The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... battle and victory in Heaven , against him and his accomplices : as before , after the first act , was sung a hymn of the creation . Here again may ap- pear Lucifer , relating and insulting in what he had done to the destruction of man ...
... battle and victory in Heaven , against him and his accomplices : as before , after the first act , was sung a hymn of the creation . Here again may ap- pear Lucifer , relating and insulting in what he had done to the destruction of man ...
Page 73
... battle and the council , with exact consistency . To Adam and to Eve are given , during their in- nocence , such sentiments as innocence can generate and utter . Their love is pure benevolence and mu- tual veneration ; their repasts are ...
... battle and the council , with exact consistency . To Adam and to Eve are given , during their in- nocence , such sentiments as innocence can generate and utter . Their love is pure benevolence and mu- tual veneration ; their repasts are ...
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... battle , when they were overwhelmed by mountains , their armour hurt them , crushed in upon their substance , now grown gross by sinning . This likewise happened to the uncorrupted angels , who were overthrown the sooner for their arms ...
... battle , when they were overwhelmed by mountains , their armour hurt them , crushed in upon their substance , now grown gross by sinning . This likewise happened to the uncorrupted angels , who were overthrown the sooner for their arms ...
Page 84
... battle , the alle- gory is broken . That Sin and Death should have shown the way to Hell , might have been allowed ; but they cannot facilitate the passage by building a bridge , because the difficulty of Satan's passage is described as ...
... battle , the alle- gory is broken . That Sin and Death should have shown the way to Hell , might have been allowed ; but they cannot facilitate the passage by building a bridge , because the difficulty of Satan's passage is described as ...
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... battle ; their chief leaders named , according to the idols known afterwards in Canaan and the countries adjoining . To these Satan directs his speech ; comforts them with hope yet of regaining heaven ; but tells them lastly of a new ...
... battle ; their chief leaders named , according to the idols known afterwards in Canaan and the countries adjoining . To these Satan directs his speech ; comforts them with hope yet of regaining heaven ; but tells them lastly of a new ...
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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.