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... that fixt mind And high disdain , from sence of injur'd merit , That with the mightiest rais'd me to contend , And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of Spirits arm'd That durst dislike his reign 4 Paradise Lost.
... that fixt mind And high disdain , from sence of injur'd merit , That with the mightiest rais'd me to contend , And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of Spirits arm'd That durst dislike his reign 4 Paradise Lost.
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... reign , and me preferring , His utmost power with adverse power oppos'd In dubious Battel on the Plains of Heav'n , And shook his throne . What though the field be lost ? All is not lost ; the unconquerable Will , And Study of revenge ...
... reign , and me preferring , His utmost power with adverse power oppos'd In dubious Battel on the Plains of Heav'n , And shook his throne . What though the field be lost ? All is not lost ; the unconquerable Will , And Study of revenge ...
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... reign secure , and in my choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell , then serve in Heav'n . But wherefore let we then our faithful friends , Th ' associates and copartners of our loss Lye thus astonisht ...
... reign secure , and in my choyce To reign is worth ambition though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell , then serve in Heav'n . But wherefore let we then our faithful friends , Th ' associates and copartners of our loss Lye thus astonisht ...
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... Reigns And in luxurious Cities , where the noyse Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Tours , And injury and outrage : And when Night Darkens the Streets , then wander forth the Sons Of Belial , flown with insolence and wine . Witness ...
... Reigns And in luxurious Cities , where the noyse Of riot ascends above thir loftiest Tours , And injury and outrage : And when Night Darkens the Streets , then wander forth the Sons Of Belial , flown with insolence and wine . Witness ...
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... reign'd : these first in Creet And Ida known , thence on the Snowy top Of cold Olympus rul'd the middle Air Thir bigbest Heav'n ; or on the Delphian Cliff , Or in Dodona , and through all the bounds Of Doric Land ; or who with Saturn ...
... reign'd : these first in Creet And Ida known , thence on the Snowy top Of cold Olympus rul'd the middle Air Thir bigbest Heav'n ; or on the Delphian Cliff , Or in Dodona , and through all the bounds Of Doric Land ; or who with Saturn ...
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Page 255 - To live again in these wild woods forlorn ? Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 21 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 110 - 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.
Page 335 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Page 10 - Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 89 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd 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 151 - Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 50 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.