Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. According to the Author's Last Edition, in the Year 1674W. and W. Smith, P. Wilson, and T. Ewing, 1767 - 348 pages |
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Page 34
... nature , will receive Familiar the fierce heat , and void of pain ; This horror will grow mild , this darkness light , Befides what hope the never - ending flight Of future days may bring , what chance , what change Worth waiting ...
... nature , will receive Familiar the fierce heat , and void of pain ; This horror will grow mild , this darkness light , Befides what hope the never - ending flight Of future days may bring , what chance , what change Worth waiting ...
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... nature breeds Perverse , all monftrous , all prodigious things , Abominable , inutterable , and worse Then fables yet have feign'd , or fear conceiv'd , Gorgions and Hydra's , and Chimeras dire . Mean while the adversary of God and man ...
... nature breeds Perverse , all monftrous , all prodigious things , Abominable , inutterable , and worse Then fables yet have feign'd , or fear conceiv'd , Gorgions and Hydra's , and Chimeras dire . Mean while the adversary of God and man ...
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... nature , hold " Eternal Anarchie , amidft the noise Of endless wars , and by confusion ftand . For hot , cold , moist , and dry , four champions fierce Strive here for maistrie , and to battle bring Their embryon atoms ; they around the ...
... nature , hold " Eternal Anarchie , amidft the noise Of endless wars , and by confusion ftand . For hot , cold , moist , and dry , four champions fierce Strive here for maistrie , and to battle bring Their embryon atoms ; they around the ...
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... nature first begins Her fardeft verge , and Chaos to retire As from her utmost works a brok'n foe With tumult lefs and with lefs hoftile din , That Satan with less toil , and now with ease Wafts on the calmer wave by dubius lightAnd ...
... nature first begins Her fardeft verge , and Chaos to retire As from her utmost works a brok'n foe With tumult lefs and with lefs hoftile din , That Satan with less toil , and now with ease Wafts on the calmer wave by dubius lightAnd ...
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... nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd , And wisdom at one entrance quite fhut out . So much the rather thou celeftial light 7 Shine inward , and the mind through all her powere Irradiate , there plant eyes , all mist from thence Purge ...
... nature's works to me expung'd and ras'd , And wisdom at one entrance quite fhut out . So much the rather thou celeftial light 7 Shine inward , and the mind through all her powere Irradiate , there plant eyes , all mist from thence Purge ...
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Page 124 - 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 88 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Page 121 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 251 - Matter of scorn, not to be given the foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom; if death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of nature draw me to my own, My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
Page 44 - Typhoean rage more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind ; hell scarce holds the wild uproar.
Page 7 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 32 - Devoid of sense and motion? And who knows, Let this be good, whether our angry foe Can give it, or will ever? How he can Is doubtful; that he never will is sure.
Page 147 - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 208 - Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent: Tell me how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know...
Page 25 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.