Paradise Lost: In Twelve PartsPhillips, Sampson, & Company, 1849 - 582 pages |
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... guilt , one crime , 970 If any be , of tasting this fair fruit ; Whose virtue ( for of good still good proceeds , Direct , or by occasion ) hath presented This happy trial of thy love , which else So eminently never had been known ? 975 ...
... guilt , one crime , 970 If any be , of tasting this fair fruit ; Whose virtue ( for of good still good proceeds , Direct , or by occasion ) hath presented This happy trial of thy love , which else So eminently never had been known ? 975 ...
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... guilt the seal , The solace of their sin ; till dewy sleep Oppress'd them , wearied with their amorous play . Soon as the force of that fallacious fruit , That with exhilarating vapour bland 1040 1045 1050 About their spirits had play'd ...
... guilt the seal , The solace of their sin ; till dewy sleep Oppress'd them , wearied with their amorous play . Soon as the force of that fallacious fruit , That with exhilarating vapour bland 1040 1045 1050 About their spirits had play'd ...
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... their waist ; vain covering , if to hide Their guilt and dreaded sh ime ! O , how unlike To that first naked glory ! Such of late 1100 1105 1110 Columbus found the American , so girt With feather'd cincture 218 B. IZ PARADISE LOST .
... their waist ; vain covering , if to hide Their guilt and dreaded sh ime ! O , how unlike To that first naked glory ! Such of late 1100 1105 1110 Columbus found the American , so girt With feather'd cincture 218 B. IZ PARADISE LOST .
Page 224
... guilt , And shame , and perturbation , and despair , Anger , and obstinacy , and hate , and guile . Whence Adam , faltering long , thus answer'd brief : I heard thee in the garden , and of thy voice Afraid , being naked , hid myself ...
... guilt , And shame , and perturbation , and despair , Anger , and obstinacy , and hate , and guile . Whence Adam , faltering long , thus answer'd brief : I heard thee in the garden , and of thy voice Afraid , being naked , hid myself ...
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... guilt on him who made him instrument Of mischief , and polluted from the end Of his creation ; justly then accursed , As vitiated in nature : More to know Concern'd not man ( since he no further knew , ) 170 Nor alter'd his offence ...
... guilt on him who made him instrument Of mischief , and polluted from the end Of his creation ; justly then accursed , As vitiated in nature : More to know Concern'd not man ( since he no further knew , ) 170 Nor alter'd his offence ...
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Adam adore Almighty ambrosial Angels Archangel art thou Beelzebub behold Belial bless'd bliss breast burning lake call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud dark days of Heaven death deep Deity delight divine dread dust dwell earth eternal ethereal evil fair fate Father fear fire flame fruit glorious glory Godhead Gods guilt happy hast hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell hope hour human immortal King light live Lorenzo lost man's mankind mind mortal Nature Nature's night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace pleasure praise pride proud Reason reign rise round sapience Satan scape scene seem'd Seraph shade sight skies smile song soon soul spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence thine things thou thought throne thunder thyself truth turn'd vex'd virtue whence wing wisdom wise wonder
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Page 19 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, 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 11 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 12 - Princes, potentates, Warriors, the flower of heaven, once yours, now lost, If such astonishment as this can seize Eternal spirits; or have ye chosen this place After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue, for the ease you find To slumber here, as in the vales of heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To...
Page 50 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train: But neither breath of morn, when she ascends...
Page 40 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade 245 Imbrown'd the noontide bowers : Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm.
Page 176 - But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 250 - Henceforth I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 12 - Waved round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile...