The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorBooksellers, 1829 - 375 pages |
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... Belial came last , than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven , or more gross to love Vice for itself : to him no temple stood , Or altar smoked ; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars , when the priest Turns athiest ...
... Belial came last , than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven , or more gross to love Vice for itself : to him no temple stood , Or altar smoked ; yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars , when the priest Turns athiest ...
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... Belial , flown with insolence and wine . Witness the streets of Sodoin , and that night In Gibeah , when the hospitable door Exposed a matron to avoid worse rape . These were the prime in order and in might : The rest were long to tell ...
... Belial , flown with insolence and wine . Witness the streets of Sodoin , and that night In Gibeah , when the hospitable door Exposed a matron to avoid worse rape . These were the prime in order and in might : The rest were long to tell ...
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... Belial , in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd For dignity composed , and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna , and could make the worse appear The better ...
... Belial , in act more graceful and humane : A fairer person lost not heaven ; he seem'd For dignity composed , and high exploit : But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna , and could make the worse appear The better ...
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... Belial , with words clothed in reason's garb Counsell'd ignoble ease , and peaceful sloth , Not peace ; and after him thus Mammon spake : " Either to disenthrone the King of heaven We war , if war be best , or to regain Our own right ...
... Belial , with words clothed in reason's garb Counsell'd ignoble ease , and peaceful sloth , Not peace ; and after him thus Mammon spake : " Either to disenthrone the King of heaven We war , if war be best , or to regain Our own right ...
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... Belial in like gamesome mood : Leader ! the terms we sent were terms of weight , Of hard contents , and full of force urg'd home , Such as we might perceive amus'd them all , And stumbled many ; who receives them right , Had need from ...
... Belial in like gamesome mood : Leader ! the terms we sent were terms of weight , Of hard contents , and full of force urg'd home , Such as we might perceive amus'd them all , And stumbled many ; who receives them right , Had need from ...
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Page 35 - Hell-doom'd, and breath'st defiance here and scorn, Where I reign king, and, to enrage thee more, Thy king and lord? Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or, with one stroke of this dart, Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.
Page 315 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 85 - But know, that in the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief ; among these, fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, airy shapes, Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell when nature rests.
Page 16 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of 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 monarchs.
Page 125 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the muse defend Her son. So fail not thou, who thee implores; For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.
Page 206 - His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap ? There I should rest, And sleep secure...
Page 265 - And now by some strong motion I am led Into this wilderness, to what intent I learn not yet : perhaps I need not know ; For what concerns my knowledge God reveals.
Page 142 - Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes — perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven, And calculate the stars; how they will wield 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.
Page 4 - 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 Doubted his empire, that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath...
Page 154 - In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges ; hath his seat In reason, and is judicious ; is the scale By which to heavenly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure ; for which cause, Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.