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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... wide Within her ample spaces , o're the smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof , Pendant by fubtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing creffets , fed With Naptha and Asphaltus , yielded light As from a sky . The hafty ...
... wide Within her ample spaces , o're the smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof , Pendant by fubtle magic many a row Of starry lamps and blazing creffets , fed With Naptha and Asphaltus , yielded light As from a sky . The hafty ...
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... wide , but chief the spacious hall ( Though like a cover'd field , where champions bold Wont ride in arm'd , and at the Soldan's chair Defi'd the beft of Panim chivalry To mortal combat or career with lance ) Thick fwarm'd , both on the ...
... wide , but chief the spacious hall ( Though like a cover'd field , where champions bold Wont ride in arm'd , and at the Soldan's chair Defi'd the beft of Panim chivalry To mortal combat or career with lance ) Thick fwarm'd , both on the ...
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... wide into the realm of night , Scorning furprize . Or could we break our way By force , and at our heels all hell fhould rife With blackeft insurrection , to confound Heav'n's pureft light , yet our great enemy All incorruptible would ...
... wide into the realm of night , Scorning furprize . Or could we break our way By force , and at our heels all hell fhould rife With blackeft insurrection , to confound Heav'n's pureft light , yet our great enemy All incorruptible would ...
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... Wide - gaping , and with utter loss of being Threatens him , plung'd in that abortive gulph . If thence he scape into whatever world , O unknown region , what remains him less Than unknown dangers and as hard escape . But I fhould ill ...
... Wide - gaping , and with utter loss of being Threatens him , plung'd in that abortive gulph . If thence he scape into whatever world , O unknown region , what remains him less Than unknown dangers and as hard escape . But I fhould ill ...
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... wide , and all the hoft of hell With deafning fhout , return'd them loud acclaim . Thence more at ease their minds and fomewhat rais'd By false presumptuous hope , the ranged powers Difband , and wandring , each his several way Purfues ...
... wide , and all the hoft of hell With deafning fhout , return'd them loud acclaim . Thence more at ease their minds and fomewhat rais'd By false presumptuous hope , the ranged powers Difband , and wandring , each his several way Purfues ...
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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.