Vondels Lucifer en Miltons Verloren paradijsM. Nijhoff, 1895 - 128 pages |
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Abdiel Adam angelis Apollion archangels bedoelt beeld Beelzebub beide dichters Belial beschrijving Bijbel bijbelsch boek cherubs Christus dagh dieren divine draak duivelen earth Edmundson eenige engelen epos equal evil eyes Ezechiel full Gabriel gedachte geheel gelijk Gods Godt goed gold gout great haalt haer hath Heav'n Heaven heerlijkheid Hell hemel high Homerus hominem hooft hunne iets Ilias in't invloed van Vondel Jesaja Johnson licht light Lucifer made maken mazy mensch Michael Milton Milton beschrijft naer noemt oogen oogh Openb overeenkomst P. L. IV P. L. VI P. L. VII panser Paradijs Paradise Lost plaatsen power Raphael reign right round Satan schild schildering schoon schrijver shape slagh slang spreekt star sterren stood strijd thee thou troon Uriel vergelijken vertaalt verzen volgt Vondel vrucht want wolck woorden zegt zesde boek zooals zoon
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Page 30 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native Honour clad In naked Majesty seemed Lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks Divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, Sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed; Whence true authority in men; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed;* For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive Grace...
Page 46 - To ask or search, I blame thee not; for heaven Is as the book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous works...
Page 57 - That day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of fix'd, in all her wheels Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
Page 42 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Page 10 - Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing...
Page 42 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Page 97 - Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf Confounded though immortal: but his doom Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes That witnessed huge affliction and dismay Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate: At once as far as angels...
Page 31 - There wanted yet the master-work, the end Of all yet done; a creature, who, not prone • And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing; and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven...
Page 35 - Love hath abounded more than glory abounds ; Therefore thy humiliation shall exalt With Thee thy manhood also to this throne...
Page 23 - Upon the rapid current, which through veins Of porous Earth with kindly thirst up drawn, Rose a fresh Fountain, and with many a rill Waterd the Garden...