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... hath joined 90 " In equal ruin ; into what pit thou seest , " From what height fallen : so much the stronger proved " He with his thunder ; and till then who knew " The force of those dire arms ? Yet not for those , " Nor what the ...
... hath joined 90 " In equal ruin ; into what pit thou seest , " From what height fallen : so much the stronger proved " He with his thunder ; and till then who knew " The force of those dire arms ? Yet not for those , " Nor what the ...
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... Hath lost us Heaven ; and all this mighty host " In horrible destruction laid thus low , " As far as gods and heavenly essences " Can perish : for the mind and spirit remains " Invincible , and vigour soon returns , 140 " Though all our ...
... Hath lost us Heaven ; and all this mighty host " In horrible destruction laid thus low , " As far as gods and heavenly essences " Can perish : for the mind and spirit remains " Invincible , and vigour soon returns , 140 " Though all our ...
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... hath recalled " His ministers of vengeance and pursuit " Back to the gates of Heaven : the sulphurous hail , " Shot after us in storm , o'erblown hath laid " The fiery surge , that from the precipice 155 160 165 170 1 Arch - fiênà ; 1 ...
... hath recalled " His ministers of vengeance and pursuit " Back to the gates of Heaven : the sulphurous hail , " Shot after us in storm , o'erblown hath laid " The fiery surge , that from the precipice 155 160 165 170 1 Arch - fiênà ; 1 ...
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... hath spent his shafts , and ceases now " To bellow through the vast and boundless deep . " Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn , " Or satiate fury , yield it from our foe . " Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild ...
... hath spent his shafts , and ceases now " To bellow through the vast and boundless deep . " Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn , " Or satiate fury , yield it from our foe . " Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild ...
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... hath equalled , force hath made supreme " Above his equals . Farewell , happy fields , " Where joy for ever dwells ! Hail , horrors ! hail , 250 " Infernal world ! and thou , profoundest hell , " Receive thy new possessor ! one who ...
... hath equalled , force hath made supreme " Above his equals . Farewell , happy fields , " Where joy for ever dwells ! Hail , horrors ! hail , 250 " Infernal world ! and thou , profoundest hell , " Receive thy new possessor ! one who ...
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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...