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... happy state , Favour'd of Heav'n so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? Th ' infernal Serpent : he it was whose ...
... happy state , Favour'd of Heav'n so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? Th ' infernal Serpent : he it was whose ...
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... happy realms of light Cloth'd with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright ! If he whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels , equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise , Join'd with me once , now ...
... happy realms of light Cloth'd with transcendent brightness didst outshine Myriads though bright ! If he whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels , equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise , Join'd with me once , now ...
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... happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our conqu'ror ( whom I now Of force believe almighty , since no less Than such could have o'erpower'd such force as ours ) Have left us this our spirit and strength entire ...
... happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our conqu'ror ( whom I now Of force believe almighty , since no less Than such could have o'erpower'd such force as ours ) Have left us this our spirit and strength entire ...
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... happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells : Hail horrors , hail 250 Infernal world , and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in ...
... happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells : Hail horrors , hail 250 Infernal world , and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in ...
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... happy though but ill , for ill not worst , If we procure not to ourselves more woe . 225 Thus Belial , with words cloth'd in reason's garb , Counsel'd ignoble ease and peaceful sloth , Not peace : and after him thus Mammon spake ...
... happy though but ill , for ill not worst , If we procure not to ourselves more woe . 225 Thus Belial , with words cloth'd in reason's garb , Counsel'd ignoble ease and peaceful sloth , Not peace : and after him thus Mammon spake ...
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