON'S PROLOGUE TO THE MASK OF COMUS . ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 95 Address to Great ...
... angel with archangel copes in fight ! When great Messiah's outspread banner shines , How does the chariot rattle in ... fair ; as Heaven sublime ! DR . JOHNSON'S PROLOGUE TO THE MASK OF COMUS . ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 95 Address to Great ...
Page 181
... Fair Angel ! thy desire , which tends to know The works of God , thereby to glorify The great Work - Master , leads to no excess That reaches blame , but rather merits praise The more it seems excess , that led thee hither From thy ...
... Fair Angel ! thy desire , which tends to know The works of God , thereby to glorify The great Work - Master , leads to no excess That reaches blame , but rather merits praise The more it seems excess , that led thee hither From thy ...
Page 193
... angel ; for they thought no ill . So hand in hand they pass'd , the loveliest pair That ever since in love's ... Fair couple , link'd in happy nuptial league , Alone as they . About them frisking play'd All beasts of the ' earth , since ...
... angel ; for they thought no ill . So hand in hand they pass'd , the loveliest pair That ever since in love's ... Fair couple , link'd in happy nuptial league , Alone as they . About them frisking play'd All beasts of the ' earth , since ...
Page 226
... fair Than Wood - Nymph , or the fairest Goddess feign'd Of three that in mount Ida naked strove , Stood to ' entertain her guest from heaven : no veil She needed , virtue - proof ; no thought infirm Alter'd her cheek . On whom the angel ...
... fair Than Wood - Nymph , or the fairest Goddess feign'd Of three that in mount Ida naked strove , Stood to ' entertain her guest from heaven : no veil She needed , virtue - proof ; no thought infirm Alter'd her cheek . On whom the angel ...
Page 260
... angel on archangel roll'd ; The sooner for their arms ; unarmed , they might Have easily , as Spirits , evaded swift ... fair with open front [ terms And breast , ( what could we more ? ) propounded Of composition , straight they changed ...
... angel on archangel roll'd ; The sooner for their arms ; unarmed , they might Have easily , as Spirits , evaded swift ... fair with open front [ terms And breast , ( what could we more ? ) propounded Of composition , straight they changed ...
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Abdiel Adam Almighty angels appear'd arm'd arms battle Beelzebub behold blank verse bliss burning lake call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim clouds Comus dark daughter death deep delight divine dread earth eternal etherial evil eyes fair Fair Angel fall Father fear fell fire flames friends Gabriel glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heaven heavenly Hell highth hill hope host infernal Ithuriel John Milton join'd King Latin less light Lycidas mankind Messiah Milton mind Moloch nature never night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass'd perhaps poem poet poetry praise rage reason reign revenge rhyme round Satan seem'd seems Seraph Seraphim shade sight soon spake Spirits stood sweet Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself turn'd Uriel verse vex'd whence winds wings wonder Zephon
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.