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... stood , and call'd His legions , Angel forms , who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks , In Vallambrosa , where the Etrurian shades , High overarch'd , imbower ; or scatter'd sedge Afloat , when with fierce ...
... stood , and call'd His legions , Angel forms , who lay entranced Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks , In Vallambrosa , where the Etrurian shades , High overarch'd , imbower ; or scatter'd sedge Afloat , when with fierce ...
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... stood on the bare strand , While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof . The chief were those , who from the pit of Hell Roaming to seek their prey on earth , durst fix Their seats long after next the seat of God , Their altars by his ...
... stood on the bare strand , While the promiscuous crowd stood yet aloof . The chief were those , who from the pit of Hell Roaming to seek their prey on earth , durst fix Their seats long after next the seat of God , Their altars by his ...
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... stood Her temple on the offensive mountain , built By that uxorious king , whose heart , though large , Beguiled by fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian ...
... stood Her temple on the offensive mountain , built By that uxorious king , whose heart , though large , Beguiled by fair idolatresses , fell To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian ...
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... stood Or altar smoked : yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars , when the priest Turns atheist , as did Eli's sons , who fill'd With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he also reigns , And in luxurious ...
... stood Or altar smoked : yet who more oft than he In temples and at altars , when the priest Turns atheist , as did Eli's sons , who fill'd With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he also reigns , And in luxurious ...
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... Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun , new risen , Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of its ...
... Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Archangel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun , new risen , Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of its ...
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Abdiel Adam Almighty Angels answer'd appear'd Archangel arm'd arms aught beast behold bless'd bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deep delight didst 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 heart Heaven heavenly Hell highth hill Ithuriel join'd King lest light live lost mankind Messiah mix'd night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace reign replied return'd round sapience Satan scape 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 Uriel vex'd voice whence wings wonder Zephon
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Page 208 - 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 41 - 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 eloquence the soul, song charms the sense) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page 30 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success,* When he who most excels in fact of arms, In what he counsels and in what excels Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair And utter dissolution, as the scope Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.
Page 34 - Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence ; and what can...
Page 29 - O'er heaven's high towers to force resistless way, Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the torturer ; when, to meet the noise Of his almighty engine, he shall hear Infernal thunder, and for lightning see Black fire and horror shot with equal rage. Among his angels ; and his throne itself Mix'd with Tartarean sulphur and strange fire, His own invented torments.
Page 183 - O'er other creatures. Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best. All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded: wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows.
Page 6 - Before all temples th' 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: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 106 - 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 55 - 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 infinite.
Page 56 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.