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... hope yet of regaining Heaven , but tells them lastly of a new world and new kind of creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in Heaven ; for , that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the ...
... hope yet of regaining Heaven , but tells them lastly of a new world and new kind of creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in Heaven ; for , that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the ...
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... rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed 43 51 60 68 With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed : Such place Eternal BOOK I. ] 5 PARADISE LOST .
... rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed 43 51 60 68 With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed : Such place Eternal BOOK I. ] 5 PARADISE LOST .
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... hope And hazard in the glorious enterprize , Joined with me once , now misery hath joined In equal ruin ! Into what pit thou seest , From what highth fallen ; so much the stronger proved He with his thunder : and till then who knew The ...
... hope And hazard in the glorious enterprize , Joined with me once , now misery hath joined In equal ruin ! Into what pit thou seest , From what highth fallen ; so much the stronger proved He with his thunder : and till then who knew The ...
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... cannot fail ; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse , in foresight much advanced , We may with more successful hope resolve 103 112 120 To wage , by force or guile , eternal war воок г. ] 7 PARADISE LOST .
... cannot fail ; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse , in foresight much advanced , We may with more successful hope resolve 103 112 120 To wage , by force or guile , eternal war воок г. ] 7 PARADISE LOST .
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... hope ; If not , what resolution from despair . Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head up - lift above the wave , and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood , extended long and large , Lay ...
... hope ; If not , what resolution from despair . Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head up - lift above the wave , and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood , extended long and large , Lay ...
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Abdiel Adam adore Almighty angelick Angels Arch-Angel arms battle Beelzebub behold Belial bliss burning lake celestial chariot Cherub Cherubim cloud creatures dark deeds deep delight Designed & Engraved divine dread earth equal eternal ethereal evil fair Fair Angel fall Father fear fell Fiend fierce fiery fire flames flowers gates glory Gods gold golden grace hand happy hast hate hath Heaven heavenly Hell highth hill honour horrid horrour host infernal Ithuriel King legions less light Messiah Moloch night o'er once ordained pain PARADISE LOST praise rage reign revenge round Satan Satan return scaped seat seemed Seraph Seraphim shade shalt shape sight soon sovran spake Spirits stood sweet taste terrour Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself Uriel wall of Heaven Weening whence winds wings wonder Zephon
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Page 138 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 13 - Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 162 - Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky, or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 139 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others...
Page 136 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 114 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 81 - Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun, Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising World of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite...
Page 138 - When first on this delightful Land he spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful Evening mild...
Page 83 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 161 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, , Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.