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... combustion , down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire , Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms . A. Nine times the space that measures day and night 2 [ v . 21 . PARADISE LOST .
... combustion , down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire , Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms . A. Nine times the space that measures day and night 2 [ v . 21 . PARADISE LOST .
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... fell ! There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , He soon discerns ; and , weltering by his side , One next himself in power , and next in crime v . 50. ] 3 BOOK I.
... fell ! There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , He soon discerns ; and , weltering by his side , One next himself in power , and next in crime v . 50. ] 3 BOOK I.
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... fire , Or do his errands in the gloomy deep ; What can it then avail , though yet we feel Strength undimish'd , or eternal being , To undergo eternal punishment ? Whereto with speedy words the Arch - Fiend replied . Fallen Cherub ! to ...
... fire , Or do his errands in the gloomy deep ; What can it then avail , though yet we feel Strength undimish'd , or eternal being , To undergo eternal punishment ? Whereto with speedy words the Arch - Fiend replied . Fallen Cherub ! to ...
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... fire , Or do his errands in the gloomy deep ; What can it then avail , though yet we feel Strength undimish'd , or eternal being , To undergo eternal punishment ? Whereto with speedy words the Arch - Fiend replied . Fallen Cherub ! to ...
... fire , Or do his errands in the gloomy deep ; What can it then avail , though yet we feel Strength undimish'd , or eternal being , To undergo eternal punishment ? Whereto with speedy words the Arch - Fiend replied . Fallen Cherub ! to ...
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... fire : And such appear'd in hue , as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna , whose combustible And fuell'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublim'd with ...
... fire : And such appear'd in hue , as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna , whose combustible And fuell'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublim'd with ...
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Abdiel Adam Adam and Eve Almighty Angel appear'd Arch-Angel arm'd arms ashes spring aught beast behold bliss bower burning lake call'd celestial Cherubim cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deeds deep delight didst divine dread dwell Earth eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fierce fire flaming flowers form'd fruit glory gods grace hand happy hast hate hath havock Heaven and Earth heavenly Hell highth hill join'd judg'd King lapsed powers lest light live lost mankind Messiah mortal night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace pleas'd quire racking torture rais'd reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd Seraph serpent shalt sight soon sovran spake Spirits stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thought throne thyself tree turn'd vex'd voice whence wings wonder
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Page 15 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 66 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good : by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Page 4 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest Mate With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes That sparkling blaz'd, his other Parts besides Prone on the Flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th...
Page 49 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 12 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 23 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success,* When he who most excels in fact of arms, In what he counsels and in what excels Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair And utter dissolution, as the scope Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.
Page 5 - Infernal World ! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater...
Page 5 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be ; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?. Here at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.