The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... fall . Chorus of Angels singing a hymn of the Creation . Heavenly Love . Evening Star . ACT II , Chorus sing the marriage - song , and describe Paradise . ACT III . Lucifer contriving Adam's ruin . Chorus fears for Adam , and relates ...
... fall . Chorus of Angels singing a hymn of the Creation . Heavenly Love . Evening Star . ACT II , Chorus sing the marriage - song , and describe Paradise . ACT III . Lucifer contriving Adam's ruin . Chorus fears for Adam , and relates ...
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... shape accuses him ; Justice cites him to a place whither Jehovah called for him . In the meanwhile , the Chorus entertains the stage , and is informed by on man . some angel the manner of the fall . Here the THE LIFE OF MILTON . 35.
... shape accuses him ; Justice cites him to a place whither Jehovah called for him . In the meanwhile , the Chorus entertains the stage , and is informed by on man . some angel the manner of the fall . Here the THE LIFE OF MILTON . 35.
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Including Translations ... some angel the manner of the fall . Here the Chorus bewails Adam's fall ; Adam then and Eve return ; accuse one another ; but especially Adam lays the blame to his wife ; is stubborn in his offence . Jus- tice ...
Including Translations ... some angel the manner of the fall . Here the Chorus bewails Adam's fall ; Adam then and Eve return ; accuse one another ; but especially Adam lays the blame to his wife ; is stubborn in his offence . Jus- tice ...
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... . Gabriel Goodman , Bishop of Gloucester , author of a book intitled , The Fall of Man , or the Corruption of Nature proved by natural Reason . ' composition , we have little account , and there was 46 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
... . Gabriel Goodman , Bishop of Gloucester , author of a book intitled , The Fall of Man , or the Corruption of Nature proved by natural Reason . ' composition , we have little account , and there was 46 THE LIFE OF MILTON .
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... fall . That he lived without prayer can hardly be affirmed ; his studies and meditations were an habitual prayer . The neglect of it in his family was probably a fault for which he condemned himself , and which he in- tended to correct ...
... fall . That he lived without prayer can hardly be affirmed ; his studies and meditations were an habitual prayer . The neglect of it in his family was probably a fault for which he condemned himself , and which he in- tended to correct ...
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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.