Paradise Lost: In Twelve PartsPhillips, Sampson, & Company, 1849 - 582 pages |
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... light ; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace 65 And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all but torture without end Still urges , and a ...
... light ; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace 65 And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes That comes to all but torture without end Still urges , and a ...
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... light ? Be it so ! since he , Who row is Sov'reign , can dispose and bid What shall be right : furthest from him is best , Whom reason hath equal'd , force hath made supreme Above his equals . ( Farewell , happy fields , Where joy for ...
... light ? Be it so ! since he , Who row is Sov'reign , can dispose and bid What shall be right : furthest from him is best , Whom reason hath equal'd , force hath made supreme Above his equals . ( Farewell , happy fields , Where joy for ...
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... light On the firm brinstone , and fill all the plain ; A multitude , like which the populous North Pour'd never from her frozen loirs , to pass Rhene or the Danaw , when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the South , and spread ...
... light On the firm brinstone , and fill all the plain ; A multitude , like which the populous North Pour'd never from her frozen loirs , to pass Rhene or the Danaw , when her barbarous sons Came like a deluge on the South , and spread ...
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... light . First , Moloch , horrid king , besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice , and parents ' tears ; Though , for the noise of drums and timbrels loud , 380 385 390 .. 396 Their children's cries unheard , that pass'd though 2 PARADISE ...
... light . First , Moloch , horrid king , besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice , and parents ' tears ; Though , for the noise of drums and timbrels loud , 380 385 390 .. 396 Their children's cries unheard , that pass'd though 2 PARADISE ...
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... light And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic , many a row Of starry lamps and blazen cressets , fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus , yielded light As from a sky . The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the ...
... light And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magic , many a row Of starry lamps and blazen cressets , fed With Naphtha and Asphaltus , yielded light As from a sky . The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd ; and the ...
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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 17 - 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 9 - 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 31 - A pillar of state ; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin. Sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Page 10 - 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 48 - 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 38 - 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 174 - 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 248 - 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 10 - 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...
Bibliographic information
| Title | Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts |
| Author | John Milton |
| Publisher | Phillips, Sampson, & Company, 1849 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | May 25, 2007 |
| Length | 582 pages |
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