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... virtue , for the ease you find 320 To slumber here , as in the vales of Heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn T'adore the conqueror ? who now beholds Cherub and Seraph rolling in the flood With scatter'd arms and ensigns ...
... virtue , for the ease you find 320 To slumber here , as in the vales of Heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn T'adore the conqueror ? who now beholds Cherub and Seraph rolling in the flood With scatter'd arms and ensigns ...
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... virtues rising , will appear More glorious and more dread than from no fall , And trust themselves to fear no second fate . Me , though just right , and the fix'd laws of Heav'n , 10 15 111 Did first create your leader , next free choice ,
... virtues rising , will appear More glorious and more dread than from no fall , And trust themselves to fear no second fate . Me , though just right , and the fix'd laws of Heav'n , 10 15 111 Did first create your leader , next free choice ,
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... Virtues ; or these titles now 311 Must we renounce , and changing style be call'd Princes of Hell ? for so the popular vote Inclines here to continue , and build up here A growing empire ; doubtless , while we dream , 32 PARADISE LOST .
... Virtues ; or these titles now 311 Must we renounce , and changing style be call'd Princes of Hell ? for so the popular vote Inclines here to continue , and build up here A growing empire ; doubtless , while we dream , 32 PARADISE LOST .
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... virtue : lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth , which glory excites , Or close ambition , varnish'd o'er with zeal . 485 Thus they their doubtful consultations dark Ended , rejoicing in their matchless chief : As when ...
... virtue : lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth , which glory excites , Or close ambition , varnish'd o'er with zeal . 485 Thus they their doubtful consultations dark Ended , rejoicing in their matchless chief : As when ...
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... virtue should inthrall to force or chance . Their song was partial , but the harmony ( What could it less when Spirits immortal sing ? ) Suspended Hell , and took with ravishment The thronging audience . In discourse more sweet 555 ...
... virtue should inthrall to force or chance . Their song was partial , but the harmony ( What could it less when Spirits immortal sing ? ) Suspended Hell , and took with ravishment The thronging audience . In discourse more sweet 555 ...
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Adam Angel answer'd appear'd arm'd arms aught beast behold Belial bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud creatures dark death deep delight divine dread dwell Egypt eternal ev'ning evil eyes fair Fair Angel Father fear Fiend fire fix'd flow'rs fruit glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heav'n and Earth heav'nly Hell hill honour JOHN MILTON join'd King lest light live Lord lost mankind Messiah Milton's Poetical morn nigh night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Parthian pass'd pow'r praise reign reply'd return'd round sapience Satan scape 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 tow'rds tree turn'd vex'd virtue voice wand'ring whence wings