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... things , presenting Satan with his angels now falling into Hell , described here , not in the centre ( for Heaven and Earth may be supposed as yet not made , certainly not yet accursed ) , but in a place of utter darkness fitliest ...
... things , presenting Satan with his angels now falling into Hell , described here , not in the centre ( for Heaven and Earth may be supposed as yet not made , certainly not yet accursed ) , but in a place of utter darkness fitliest ...
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... Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . 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 ...
... Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme . 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 ...
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... ; yea , often placed Within his sanctuary itself their shrines , Abominations ; and with cursed things His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned , And with their darkness durst affront his light . First PARADISE LOST . 15.
... ; yea , often placed Within his sanctuary itself their shrines , Abominations ; and with cursed things His holy rites and solemn feasts profaned , And with their darkness durst affront his light . First PARADISE LOST . 15.
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... best Deserve the precious bane . And here let those , Who boast in mortal things , and wondering tell Of Babel , and the works of Memphian kings , Learn how their greatest monuments of fame , And strength PARADISE LOST . 23 23.
... best Deserve the precious bane . And here let those , Who boast in mortal things , and wondering tell Of Babel , and the works of Memphian kings , Learn how their greatest monuments of fame , And strength PARADISE LOST . 23 23.
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... things at one view ? He from Heaven's highth All these our motions vain sees and derides ; Not more almighty to resist our might Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles . Shall we then live thus vile , the race of Heaven Thus ...
... things at one view ? He from Heaven's highth All these our motions vain sees and derides ; Not more almighty to resist our might Than wise to frustrate all our plots and wiles . Shall we then live thus vile , the race of Heaven Thus ...
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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.