Paradise Lost, Book 1Hurst, 1900 - 408 pages |
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Page x
... wings for a flight . " His nature , education , and city life had unfitted him to be a " nature poet " ; and his flight was to be , not " somewhat near the moon , " to use Carlyle's phrase , but to the Highest Heaven and to the Deepest ...
... wings for a flight . " His nature , education , and city life had unfitted him to be a " nature poet " ; and his flight was to be , not " somewhat near the moon , " to use Carlyle's phrase , but to the Highest Heaven and to the Deepest ...
Page xiv
... wings . " During this dreadful period , he had been dictating , twenty or thirty lines at a time , to any one who would write for him , his immortal poem , which was finished about the year 1665 , and published in 1667. He sold his ...
... wings . " During this dreadful period , he had been dictating , twenty or thirty lines at a time , to any one who would write for him , his immortal poem , which was finished about the year 1665 , and published in 1667. He sold his ...
Page xxi
... wings off again from the sun's body , and , wheeling his steep flight toward the earth , alights at length on the top of Mount Niphates , near Eden . " ( See Fig . 4 or 5 , for Satan's flight through the World . ) In his first attempt ...
... wings off again from the sun's body , and , wheeling his steep flight toward the earth , alights at length on the top of Mount Niphates , near Eden . " ( See Fig . 4 or 5 , for Satan's flight through the World . ) In his first attempt ...
Page 6
... 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 highth of this great argument , I may assert eternal providence ...
... 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 highth of this great argument , I may assert eternal providence ...
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... wings he steers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight , till on dry land He lights ; if it were land that ever burned With solid , as the lake with liquid fire , And such appeared in hue , as when the ...
... wings he steers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air That felt unusual weight , till on dry land He lights ; if it were land that ever burned With solid , as the lake with liquid fire , And such appeared in hue , as when the ...
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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