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... feat , Sing , heav'nly Muse , that on the fecret top Of Oreb , or of Sinai , didft infpire That shepherd , who first taught the chosen seed , In the beginning how the heav'ns and earth Rofe out of Chaos : or if Sion hill Delight thee ...
... feat , Sing , heav'nly Muse , that on the fecret top Of Oreb , or of Sinai , didft infpire That shepherd , who first taught the chosen seed , In the beginning how the heav'ns and earth Rofe out of Chaos : or if Sion hill Delight thee ...
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... feat of Defolation , void of light , Save what the glimmering of thefe livid flames Cafts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the toffing of these fiery waves ; There reft , if any reft can harbour there ; And reaffembling ...
... feat of Defolation , void of light , Save what the glimmering of thefe livid flames Cafts pale and dreadful ? Thither let us tend From off the toffing of these fiery waves ; There reft , if any reft can harbour there ; And reaffembling ...
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... feat That we must change for heav'n , this mournful gloom For that celeftial light ? Be ' it fo , fince he Who now as Sov'reign can dispose and bid What shall be right : fartheft from him is best , Whom reas'on hath equall'd , force ...
... feat That we must change for heav'n , this mournful gloom For that celeftial light ? Be ' it fo , fince he Who now as Sov'reign can dispose and bid What shall be right : fartheft from him is best , Whom reas'on hath equall'd , force ...
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... feat of God , Their altars by his altar , gods ador'd Among the nations round , and durft abide Jehovah thund'ring out of Sion , thron'd Between the Cherubim ; yea , often plac'd Within his fanctuary itself their fhrines , Abominations ...
... feat of God , Their altars by his altar , gods ador'd Among the nations round , and durft abide Jehovah thund'ring out of Sion , thron'd Between the Cherubim ; yea , often plac'd Within his fanctuary itself their fhrines , Abominations ...
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... feat Was fair Damafcus , on the fertile banks Of Abbana and Pharphar , lucid ftreams . He alfo ' against the houfe of God was bold : A leper once he loft , and gain'd a king , Ahaz , his fottish conqu'ror , whom he drew God's altar to ...
... feat Was fair Damafcus , on the fertile banks Of Abbana and Pharphar , lucid ftreams . He alfo ' against the houfe of God was bold : A leper once he loft , and gain'd a king , Ahaz , his fottish conqu'ror , whom he drew God's altar to ...
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Page 87 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Water'd the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears...
Page 10 - Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
Page 114 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 5 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 60 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 195 - Earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here ! Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent. Tell me, how may I know him, how adore, 280 From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know...
Page 89 - Castalian spring, might with this Paradise Of Eden strive; nor that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Libyan Jove, Hid Amalthea, and her florid son Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye; Nor where Abassin kings their issue guard, Mount Amara, though this by some supposed True Paradise, under the Ethiop line By Nilus...
Page 44 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce ; From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice...
Page 59 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 104 - Know ye not then, said Satan fill'd with scorn, Know ye not me ? ye knew me once no mate For you, there sitting where ye durst not soar; Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng; or if ye know, Why ask ye, and superfluous begin Your message, like to end as much in vain ? To whom thus Zephon, answering scorn with scorn.