Paradise Lost, Book 1Hurst, 1900 - 408 pages |
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Page 19
... o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darkened all the land of Nile ; So numberless were those bad angels seen 340 Hovering on wing under the cope of hell , ' Twixt upper , nether , and surrounding fires ; Till , as a ...
... o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darkened all the land of Nile ; So numberless were those bad angels seen 340 Hovering on wing under the cope of hell , ' Twixt upper , nether , and surrounding fires ; Till , as a ...
Page 20
... o'er the earth , Through God's high sufferance for the trial of man , By falsities and lies the greatest part Of mankind they corrupted to forsake God their Creator , and the invisible Glory of him that made them to transform 370 Oft to ...
... o'er the earth , Through God's high sufferance for the trial of man , By falsities and lies the greatest part Of mankind they corrupted to forsake God their Creator , and the invisible Glory of him that made them to transform 370 Oft to ...
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... o'er the Celtic roamed the utmost isles . All these and more came flocking ; but with looks Downcast and damp ; yet such wherein appeared Obscure some glimpse of joy to have found their chief Not in despair , to have found themselves ...
... o'er the Celtic roamed the utmost isles . All these and more came flocking ; but with looks Downcast and damp ; yet such wherein appeared Obscure some glimpse of joy to have found their chief Not in despair , to have found themselves ...
Page 27
... o'er the burnt soil . And now Advanced in view they stand , a horrid front Of dreadful length and dazzling arms , in guise Of warriors old , with ordered spear and shield , 560 Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose ...
... o'er the burnt soil . And now Advanced in view they stand , a horrid front Of dreadful length and dazzling arms , in guise Of warriors old , with ordered spear and shield , 560 Awaiting what command their mighty chief Had to impose ...
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... o'er the smooth And level pavement . From the archèd 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 . The hasty multitude Admiring entered ...
... o'er the smooth And level pavement . From the archèd 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 . The hasty multitude Admiring entered ...
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abyss Adam Almighty ancient ARGOB ARGUMENT arms battle Beëlzebub Belial Bohn Library BOOK Brit burning lake Chaos cherubim Cite passages classical dictionary Classical References Damietta darkness Death deep Demogorgon dreadful earth Edited by CHARLES Edited by J. H. Encyc encyclopædia eternal evil Faerie Queene fallen angels fiery fire gates glory gods hath Hawthorne's heaven hell Heroes High School highth hill HORONAIM Iliad infernal Irving's Julius Cæsar King lake light lines Longfellow's Macaulay's Essay Map of Classical Map of Palestine mighty Milton Moloch mythology Night o'er pain Palestine Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost Pelusium Pocket Series poet Prose pupil rage reign revenge round Satan Scott's Selections Serbonian bog Series of English Seven Deadly Sins Shakespeare's Shorter Poems spake speech sphere spirits Stevenson's stood Symplegades Tennyson's Thammuz thee thence Thither thou throne thunder try to image wings xxxv