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... bless'd his maw Destined to that good hour : No less rejoiced His mother bad , and thus bespake her sire : The key of this infernal pit by due , And by command of Heaven's all - powerful King , I keep ; by him forbidden to unlock These ...
... bless'd his maw Destined to that good hour : No less rejoiced His mother bad , and thus bespake her sire : The key of this infernal pit by due , And by command of Heaven's all - powerful King , I keep ; by him forbidden to unlock These ...
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... bless'd . For should Man finally be lost ? should Man , Thy creature late so loved , thy youngest son , Fall circumvented thus by fraud , though join'd With his own folly ? That be from thee far , That far be from thee , Father , who ...
... bless'd . For should Man finally be lost ? should Man , Thy creature late so loved , thy youngest son , Fall circumvented thus by fraud , though join'd With his own folly ? That be from thee far , That far be from thee , Father , who ...
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... bless'd voices , uttering joy , Heaven rung With jubilee , and loud Hosannas fill'd The eternal regions : Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow , and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with ...
... bless'd voices , uttering joy , Heaven rung With jubilee , and loud Hosannas fill'd The eternal regions : Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow , and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with ...
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... bless'd ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course , and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles : So entertain'd those odorous sweets the Fiend , Who came their bane ; though with them better pleased ...
... bless'd ; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course , and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles : So entertain'd those odorous sweets the Fiend , Who came their bane ; though with them better pleased ...
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... Bless'd pair ! and O ! yet happiest , if ye seek No happier state , and know to know no more . Now had night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault , And from their ivory port the Cherubim , Forth ...
... Bless'd pair ! and O ! yet happiest , if ye seek No happier state , and know to know no more . Now had night measured with her shadowy cone Half way up hill this vast sublunar vault , And from their ivory port the Cherubim , Forth ...
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Abdiel Adam Almighty Angel answer'd appear'd Archangel arm'd arms aught beast Beelzebub behold Belial bless'd bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud creatures dark days of Heaven death deep delight divine dreadful dwell earth eternal etherial evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith Father fear fierce fire fix'd flaming flowers fruit gates glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell highth hill Ithuriel join'd King lest light live mankind Messiah nigh night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace praise reign replied return'd round sapience Satan scaped seat seem'd Seraph Serpent shalt sight soon sovran spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree turn'd vex'd voice whence wings wonder Zephon
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Page 50 - 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 2 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 49 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, 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...
Page 25 - Sit unpolluted, and the ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope Is flat despair; we must exasperate The almighty victor to spend all his rage; And that must end us, that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid...
Page 4 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost — the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome.
Page 23 - The way seems difficult, and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe! Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat ; descent and fall To us is adverse.
Page 81 - Return, fair Eve : Whom fliest thou ? Whom thou fliest, of him thou art, His flesh, his bone; to give thee being I lent Out of my side to thee, nearest my heart, Substantial life, to have thee by my side Henceforth an individual solace dear: Part of my soul I seek thee, and thee claim My other half.' With that thy gentle hand Seized mine; I yielded, and from that time see How beauty is excelled by manly grace And wisdom, which alone is truly fair.
Page 198 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat ! Earth felt the wound ; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 85 - Fair consort, the hour Of night and all things now retired to rest Mind us of like repose, since GOD hath set Labour and rest, as day and night, to men Successive, and the timely dew of sleep Now falling with soft slumbrous weight inclines Our eyelids : other creatures all day long Rove idle, unemploy'd, and less need rest: Man hath his daily work of body...
Page 234 - More miserable. Both have sinn'd, but thou Against God only, I against God and thee, And to the place of judgment will return, There with my cries importune Heaven, that all The sentence, from thy head removed, may light On me, sole cause to thee of all this woe,. Me, me only, just object of his ire!