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... Sovran , can dispose and bid What shall be right : farthest from him is best , Whom reason hath equalled , force hath made supreme Above his equals . Farewell , happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells ! Hail , horrours ! hail , 250 ...
... Sovran , can dispose and bid What shall be right : farthest from him is best , Whom reason hath equalled , force hath made supreme Above his equals . Farewell , happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells ! Hail , horrours ! hail , 250 ...
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... sovran power , with awful ceremony And trumpets ' sound , throughout the host proclaim A solemn council , forthwith to be held At Pandemonium ; the high capital Of Satan and his peers : their summons called band and squared regiment ...
... sovran power , with awful ceremony And trumpets ' sound , throughout the host proclaim A solemn council , forthwith to be held At Pandemonium ; the high capital Of Satan and his peers : their summons called band and squared regiment ...
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... Sovran , and his altar breathes Ambrosial odours and ambrosial flowers , Our servile offerings ? This must be our task In Heaven , this our delight ; how wearisome Eternity so spent , in worship paid To whom we hate ! Let us not then By ...
... Sovran , and his altar breathes Ambrosial odours and ambrosial flowers , Our servile offerings ? This must be our task In Heaven , this our delight ; how wearisome Eternity so spent , in worship paid To whom we hate ! Let us not then By ...
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... sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes , that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray , and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs , Or dim suffusion veiled . Yet not the more Cease I to wander ...
... sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes , that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray , and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs , Or dim suffusion veiled . Yet not the more Cease I to wander ...
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... that word which closed Thy sovran sentence , that Man should find grace ; For which both Heaven and earth shall high extol 121 129 138 146 Thy praises , with the innumerable sound Of hymns and 86 [ BOOK III . PARADISE LOST .
... that word which closed Thy sovran sentence , that Man should find grace ; For which both Heaven and earth shall high extol 121 129 138 146 Thy praises , with the innumerable sound Of hymns and 86 [ BOOK III . PARADISE LOST .
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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.