Paradise LostThompson and Thomas, 1901 - 311 pages |
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... gods and goddesses at their disposal were so humanized already in the imagination of their contemporaries , as to be little other than men and women . But it was not so with Milton . The angel forms in Scripture , indeed , are human ...
... gods and goddesses at their disposal were so humanized already in the imagination of their contemporaries , as to be little other than men and women . But it was not so with Milton . The angel forms in Scripture , indeed , are human ...
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... God , and drawing to his side many legions of angels , was , by the command of God , driven out of Heaven , with all his crew , into the great deep . Which action passed over , the Poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting ...
... God , and drawing to his side many legions of angels , was , by the command of God , driven out of Heaven , with all his crew , into the great deep . Which action passed over , the Poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting ...
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... God to men . Say first — for Heaven hides nothing from thy view , Nor the deep tract of Hell - say first , what cause Moved our grand parents , in that happy state , Favored of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and ...
... God to men . Say first — for Heaven hides nothing from thy view , Nor the deep tract of Hell - say first , what cause Moved our grand parents , in that happy state , Favored of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and ...
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... gods , And this empyreal substance , cannot fail ; Since , through experience of this great event , In arms not worse , in foresight much advanced , We may with more successful hope resolve To wage , by force or guile , eternal war ...
... gods , And this empyreal substance , cannot fail ; Since , through experience of this great event , In arms not worse , in foresight much advanced , We may with more successful hope resolve To wage , by force or guile , eternal war ...
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... gods and heavenly essences Can perish for the mind and spirit remain Invincible , and vigor soon returns , Though all our glory extinct , and happy state Here swallowed up in endless misery . But what if He our Conqueror - whom I now Of ...
... gods and heavenly essences Can perish for the mind and spirit remain Invincible , and vigor soon returns , Though all our glory extinct , and happy state Here swallowed up in endless misery . But what if He our Conqueror - whom I now Of ...
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