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... New rubb'd with balm , expatiate , and confer Their state affairs : so thick the aery crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till , the signal giv'n , Behold a wonder ! they , but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons ...
... New rubb'd with balm , expatiate , and confer Their state affairs : so thick the aery crowd Swarm'd and were straiten'd ; till , the signal giv'n , Behold a wonder ! they , but now who seem'd In bigness to surpass earth's giant sons ...
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On th ' other side up rose Belial , in act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd For dignity compos'd and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd manna , and could make ...
On th ' other side up rose Belial , in act more graceful and humane ; A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd For dignity compos'd and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropp'd manna , and could make ...
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What , when we fled amain , pursu'd and struck With heaven's afflicting thunder , and besought The deep to shelter us ? this hell then seem'd A refuge from those wounds . Or when we lay Chain'd on the burning lake ? that sure was worse ...
What , when we fled amain , pursu'd and struck With heaven's afflicting thunder , and besought The deep to shelter us ? this hell then seem'd A refuge from those wounds . Or when we lay Chain'd on the burning lake ? that sure was worse ...
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Which when Beelzebub perceiv'd , than whom , Satan except , none higher sat , with grave Aspect he rose , and in his rising seem'd A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in ...
Which when Beelzebub perceiv'd , than whom , Satan except , none higher sat , with grave Aspect he rose , and in his rising seem'd A pillar of state : deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in ...
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The Stygian council thus dissolv'd ; and forth In order came the grand infernal peers ; Midst came their mighty paramount , and seem'd Alone th ' antagonist of heav'n , nor less Than hell's dread emperor , with pomp supreme And God ...
The Stygian council thus dissolv'd ; and forth In order came the grand infernal peers ; Midst came their mighty paramount , and seem'd Alone th ' antagonist of heav'n , nor less Than hell's dread emperor , with pomp supreme And God ...
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 1 The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, John Mitford |
| Author | John Mitford |
| Publisher | Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1838 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Mar 5, 2009 |
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