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... celestial rebellion are very judiciously discriminated in the first and second books ; and the ferocious character of Moloch ap- pears , both in the battle and the council , with exact consistency . To Adam and to Eve are given , during ...
... celestial rebellion are very judiciously discriminated in the first and second books ; and the ferocious character of Moloch ap- pears , both in the battle and the council , with exact consistency . To Adam and to Eve are given , during ...
Page 82
... celestial powers are sometimes pure spirit , and sometimes animated body . When Satan walks with his lance upon the burning marl , he has a body ; when , in his passage between Hell and the new world , he is in danger of sinking in the ...
... celestial powers are sometimes pure spirit , and sometimes animated body . When Satan walks with his lance upon the burning marl , he has a body ; when , in his passage between Hell and the new world , he is in danger of sinking in the ...
Page 99
... celestial scenes . She from thy lyre With indignation tore the tinkling bells , And tuned it to sublimest argument . FROM COWPER'S TABLE TALK . AGES elapsed ere Homer's lamp ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 99 From Dr Roberts' Epistle on the ...
... celestial scenes . She from thy lyre With indignation tore the tinkling bells , And tuned it to sublimest argument . FROM COWPER'S TABLE TALK . AGES elapsed ere Homer's lamp ENCOMIUMS UPON MILTON . 99 From Dr Roberts' Epistle on the ...
Page 111
... celestial light ? Be ' it so , since he , Who now is sovran , can dispose and bid What shall be right : furthest from him is best , Whom reason hath equall'd , force hath made supreme Above his equals . Farewell , happy fields , Where ...
... celestial light ? Be ' it so , since he , Who now is sovran , can dispose and bid What shall be right : furthest from him is best , Whom reason hath equall'd , force hath made supreme Above his equals . Farewell , happy fields , Where ...
Page 123
... Celestial spirits in bondage , nor the ' abyss Long under darkness cover . But these thoughts Full counsel must mature : Peace is despair'd ; For who can think submission ? War then , War , Open or understood , must be resolved . " He ...
... Celestial spirits in bondage , nor the ' abyss Long under darkness cover . But these thoughts Full counsel must mature : Peace is despair'd ; For who can think submission ? War then , War , Open or understood , must be resolved . " He ...
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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.