The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorBooksellers, 1829 - 375 pages |
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... virtue , for the ease you find To slumber here , as in the vales of heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To adore the Conqueror ? who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood With scatter'd arms and ensigns ; till ...
... virtue , for the ease you find To slumber here , as in the vales of heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To adore the Conqueror ? who now beholds Cherub and seraph rolling in the flood With scatter'd arms and ensigns ; till ...
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... virtues ! or these titles now [ heaven , Must we renounce , and changing style , be call'd Princes of hell ? for so the popular vote Inclines here to continue , and build up here A growing empire ? doubtless , while we dream , And know ...
... virtues ! or these titles now [ heaven , Must we renounce , and changing style , be call'd Princes of hell ? for so the popular vote Inclines here to continue , and build up here A growing empire ? doubtless , while we dream , And know ...
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... virtue ; lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth , which glory excites , Or close ambition , varnish'd o'er with zeal . ) Thus they their doubtful consultations dark Ended , rejoicing in their matchless chief ! As when ...
... virtue ; lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth , which glory excites , Or close ambition , varnish'd o'er with zeal . ) Thus they their doubtful consultations dark Ended , rejoicing in their matchless chief ! As when ...
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... virtue ; lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth , which glory excites , Or close ambition , varnish'd o'er with zeal . ) Thus they their doubtful consultations dark Ended , rejoicing in their matchless chief ! As when ...
... virtue ; lest bad men should boast Their specious deeds on earth , which glory excites , Or close ambition , varnish'd o'er with zeal . ) Thus they their doubtful consultations dark Ended , rejoicing in their matchless chief ! As when ...
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... virtue should inthral to force or chance . Their song was partial ; but the harmony ( What could it less when spirits immortal sing ! ) Suspended hell , and took with ravishment The thronging audience . In discourse more sweet ( For ...
... virtue should inthral to force or chance . Their song was partial ; but the harmony ( What could it less when spirits immortal sing ! ) Suspended hell , and took with ravishment The thronging audience . In discourse more sweet ( For ...
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Adam angels answer'd appear'd archangel arm'd arms Assyria beast behold Belial bliss bright burning lake call'd celestial cherub cherubim cloud creatures dark death deeds deep delight divine dread dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair Fair angel Father fear fell fiend fierce fire fix'd fruit glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart heaven heavenly hell hill Ithuriel join'd King less lest light live Lord lost mankind Messiah nigh night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAINED pass'd pleas'd praise rais'd reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd seraph serpent shade shalt sight Son of God soon spake spirits stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou art thou hast thoughts throne thyself tree turn'd vex'd victorious bands virtue voice whence winds wings Zephon
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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 313 - 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 83 - 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 123 - 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 204 - 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 263 - 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 140 - 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 152 - 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.