Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve BooksA. Donalson, and fold at his shop, 1772 - 323 pages |
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... hope the fine poetry and morality have recommended it to the audience , and not barely the authority of Milton's name ; and we with , for the honour of the nation , that the like good taste prevailed in every thing . In 1637 he wrote ...
... hope the fine poetry and morality have recommended it to the audience , and not barely the authority of Milton's name ; and we with , for the honour of the nation , that the like good taste prevailed in every thing . In 1637 he wrote ...
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... hope yet of regaining heaven ; but tells them , laftly , of a new wo`ld and new kind of creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven ; for that angels were long before this vifible creation , was the ...
... hope yet of regaining heaven ; but tells them , laftly , of a new wo`ld and new kind of creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven ; for that angels were long before this vifible creation , was the ...
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... hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning fülphur unconsum'd : Such place eternal Juftice had prepar'd For those rebellious , here their pris'n ordain'd In ...
... hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning fülphur unconsum'd : Such place eternal Juftice had prepar'd For those rebellious , here their pris'n ordain'd In ...
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... hope refolve To wage by force or guile eternal war , Irreconcileable to our grand foe , Who now triumphs , and in th ' excefs of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of heav'n . So fpake th ' apoftate angel , tho ' in pain ; Vaunting ...
... hope refolve To wage by force or guile eternal war , Irreconcileable to our grand foe , Who now triumphs , and in th ' excefs of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of heav'n . So fpake th ' apoftate angel , tho ' in pain ; Vaunting ...
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... hope , 190- If not , what refolution from despair . Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave , and eyes That fparkling blaz'd , his other parts befides Prone on the flood , extended long and large Lay ...
... hope , 190- If not , what refolution from despair . Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave , and eyes That fparkling blaz'd , his other parts befides Prone on the flood , extended long and large Lay ...
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