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... Eternal anarchy , amidst the noise 890 where eldest Night Of endless wars , and by confusion stand . For Hot , Cold , Moist , and Dry , four champions fierce , Strive here for mastery , and to battle bring This is the received text . My ...
... Eternal anarchy , amidst the noise 890 where eldest Night Of endless wars , and by confusion stand . For Hot , Cold , Moist , and Dry , four champions fierce , Strive here for mastery , and to battle bring This is the received text . My ...
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... Eternal anarchy , " which weakens the grand roll of the language de- scribing the scene , and destroys the cadence which should be made manifest on the two latter words . But by my change the apparent redundancy is con- verted into a ...
... Eternal anarchy , " which weakens the grand roll of the language de- scribing the scene , and destroys the cadence which should be made manifest on the two latter words . But by my change the apparent redundancy is con- verted into a ...
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... Eternal ' co - eternal beam ( May I [ thus ] express thee unblamed - since God is Light , And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity , dwelt then in thee ? ) , Bright effluence of bright Essence increate ! BOOK III . ] MY ...
... Eternal ' co - eternal beam ( May I [ thus ] express thee unblamed - since God is Light , And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity , dwelt then in thee ? ) , Bright effluence of bright Essence increate ! BOOK III . ] MY ...
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... Eternal anarchy ! Amidst the noise Of endless wars hard by Confusion stands ; This is another pitfall into which all have fallen . The preposterous punctuation of all the editions is here shown : - -where eldest Night And Chaos ...
... Eternal anarchy ! Amidst the noise Of endless wars hard by Confusion stands ; This is another pitfall into which all have fallen . The preposterous punctuation of all the editions is here shown : - -where eldest Night And Chaos ...
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... to redeem , So dearly to redeem what hellish hate For an illustration of the poverty and torpor of the punctuation to be found in the received editions , compare the stirring lines , 315 to 322 . 1 Eternal King ! thee , Author of all being.
... to redeem , So dearly to redeem what hellish hate For an illustration of the poverty and torpor of the punctuation to be found in the received editions , compare the stirring lines , 315 to 322 . 1 Eternal King ! thee , Author of all being.
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Page 97 - ... her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 81 - So farewell hope, and, with hope, farewell fear, Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my Good: by thee at least no Divided empire with Heaven's King I hold.
Page 98 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Page 114 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels; for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing ; ye in Heaven. On Earth join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 17 - At which the universal host upsent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving; with them rose A forest huge of spears, and thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable...
Page 56 - 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 9 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; the almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 260 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 4 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...