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... heart and pure , Instruct me , for thou know'st ; -thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And madest it pregnant : —what in me is dark , Illumine ! what is ...
... heart and pure , Instruct me , for thou know'st ; -thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings outspread , Dove - like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And madest it pregnant : —what in me is dark , Illumine ! what is ...
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... heart of Hell to work in fire , " Or do his errands in the gloomy deep ? " What can it then avail , though yet we feel " Strength undiminished , or eternal being , " To undergo eternal punishment ? " Whereto with speedy words the Arch ...
... heart of Hell to work in fire , " Or do his errands in the gloomy deep ? " What can it then avail , though yet we feel " Strength undiminished , or eternal being , " To undergo eternal punishment ? " Whereto with speedy words the Arch ...
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... heart Of Solomon he led , by fraud , to build His temple right against the temple of God On that opprobrious hill ; and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom , 3 — Tophet thence And black Gehenna called , —the type of Hell . Next ...
... heart Of Solomon he led , by fraud , to build His temple right against the temple of God On that opprobrious hill ; and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom , 3 — Tophet thence And black Gehenna called , —the type of Hell . Next ...
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... heart , though large , Beguiled by fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . THAMMUZ came next behind , British islands even , its traces can be clearly made out in superstitions that have scarcely yet vanished , while the name of the ...
... heart , though large , Beguiled by fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . THAMMUZ came next behind , British islands even , its traces can be clearly made out in superstitions that have scarcely yet vanished , while the name of the ...
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... hearts , and influences the conduct of not a few . If he boasts of no temple , he is not less honoured , or less influential , enshrined as a household god in the recesses of the heart . The most profligate and abandoned persons are ...
... hearts , and influences the conduct of not a few . If he boasts of no temple , he is not less honoured , or less influential , enshrined as a household god in the recesses of the heart . The most profligate and abandoned persons are ...
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Adam ancient angels appeared arms beast behold bring called cloud Compare created creatures dark death deep delight described divine Earth evil expression eyes fair fall Father fear fell fire force fruit give given glory gods hand happy hast hath head heard heart Heaven Hell hill hope human king Latin leave less light live looks lost meaning Milton mind morn move nature never night once pain Paradise passed perhaps reason receive reign replied rest rising round Satan seat seemed seen sense serpent shape side sight soon sound spake spirits stand stood sweet taste thee thence things thou thought throne till tree turned virtue voice wide winds wings wonder
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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...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained, with notes by J. Edmondston |
| Author | John Milton |
| Editor | J. Edmondston |
| Published | 1854 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | Aug 7, 2006 |
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