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Page 99
... thence the nightly Visitant , ' that came To touch thy bosom with her sacred flame , Recall'd the long - lost beams of grace ; That whilom shot from Nature's face , When God , in Eden , o'er her youthful breast Spread with his own right ...
... thence the nightly Visitant , ' that came To touch thy bosom with her sacred flame , Recall'd the long - lost beams of grace ; That whilom shot from Nature's face , When God , in Eden , o'er her youthful breast Spread with his own right ...
Page 103
... thence attempt . Pandemonium , the palace of Satan , rises , suddenly built out of the deep . The infernal peers there sit in council . OF Man's first disobedience , and the fruit Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste Brought ...
... thence attempt . Pandemonium , the palace of Satan , rises , suddenly built out of the deep . The infernal peers there sit in council . OF Man's first disobedience , and the fruit Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste Brought ...
Page 104
... thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song ; That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . And chiefly Thou , O Spirit ! that dost prefer Before all ...
... thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song ; That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . And chiefly Thou , O Spirit ! that dost prefer Before all ...
Page 106
... thence in heaven call'd Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid silence , thus began : " If thou beest he ; but O , how fallen ! how changed From him , who , in the happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness ...
... thence in heaven call'd Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid silence , thus began : " If thou beest he ; but O , how fallen ! how changed From him , who , in the happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness ...
Page 110
... thence Had risen , or heaved his head ; but that the will And high permission of all - ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs : That , with reiterated crimes , he might Heap on himself damnation , while he sought Evil ...
... thence Had risen , or heaved his head ; but that the will And high permission of all - ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs : That , with reiterated crimes , he might Heap on himself damnation , while he sought Evil ...
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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.