Paradise Lost, Book 1Hurst, 1900 - 408 pages |
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... seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons , Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless , like that pygmean ° race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves , Whose midnight revels , by a forest side Or ...
... seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons , Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless , like that pygmean ° race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves , Whose midnight revels , by a forest side Or ...
Page 45
... seemed For dignity composed , and high exploit ; But all was false and hollow , though his tongue Dropt manna , and could make the worse appear The better reason , to perplex and dash Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts were low , To ...
... seemed For dignity composed , and high exploit ; But all was false and hollow , though his tongue Dropt manna , and could make the worse appear The better reason , to perplex and dash Maturest counsels ; for his thoughts were low , To ...
Page 47
... seemed A refuge from those wounds . Chained on the burning lake ? Or when we lay 150 160 That sure was worse . What if the breath that kindled those grim fires , 170 Awaked , should blow them into sevenfold rage , And BOOK II ] 47 ...
... seemed A refuge from those wounds . Chained on the burning lake ? Or when we lay 150 160 That sure was worse . What if the breath that kindled those grim fires , 170 Awaked , should blow them into sevenfold rage , And BOOK II ] 47 ...
Page 53
... seemed A pillar of state . Deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat , and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone , Majestic , though in ruin . Sage he stood , With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of ...
... seemed A pillar of state . Deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat , and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone , Majestic , though in ruin . Sage he stood , With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of ...
Page 61
... seemed Alone the antagonist of heaven , nor less Than hell's dread emperor , with pomp supreme , And godlike imitated state : him round A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed With bright emblazonry , and horrent arms . Then of their session ...
... seemed Alone the antagonist of heaven , nor less Than hell's dread emperor , with pomp supreme , And godlike imitated state : him round A globe of fiery seraphim enclosed With bright emblazonry , and horrent arms . Then of their session ...
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abyss Adam Almighty ancient ARGOB ARGUMENT arms battle Beelzebub Belial bibliography 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 Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost Phlegra poet Prose pupil rage reign revenge round Satan Satan's flight Scott's Selections Serbonian bog Series of English serpent 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