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... sweet ; Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave : nor did there want Cornice or frieze , with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold . Not Babylon , Nor great ...
... sweet ; Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave : nor did there want Cornice or frieze , with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold . Not Babylon , Nor great ...
Page 143
... sweet Extend his evening - beam , the fields revive , The birds their notes renew , and bleating herds Attest their joy , that hill and valley ring . O shame to men ! Devil with Devil damn'd Firm concord holds , men only disagree Of ...
... sweet Extend his evening - beam , the fields revive , The birds their notes renew , and bleating herds Attest their joy , that hill and valley ring . O shame to men ! Devil with Devil damn'd Firm concord holds , men only disagree Of ...
Page 145
... sweet , ( For eloquence the soul , song charms the sense , ) Others apart sat on a hill retired , In thoughts more elevate , and reason'd high Of Providence , foreknowledge , will , and fate , Fix'd fate , free will , foreknowledge ...
... sweet , ( For eloquence the soul , song charms the sense , ) Others apart sat on a hill retired , In thoughts more elevate , and reason'd high Of Providence , foreknowledge , will , and fate , Fix'd fate , free will , foreknowledge ...
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... sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe , All in one moment , and so near the brink . But Fate withstands , and to oppose the ' attempt Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards The ford ; and of itself the water flies All taste of living wight ...
... sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe , All in one moment , and so near the brink . But Fate withstands , and to oppose the ' attempt Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards The ford ; and of itself the water flies All taste of living wight ...
Page 152
... Heaven , and joys Then sweet , now sad to mention , through dire change Befallen us , unforeseen , unthought of ; know , I come no enemy , but to set free From out this dark and dismal house of pain Both 152 B. II . PARADISE LOST .
... Heaven , and joys Then sweet , now sad to mention , through dire change Befallen us , unforeseen , unthought of ; know , I come no enemy , but to set free From out this dark and dismal house of pain Both 152 B. II . 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.