Paradise Lost: In Twelve PartsPhillips, Sampson, & Company, 1851 |
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... glory above his peers , He trusted to have equal'd the Most High , 40 If he opposed ; and , with ambiticus aim Against the throne and monarchy of God , Raised impious war in Heaven , and battle proud , With vain attempt . Him the ...
... glory above his peers , He trusted to have equal'd the Most High , 40 If he opposed ; and , with ambiticus aim Against the throne and monarchy of God , Raised impious war in Heaven , and battle proud , With vain attempt . Him the ...
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... glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me . To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee , and deify his power , Who from the terror of this arm so late 110 Doubted his empire ; that were low indeed , That were an ignominy ...
... glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me . To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee , and deify his power , Who from the terror of this arm so late 110 Doubted his empire ; that were low indeed , That were an ignominy ...
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... glory extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our Conqueror ( whom I now Of force believe Almighty , since no less Than such could have o'erpower'd such force as ours ) Have left us this our spirit ...
... glory extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our Conqueror ( whom I now Of force believe Almighty , since no less Than such could have o'erpower'd such force as ours ) Have left us this our spirit ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... glory raised Above his fellows , with monarchal pride , Conscious of highest , worth , unmoved thus spake . O Progeny of Heaven , empyreal Thrones ! 430 With reason hath deep silence and demur Seized us , though undismay'd : Long is the ...
... glory raised Above his fellows , with monarchal pride , Conscious of highest , worth , unmoved thus spake . O Progeny of Heaven , empyreal Thrones ! 430 With reason hath deep silence and demur Seized us , though undismay'd : Long is the ...
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Adam Almighty ambition ambrosial Angels Archangel art thou beams behold beneath bless'd bliss blood divine breast burning lake call'd celestial Cherubim cloud dark days of Heaven death deep Deity delight divine dread dust dwell earth eternal ethereal evil fair fall fate Father fear fire flame fruit glorious glory Godhead Gods guilt happy hast hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell hope hour human immortal know'st labour light live Lorenzo man's mankind mind mortal Nature Nature's night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace pleasure praise pride proud Reason reign rise round sapience Satan scene seem'd Seraph shade shines sight skies smile song soon soul spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thou thought throne thyself truth turn'd vex'd virtue whence wing wisdom wise wonder
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Page 4 - it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first, for Heaven hides nothing from thy view, Nor the deep tract of Hell; say first, what
Page 150 - it divide The waters from the waters ; and God made The firmament, expanse of liquid, pure, Transparent, elemental air, diffused 265 In circuit to the uttermost convex Of this great round ; partition firm and sure, The waters underneath from those above Dividing : for as earth, so he the world Built on circumfluous waters calm, in wide
Page 81 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, 600 They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased: Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires: Hesperus, that led
Page 82 - conversing, I forget all time ; All seasons, and their change, all please alike. 640 Sweet is the breath of Morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit,
Page 25 - HIGH on a throne of royal stale, 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, Satan exalted sat, by merit raised 6 To that bad eminence : and, from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope, aspires Beyond thus high : insatiate to pursue
Page 200 - Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her Beat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost. Back to the thicket slunk The guilty Serpent; and well might; for Eve, Intent now wholly on her taste, nought else 785 Regarded ; such delight till then, as
Page 43 - cither ; black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell. And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast 075 With horrid strides ; Hell trembled as he strode.
Page 284 - plain ; then disappeared. 640 They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where
Page 8 - may henceforth most offend Our Enemy , our own loss how repair How overcome this dire calamity ; What reinforcement wo may gain from hope, 190 If not, what resolution from despair. Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts
Page 163 - quaint opinions wide Hereafter ; when they come to model Heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield M) The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances ; how gird the sphere With centric and eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and epicycle, orb in orb : Already by thy reasoning this I guess,