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... thee more , Thy King and Lord ? Back to thy punishment , False fugitive , and to thy speed add wings , Least with a whip of Scorpions I pursue Thy lingring , or with one stroke of this Dart Strange horror seise thee , and pangs unfelt ...
... thee more , Thy King and Lord ? Back to thy punishment , False fugitive , and to thy speed add wings , Least with a whip of Scorpions I pursue Thy lingring , or with one stroke of this Dart Strange horror seise thee , and pangs unfelt ...
Page 52
... thee ordain'd bis drudge , to execute What e're his wrath , which he calls Justice , bids , His wrath which one day ... thee yet by deeds What it intends ; till first I know of thee , What thing thou art , thus double - form'd , and why ...
... thee ordain'd bis drudge , to execute What e're his wrath , which he calls Justice , bids , His wrath which one day ... thee yet by deeds What it intends ; till first I know of thee , What thing thou art , thus double - form'd , and why ...
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... thee chiefly , who full oft Thy self in me thy perfect image viewing Becam❜st enamour'd , and such joy thou took'st With me in secret , that my womb conceiv'd A growing burden . Mean while Warr arose , And fields were fought in Heav'n ...
... thee chiefly , who full oft Thy self in me thy perfect image viewing Becam❜st enamour'd , and such joy thou took'st With me in secret , that my womb conceiv'd A growing burden . Mean while Warr arose , And fields were fought in Heav'n ...
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... thee , shun His deadly arrow ; neither vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright Arms , Though temper'd heav'nly , for that mortal dint , Save he who reigns above , none can resist . She finish'd , and the suttle Fiend his lore ...
... thee , shun His deadly arrow ; neither vainly hope To be invulnerable in those bright Arms , Though temper'd heav'nly , for that mortal dint , Save he who reigns above , none can resist . She finish'd , and the suttle Fiend his lore ...
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... thee unblam'd ? since God is light , And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from Eternitie , dwelt then in thee , Bright effluence of bright essence increate . Or bear'st thou rather pure Ethereal Stream , Whose Fountain who shall ...
... thee unblam'd ? since God is light , And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from Eternitie , dwelt then in thee , Bright effluence of bright essence increate . Or bear'st thou rather pure Ethereal Stream , Whose Fountain who shall ...
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Adam ADAM AND EVE Almightie Angel appeer Arms band bast bath Battel Beast behold bliss Boston series brest burning Lake call'd Cherube Cherubim Cloud created Creatures dark dayes Death deep delight Divine dreadful dwell Earth Eevning Eternal evil eyes fair Faire Angel Faith fall'n farr Father fear fierce fire Flours Fruit Gate giv'n Glorie Gods grace happie Hath Heav'n Heav'nly Hell Hill Ithuriel King LAZAR HOUSE light live lost Love Mankind Michael Night o're pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pleas'd rais'd RAPHAEL Reign repli'd round Sapience Satan seat seemd Serpent shalt sight Skie soon spake Spirits Staind Starrs stood Supream sweet taste thee thence thine things thir thither thou hast thoughts Throne Tree turnd vertue wandring Warr whence wings World wrauth yeild Zephon
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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.