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Page 107
... spake the ' apostate Angel , though in pain , Vaunting aloud , but rack'd with deep despair : And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer.- “ O Prince ! O Chief of many throned Powers ! That led the ' embattled Seraphim to war Under thy ...
... spake the ' apostate Angel , though in pain , Vaunting aloud , but rack'd with deep despair : And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer.- “ O Prince ! O Chief of many throned Powers ! That led the ' embattled Seraphim to war Under thy ...
Page 111
... mansion ; or once more With rallied arms to try what may be yet Regain'd in heaven , or what more lost in hell ? ” So Satan spake , and him Beelzebub Thus answer'd : " Leader of those armies bright , B. I. 111 PARADISE LOST .
... mansion ; or once more With rallied arms to try what may be yet Regain'd in heaven , or what more lost in hell ? ” So Satan spake , and him Beelzebub Thus answer'd : " Leader of those armies bright , B. I. 111 PARADISE LOST .
Page 123
... spake and to confirm his words , out - flew Millions of flaming swords , drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell : highly they raged Against the Highest , and fierce with grasped arms Clash'd ...
... spake and to confirm his words , out - flew Millions of flaming swords , drawn from the thighs Of mighty Cherubim ; the sudden blaze Far round illumined Hell : highly they raged Against the Highest , and fierce with grasped arms Clash'd ...
Page 130
... spake My sentence is for open war : of wiles , More unexpert , I boast not : them let those 66 Contrive who need , or when they need , not now . For , while they sit contriving , shall the rest , Millions that stand in arms , and ...
... spake My sentence is for open war : of wiles , More unexpert , I boast not : them let those 66 Contrive who need , or when they need , not now . For , while they sit contriving , shall the rest , Millions that stand in arms , and ...
Page 135
... spake : - " Either to disenthrone the King of Heaven We war , if war be best , or to regain Our own right lost . Him to unthrone we then May hope , when everlasting Fate shall yield To fickle Chance , and Chaos judge the strife . The ...
... spake : - " Either to disenthrone the King of Heaven We war , if war be best , or to regain Our own right lost . Him to unthrone we then May hope , when everlasting Fate shall yield To fickle Chance , and Chaos judge the strife . The ...
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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.