The poetical works of John Milton. Paradise lost and regained1860 |
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... years of the great poet . During this period of quiet seclusion , Milton gave up his mind to the delightful task of poetic composition , and furnished in the Mask of Comus a splendid record viii LIFE OF JOHN MILTON .
... years of the great poet . During this period of quiet seclusion , Milton gave up his mind to the delightful task of poetic composition , and furnished in the Mask of Comus a splendid record viii LIFE OF JOHN MILTON .
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... delight ; As being the contrary to his high will , Whom we resist . If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good , Our labour must be to pervert that end , And out of good still to find means of evil : Which oft ...
... delight ; As being the contrary to his high will , Whom we resist . If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good , Our labour must be to pervert that end , And out of good still to find means of evil : Which oft ...
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... delightful seat Was fair Damascus , on the fertile banks Of Abbana and Pharphar , lucid streams . He also against the house of God was bold : A leper once he lost , and gain'd a king ; Ahaz his sottish conqueror , whom he drew God's ...
... delightful seat Was fair Damascus , on the fertile banks Of Abbana and Pharphar , lucid streams . He also against the house of God was bold : A leper once he lost , and gain'd a king ; Ahaz his sottish conqueror , whom he drew God's ...
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... delight ! how wearisome Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate ! Let us then not pursue , By force impossible , by leave obtain❜d Unacceptable , though in heaven , our state Of splendid vassalage ; but rather seek Our own ...
... delight ! how wearisome Eternity so spent in worship paid To whom we hate ! Let us then not pursue , By force impossible , by leave obtain❜d Unacceptable , though in heaven , our state Of splendid vassalage ; but rather seek Our own ...
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... delight , Son of my bosom , Son , who art alone My word , my wisdom , and effectual might , All hast thou spoken as my thoughts are , all As my eternal purpose hath decreed : Man shall not quite be lost , but saved who will ; Yet not of ...
... delight , Son of my bosom , Son , who art alone My word , my wisdom , and effectual might , All hast thou spoken as my thoughts are , all As my eternal purpose hath decreed : Man shall not quite be lost , but saved who will ; Yet not of ...
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Page 10 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 3 - Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 133 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 113 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncolour'd sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise....
Page 23 - In spring time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters: they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their strawbuilt citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs.
Page 59 - Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love, Where only what they needs must do appear'd, Not what they would ? what praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid ? When will and reason, reason also is choice, Useless and vain, of freedom both despoil'd, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me?
Page 90 - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes : but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces ; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be call'd Mother of human race.
Page 14 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock 450 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 11 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 2 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and with mig^y wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.