The poetical works of John Milton. Paradise lost and regained1860 |
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... how repair ; How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ; If not , what resolution from despair . Thus Satan , talking to his nearest mate , With head uplift above the wave , and eyes That sparkling ...
... how repair ; How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement we may gain from hope ; If not , what resolution from despair . Thus Satan , talking to his nearest mate , With head uplift above the wave , and eyes That sparkling ...
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Adam Ægypt angels answer'd appear'd archangel arm'd arms Asmodai aught beast behold Belial bliss bright burning lake call'd celestial cherub cherubim cloud creatures dark death deep delight divine dread dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair Fair angel Father fear fiend fierce fire fruit gates glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart heaven heavenly hell hill honour JOHN MILTON join'd king lest light live Lord lost mankind Messiah Milton nigh night o'er ordain'd pain Pandæmonium Paradise PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAINED Parthian pass'd praise reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd serpent shade shalt sight Son of God soon spake spirits stood sweet taste tempter thee thence thine things thither thou art thou hast thoughts throne thyself tree turn'd vex'd virtue voice whence wings wonder
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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.