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Page 104
... hill Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song ; That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things ...
... hill Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song ; That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things ...
Page 110
... hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna ; whose combustible And fuell'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublimed with mineral fury , aid the winds ; And leave a singed bottom all involved [ sole With stench ...
... hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna ; whose combustible And fuell'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublimed with mineral fury , aid the winds ; And leave a singed bottom all involved [ sole With stench ...
Page 112
... hills , to be the mast Of some great ammiral , were but a wand , ) He walk'd with , to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle , ( not like those steps On heaven's azure ) and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides , vaulted ...
... hills , to be the mast Of some great ammiral , were but a wand , ) He walk'd with , to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle , ( not like those steps On heaven's azure ) and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides , vaulted ...
Page 115
... 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 .
... 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 .
Page 116
... hill of scandal , by the grove Of Moloch , homicide ; lust hard by hate : Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell . With these came they , who , from the bordering Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts [ flood Egypt from Syrian ...
... hill of scandal , by the grove Of Moloch , homicide ; lust hard by hate : Till good Josiah drove them thence to Hell . With these came they , who , from the bordering Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts [ flood Egypt from Syrian ...
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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.