Paradise Lost: In Twelve PartsPhillips, Sampson, & Company, 1849 - 582 pages |
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... head uplift above the wave , and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood , extended long and large , Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size , Titanian , or ...
... head uplift above the wave , and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood , extended long and large , Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size , Titanian , or ...
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... head ; but that the will 210 And high permission of all - ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs ; That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation , while he sought Evil to others ; and , enraged , might ...
... head ; but that the will 210 And high permission of all - ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs ; That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation , while he sought Evil to others ; and , enraged , might ...
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In Twelve Parts John Milton. The heads and leaders thither haste where stood Their great Commander ; Godlike shapes , and forms Excelling hunan ; princely Dignities ; And Powers that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; 360 Though of their ...
In Twelve Parts John Milton. The heads and leaders thither haste where stood Their great Commander ; Godlike shapes , and forms Excelling hunan ; princely Dignities ; And Powers that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; 360 Though of their ...
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... heads as low Bow'd down in battle , sunk before the Of despicable foes . With these in troop Came Astoreth , whom the ... head and hands lopp'd off In his own temple , on the grunsel edge , Where he fell flat , and shamed his worshippers ...
... heads as low Bow'd down in battle , sunk before the Of despicable foes . With these in troop Came Astoreth , whom the ... head and hands lopp'd off In his own temple , on the grunsel edge , Where he fell flat , and shamed his worshippers ...
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... heads ; while we perhaps Designing or exhorting glorious war , Caught in a fiery tempest , shall be hur ! ' d Each on his rock transfix'd , the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds ; or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean , wrapp'd ...
... heads ; while we perhaps Designing or exhorting glorious war , Caught in a fiery tempest , shall be hur ! ' d Each on his rock transfix'd , the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds ; or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean , wrapp'd ...
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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...