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... call'd Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid silence , thus began : " If thou beest he ; but O , how fallen ! how changed From him , who , in the happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness , didst outshine ...
... call'd Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid silence , thus began : " If thou beest he ; but O , how fallen ! how changed From him , who , in the happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness , didst outshine ...
Page 112
... call'd His legions , angel - forms , who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa , where the ' Etrurian shades , High over - arch'd , imbower ; or scatter'd sedge ASTOR LIBRAR NY BHL MILTON . Awake ...
... call'd His legions , angel - forms , who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa , where the ' Etrurian shades , High over - arch'd , imbower ; or scatter'd sedge ASTOR LIBRAR NY BHL MILTON . Awake ...
Page 113
... call'd so loud , that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded ; " Princes , Potentates , Warriors , the flower of Heaven , once yours , now If such astonishment as this can seize [ lost , Eternal Spirits or have ye chosen this place ...
... call'd so loud , that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded ; " Princes , Potentates , Warriors , the flower of Heaven , once yours , now If such astonishment as this can seize [ lost , Eternal Spirits or have ye chosen this place ...
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... call'd a pitchy cloud Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darken'd all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of ...
... call'd a pitchy cloud Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darken'd all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of ...
Page 115
... temple ' of God On that opprobrious hill ; and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom , -Tophet thence And black Gehenna call'd , the type of Hell . Next , Chemos , the ' obscene dread of Moab's B. I. 115 PARADISE LOST .
... temple ' of God On that opprobrious hill ; and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom , -Tophet thence And black Gehenna call'd , the type of Hell . Next , Chemos , the ' obscene dread of Moab's B. I. 115 PARADISE LOST .
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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.