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... evil seek to bring forth good , " Our labour must be to pervert that end , " And out of good still to find means of evil : " Which oft - times may succeed , so as perhaps " Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb " His inmost ...
... evil seek to bring forth good , " Our labour must be to pervert that end , " And out of good still to find means of evil : " Which oft - times may succeed , so as perhaps " Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb " His inmost ...
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... Evil to others ; and enraged might see How all his malice served but to bring forth Infinite goodness , grace , and mercy shown On man by him seduced ; but on himself Treble confusion , wrath , and vengeance poured . Forthwith upright ...
... Evil to others ; and enraged might see How all his malice served but to bring forth Infinite goodness , grace , and mercy shown On man by him seduced ; but on himself Treble confusion , wrath , and vengeance poured . Forthwith upright ...
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... evil plight In which they were , or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed , 335 Innumerable . As when the potent rod Of Amram's son , in Egypt's evil day , 3 Waved round the coast , up called a pitchy ...
... evil plight In which they were , or the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their general's voice they soon obeyed , 335 Innumerable . As when the potent rod Of Amram's son , in Egypt's evil day , 3 Waved round the coast , up called a pitchy ...
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... evil spirits has been greatly praised , not only for its poetry , but as comprising a most learned epitome of the whole system of idolatry prevalent in Syria and adjacent countries , and as being not merely ornamental , but an essential ...
... evil spirits has been greatly praised , not only for its poetry , but as comprising a most learned epitome of the whole system of idolatry prevalent in Syria and adjacent countries , and as being not merely ornamental , but an essential ...
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... evil , and work ease out of pain , " Through labour and endurance . This deep world " Of darkness do we dread ? How oft amidst " Thick clouds and dark doth Heaven's all - ruling Sire " Choose to reside , his glory unobscured , " And ...
... evil , and work ease out of pain , " Through labour and endurance . This deep world " Of darkness do we dread ? How oft amidst " Thick clouds and dark doth Heaven's all - ruling Sire " Choose to reside , his glory unobscured , " And ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Æneid Alcinous alluding ancient angels arms Asmodai aught Bactria beast behold Belial bliss bright called celestial cloud Compare creatures dark death deep delight divine dwell Earth Egypt eternal Euphrates evil eyes fabled fair Father fear fire flowers fruit glory gods grace hand happy hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell hill honour Imaüs infernal Jupiter king Laërtes Latin less lest light live Lord mankind Milton night o'er Ophion pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parthian praise Ramiel reign replied round Samson Agonistes sapience Satan Saviour seat seemed sense serpent shade shalt shame sight Son of God soon spake spirits stars stood sweet taste tempter thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tree virtue voice whence winds wings wonder words
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Page 131 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 12 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe; Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 66 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be called that shadow seemed, For each seemed either — black it stood as Night, Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 341 - O flowers ! That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the 'first opening bud, and gave ye names ; Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount?
Page 77 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 110 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Page 75 - The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 281 - Superior; for, inferior, who is free? This may be well: but what if God have seen, And death ensue? then I shall be no more, And Adam, wedded to another Eve, Shall live with her enjoying, I extinct ! A death to think...
Page 150 - 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.
Page 36 - Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion, to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain...