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... stood and call'd His Legions , Angel Forms , who lay intrans't Thick as Autumnal Leaves that Strow the Brooks In Vallombrosa , where th ' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr ; or scatterd sedge Afloat , when with fierce Winds Orion ...
... stood and call'd His Legions , Angel Forms , who lay intrans't Thick as Autumnal Leaves that Strow the Brooks In Vallombrosa , where th ' Etrurian shades High overarch't imbowr ; or scatterd sedge Afloat , when with fierce Winds Orion ...
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... stood Their great Commander ; Godlike shapes and forms Excelling human , Princely Dignities , And Powers that earst ... stood on the bare Strand , While the promiscuous croud Stood yet aloof ? The chief Book i 13.
... stood Their great Commander ; Godlike shapes and forms Excelling human , Princely Dignities , And Powers that earst ... stood on the bare Strand , While the promiscuous croud Stood yet aloof ? The chief Book i 13.
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John Milton Henry Charles Beeching. While the promiscuous croud 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 ...
John Milton Henry Charles Beeching. While the promiscuous croud 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 ...
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... Came Astoreth , whom the Phoenicians call'd Astarte , Queen of Heav'n , with crescent Horns ; To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon Sidonian Virgins paid their Vows and Songs , In Sion also not unsung , where stood Her Temple Book i IS.
... Came Astoreth , whom the Phoenicians call'd Astarte , Queen of Heav'n , with crescent Horns ; To whose bright Image nightly by the Moon Sidonian Virgins paid their Vows and Songs , In Sion also not unsung , where stood Her Temple Book i IS.
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John Milton Henry Charles Beeching. In Sion also not unsung , where stood Her Temple on th ' offensive Mountain , built By that uxorious King , whose heart though large , Beguil'd by fair Idolatresses , fell To Idols foul . Thammuz came ...
John Milton Henry Charles Beeching. In Sion also not unsung , where stood Her Temple on th ' offensive Mountain , built By that uxorious King , whose heart though large , Beguil'd by fair Idolatresses , fell To Idols foul . Thammuz came ...
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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.