Paradis perdu: de Milton, Volume 1 |
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In discourse more sweet , ( For eloquence the soul , song charms the sense ) Others apart sat on a hill retired , In thoughts more elevate , and reason'd high Of providence , foreknowledge , will , and fate ; Fix'd fate , free will ...
In discourse more sweet , ( For eloquence the soul , song charms the sense ) Others apart sat on a hill retired , In thoughts more elevate , and reason'd high Of providence , foreknowledge , will , and fate ; Fix'd fate , free will ...
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Page 284 - With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and...
Page 26 - 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 itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 338 - Rising or falling, still advance his praise. His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Page 252 - The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...
Page 280 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in 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...
Page 254 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 250 - Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose : Another side, umbrageous grots and caves Of cool recess, o'er which the mantling vine Lays forth her purple grape, and gently creeps Luxuriant; meanwhile murmuring waters fall Down the slope hills, dispersed, or in a lake, That to the fringed bank with myrtle crown'd Her crystal mirror holds, unite their streams.
Page 240 - Insuperable height of loftiest shade, Cedar and pine and fir and branching palm, A sylvan scene; and, as the ranks ascend Shade above shade, a woody theatre Of stateliest view.
Page 130 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 64 - The ascending pile Stood fixed her stately highth; and straight the doors, Opening their brazen folds discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement: from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
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| Title | Paradis perdu: de Milton, Volume 1 Volumes 24-25 of Chateaubriand, F.A.R., vicomte de. Oeuvres complètes Paradis perdu: de Milton, François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand |
| Author | John Milton |
| Translated by | François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand |
| Publisher | C. Gosselin, 1837 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Feb 28, 2008 |
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