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... wings outspread Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And mad'st it pregnant . What in me is dark Illumine , what is low raise and support , That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence , And ...
... wings outspread Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And mad'st it pregnant . What in me is dark Illumine , what is low raise and support , That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence , And ...
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... Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage , Perhaps hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep ,, Let us not slip th ' occasion , whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe . 175 ...
... Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage , Perhaps hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep ,, Let us not slip th ' occasion , whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe . 175 ...
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... vale . Then with expanded wings he steers his flight 225 Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt unusual weight ; till on dry land He lights , if it were land that ever burn'd With solid , as the lake with liquid fire ; BOOK I. 7.
... vale . Then with expanded wings he steers his flight 225 Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt unusual weight ; till on dry land He lights , if it were land that ever burn'd With solid , as the lake with liquid fire ; BOOK I. 7.
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... wing , as when men wont to watch On duty , sleeping found by whom they dread , Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake . Nor did they not perceive the evil plight 335 In which they were , or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their ...
... wing , as when men wont to watch On duty , sleeping found by whom they dread , Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake . Nor did they not perceive the evil plight 335 In which they were , or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their ...
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... wing under the cope of Hell ' Twixt upper , nether , and surrounding fires ; Till , as a signal giv'n , th ' uplifted spear Of their great Sultan waving to direct Their course , in even balance down they light On the firm brimstone ...
... wing under the cope of Hell ' Twixt upper , nether , and surrounding fires ; Till , as a signal giv'n , th ' uplifted spear Of their great Sultan waving to direct Their course , in even balance down they light On the firm brimstone ...
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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