Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books. With the Life of the Author, Volume 2J. Locken, 1828 |
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Page 13
... serpent error wandering , found their way , And on the washy ooze deep channels wore ; Easy , ere God had bid the ground be dry , All but within those banks , where rivers now Stream , and perpetual draw their humid train . The dry land ...
... serpent error wandering , found their way , And on the washy ooze deep channels wore ; Easy , ere God had bid the ground be dry , All but within those banks , where rivers now Stream , and perpetual draw their humid train . The dry land ...
Page 19
... serpent kind , Wondrous in length and corpulence , involved Their snaky folds and added wings . First crept The parsimonious emmet , provident of future ; in small room large heart enclosed ; Pattern of just equality perhaps Hereafter ...
... serpent kind , Wondrous in length and corpulence , involved Their snaky folds and added wings . First crept The parsimonious emmet , provident of future ; in small room large heart enclosed ; Pattern of just equality perhaps Hereafter ...
Page 47
... serpent finds her alone ; his subtle approach , first gazing , then speaking with much flattery extolling Eve above all other creatures . Eve wondering to hear the serpent speak , asks how he attained to human speech and such ...
... serpent finds her alone ; his subtle approach , first gazing , then speaking with much flattery extolling Eve above all other creatures . Eve wondering to hear the serpent speak , asks how he attained to human speech and such ...
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... serpent subtlest beast of all the field . Him after long debate , irresolute Of thoughts revolved , his final sentence chose Fit vessel , fittest imp of fraud , in whom To enter , and his dark suggestions hide From sharpest sight : for ...
... serpent subtlest beast of all the field . Him after long debate , irresolute Of thoughts revolved , his final sentence chose Fit vessel , fittest imp of fraud , in whom To enter , and his dark suggestions hide From sharpest sight : for ...
Page 52
... serpent sleeping ; in whose mazy folds To hide me , and the dark intent I bring . O foul descent ! that I , who erst contended With gods to sit the highest , am now constrain'd Into a beast ; and , mix'd with bestial slime , This ...
... serpent sleeping ; in whose mazy folds To hide me , and the dark intent I bring . O foul descent ! that I , who erst contended With gods to sit the highest , am now constrain'd Into a beast ; and , mix'd with bestial slime , This ...
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