Le paradis perdu, Volume 1Pourrat frères, 1837 - 495 pages |
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... hill u Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God : I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues Things ...
... hill u Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God : I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues Things ...
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... hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna , whose combustible And fuel'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublimed with mineral fury , aid the winds , dz And leave a singed bottom all involved : With stench and ...
... hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of thundering Etna , whose combustible And fuel'd entrails thence conceiving fire , Sublimed with mineral fury , aid the winds , dz And leave a singed bottom all involved : With stench and ...
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... hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral , were but a wand , He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle ; not like those steps On heaven's azure : and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides , vaulted with fire ...
... hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral , were but a wand , He walk'd with to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle ; not like those steps On heaven's azure : and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides , vaulted with fire ...
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... hill ; and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom , Tophel thence And black Gehenna call'd , the type of hell . Next Chemos , the obscene dread of Moab's sons , From Aroar to Nebo , and the wild . Ces chefs furent ceux qui ...
... hill ; and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom , Tophel thence And black Gehenna call'd , the type of hell . Next Chemos , the obscene dread of Moab's sons , From Aroar to Nebo , and the wild . Ces chefs furent ceux qui ...
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... hill of scandal , by the grove Of Moloch homicide , lust hard by hate ; Till good Josiah drove them thence to hell . With these came they , who , from the bordering flood Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts Ægypt from Syrian ground ...
... hill of scandal , by the grove Of Moloch homicide , lust hard by hate ; Till good Josiah drove them thence to hell . With these came they , who , from the bordering flood Of old Euphrates to the brook that parts Ægypt from Syrian ground ...
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Adam Almighty angels anges another world arms behold bliss bounds bright bring call'd Chaos ciel clouds created créatures dark darkness death deep DIEU divine earth envy equal Esprits eternal ethereal evil extol Father fear fell fiend find fire firmament first forth found free full gates glory gods gold good grace great hand happy hast hath head heaven heavenly hell high hill his enemy his punishment hope infernal King know l'Enfer l'homme less light look lost love made mankind Milton mind night nuit o'er offspring once Paradise pass'd perhaps power powers praise reign round Satan scorn seat seem'd seest shade shape shone side sight soon spake spirits stand state stood sweet taste terre their thence things thither thou though thoughts Thrice throne thus thyself Tree of Knowledge trône Uriel whence whom wide winds wings words works world worse
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Page 322 - On earth, join all ye creatures to extol Him first, Him last, Him midst, and without end.
Page 272 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds...
Page 72 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 18 - As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist. If then his providence Out of our evil seek to bring forth good, Our labour must be to pervert that end, And out of good still to find means of evil...
Page 164 - Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 246 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 10 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 162 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 212 - For neither man nor angel can discern Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks Invisible, except to God alone, By his permissive will, through heaven and earth : And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems...
Page 228 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell ; myself am hell ; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide ; To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.