Paradise lost, a facs. reprod. of the 1st ed., with an intr. by D. Masson1877 |
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Page xii
... fhall be found the one form of Simmons's note or the other . All fuch copies , however , differ from preceding copies in having the fourteen pages of prefatory profe matter inferted between the title - page , whatever form it takes ...
... fhall be found the one form of Simmons's note or the other . All fuch copies , however , differ from preceding copies in having the fourteen pages of prefatory profe matter inferted between the title - page , whatever form it takes ...
Page xxix
... fhall be right : fardest from him is best Whom reafon hath equald , force hath made fu- Above his equals . Farewel happy Fields ( pream Where Joy for ever dwells : Hail horrours , hail Infernal world , and thou profoundest Hell Receive ...
... fhall be right : fardest from him is best Whom reafon hath equald , force hath made fu- Above his equals . Farewel happy Fields ( pream Where Joy for ever dwells : Hail horrours , hail Infernal world , and thou profoundest Hell Receive ...
Page xli
... that he ere long Intended to create , and therein plant A generation , whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven : Thither , 630 640 650 Thither , if but to prie , fhall be perhaps Paradife loft . Book I.
... that he ere long Intended to create , and therein plant A generation , whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven : Thither , 630 640 650 Thither , if but to prie , fhall be perhaps Paradife loft . Book I.
Page xlii
John Milton. Thither , if but to prie , fhall be perhaps Our first eruption , thither or elsewhere : For this Infernal Pit fhall never hold Cæleftial Spirits in Bondage , nor th ' Abysse Long under darkness cover . But these thoughts 660 ...
John Milton. Thither , if but to prie , fhall be perhaps Our first eruption , thither or elsewhere : For this Infernal Pit fhall never hold Cæleftial Spirits in Bondage , nor th ' Abysse Long under darkness cover . But these thoughts 660 ...
Page xlix
... fhall hear Infernal Thunder , and for Lightning fee Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his Angels ; and his Throne it felf Mixt with Tartarcan Sulphur , and ftrange - fire , His own invented Torments . But perhaps The way ...
... fhall hear Infernal Thunder , and for Lightning fee Black fire and horror shot with equal rage Among his Angels ; and his Throne it felf Mixt with Tartarcan Sulphur , and ftrange - fire , His own invented Torments . But perhaps The way ...
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Page xc - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy Sphere, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Page lxv - Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page cxv - Know ye not then, said Satan fill'd with scorn, Know ye not me ? ye knew me once no mate For you, there sitting where ye durst not soar; Not to know me argues yourselves unknown, The lowest of your throng; or if ye know, Why ask ye, and superfluous begin Your message, like to end as much in vain ? To whom thus Zephon, answering scorn with scorn.
Page 19 - Hear, all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers; Hear my decree, which unrevoked shall stand; This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son, and on this holy hill Him have anointed, whom ye now behold At my right hand; your head I him appoint; And by myself have sworn, to him shall bow All knees in heaven, and shall confess him Lord.
Page civ - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes; but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays...
Page xxi - 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 lxx - By sin to foul exorbitant desires: Upheld by me, yet once more he shall stand On even ground against his mortal foe, By me upheld, that he may know how frail...
Page lxxvi - The world shall burn, and from her ashes spring New heaven and earth, wherein the just shall dwell, And, after all their tribulations long, See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing, and fair truth...