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Page xxiii
... turn my attention to the second or domestic species . As this seemed to involve three material questions , the condi- tions of the conjugal tie , the education of the children , and the free publication of the thoughts , I made them ob ...
... turn my attention to the second or domestic species . As this seemed to involve three material questions , the condi- tions of the conjugal tie , the education of the children , and the free publication of the thoughts , I made them ob ...
Page xxv
... turns to the Creation of this World , in part to make up the loss caused by the defeat of the rebellious angels . In six days the Universe is created , and Man is placed in the Garden of Eden . All this precedes in time the opening of ...
... turns to the Creation of this World , in part to make up the loss caused by the defeat of the rebellious angels . In six days the Universe is created , and Man is placed in the Garden of Eden . All this precedes in time the opening of ...
Page xxxii
... turns it by degrees to the soul's essence , Till all be made immortal . But when lust , By unchaste looks , loose gestures , and foul talk , But most by lewd and lavish act of sin , Lets in defilement to the inward parts , ' Too long to ...
... turns it by degrees to the soul's essence , Till all be made immortal . But when lust , By unchaste looks , loose gestures , and foul talk , But most by lewd and lavish act of sin , Lets in defilement to the inward parts , ' Too long to ...
Page xxxvi
... turn to a consideration of another matter which will make these two books easier to us . To have really a good idea of the course of events , we must know some- thing of what in everyday language we might call " the lay of the land ...
... turn to a consideration of another matter which will make these two books easier to us . To have really a good idea of the course of events , we must know some- thing of what in everyday language we might call " the lay of the land ...
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... turns of expression , the elliptical syntax , the occasional ruggedness of grammar present a bar . Of almost everybody the extremely close- packed character of the style demands constant attention , and , on the whole , the poem is not ...
... turns of expression , the elliptical syntax , the occasional ruggedness of grammar present a bar . Of almost everybody the extremely close- packed character of the style demands constant attention , and , on the whole , the poem is not ...
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Page 5 - 20 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, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first—for Heaven hides nothing from thy view,
Page 64 - either—black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast 675 With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
Page 87 - 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 34 - Ransacked the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire 690 That riches grow in Hell: that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. And here let those
Page 14 - Infinite goodness, grace, and mercy, shewn On man by him seduced, but on himself Treble confusion, wrath, and vengeance poured. 220 Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature; on each hand the flames, Driven backwards, slope their pointing spires, and, rolled In billows, leave in the midst a horrid vale.
Page xxx - He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured.
Page 89 - With that twice battered god of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen and mother both, Now sits not girt with tapers holy shine ; The Lybic Hammon shrinks his horn ; In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thamuz mourn ; "And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread
Page 26 - For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast : and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment : 1 am the Lord.
Page xxxiii - The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel-vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state.
Page 73 - 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. 950