Paradise Lost: In Twelve PartsPhillips, Sampson, & Company, 1851 |
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... wings outspread Dovelike sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And madest 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 , And ...
... wings outspread Dovelike sat'st brooding on the vast abyss , And madest 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 , And ...
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... Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage , 175 Perhaps hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn , Or satiate fury , yield it from our Foe ...
... Wing'd with red lightning and impetuous rage , 175 Perhaps hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn , Or satiate fury , yield it from our Foe ...
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... wing ; as when men wont to watch On duty , sleeping found by whom they dread , Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake . Nor did they not perceive the evil plight 335 In which they were , nor the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their ...
... wing ; as when men wont to watch On duty , sleeping found by whom they dread , Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake . Nor did they not perceive the evil plight 335 In which they were , nor the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their ...
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... wing to wing , and half enclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute . Thrice he essay'd , and thrice , in spite of scorn , Tears , such as Angels weep , burst forth at last 620 Words , interwove with sighs , found ...
... wing to wing , and half enclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute . Thrice he essay'd , and thrice , in spite of scorn , Tears , such as Angels weep , burst forth at last 620 Words , interwove with sighs , found ...
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... wing'd with speed , A numerous brigade hasten'd : as when bands Of pioneers , with spade and pickaxe arm'd , Forerun the royal camp , to trench a field , Or cast a rampart . Mammon led them on , Mammon , the least erected Spirit that ...
... wing'd with speed , A numerous brigade hasten'd : as when bands Of pioneers , with spade and pickaxe arm'd , Forerun the royal camp , to trench a field , Or cast a rampart . Mammon led them on , Mammon , the least erected Spirit that ...
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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,