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... happie Garden plac't , Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love , Uninterrupted joy , unrivald love In blissful folitude ; he then furvey'd Hell and the Gulf between , and Satan there Coasting the wall of Heav'n on this fide Night In the ...
... happie Garden plac't , Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love , Uninterrupted joy , unrivald love In blissful folitude ; he then furvey'd Hell and the Gulf between , and Satan there Coasting the wall of Heav'n on this fide Night In the ...
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... Happie for man , fo coming ; he her aide Can never seek , once dead in fins and loft ; Attonement for himself or offering meet , Indebted and undon , hath none to bring : Behold mee then , mee for him , life for life I offer , on mee ...
... Happie for man , fo coming ; he her aide Can never seek , once dead in fins and loft ; Attonement for himself or offering meet , Indebted and undon , hath none to bring : Behold mee then , mee for him , life for life I offer , on mee ...
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... happie hours in joy and hymning spent . Mean while upon the firm opacous Globe Of this round World , whofe first convex divides The luminous inferior Orbs , enclos'd From Chaos and th ' inroad of Darkness old , Satan alighted walks : a ...
... happie hours in joy and hymning spent . Mean while upon the firm opacous Globe Of this round World , whofe first convex divides The luminous inferior Orbs , enclos'd From Chaos and th ' inroad of Darkness old , Satan alighted walks : a ...
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... happie feat of Man , His journies end and our beginning woe . But first he cafts to change his proper shape , Which else might work him danger or delay : And now a stripling Cherube he appeers , Not of the prime , yet such as in his ...
... happie feat of Man , His journies end and our beginning woe . But first he cafts to change his proper shape , Which else might work him danger or delay : And now a stripling Cherube he appeers , Not of the prime , yet such as in his ...
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... happie Race of Men To ferve him better : wife are all his wayes . So fpake the false diffembler unperceivd ; For neither Man nor Angel can discern Hypocrifie , the only evil that walks Invisible , except to God alone , 680 By his ...
... happie Race of Men To ferve him better : wife are all his wayes . So fpake the false diffembler unperceivd ; For neither Man nor Angel can discern Hypocrifie , the only evil that walks Invisible , except to God alone , 680 By his ...
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Page x - warping on the Eaftern Wind, That ore the Realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like Night, and darken'd all the Land of Nile : So numberlefs were thofe bad Angels feen Hovering on wing under the Cope of Hell 'Twixt upper, nether, and furrounding Fires; Till, as a fignal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear Of their great Sultan waving to
Page x - Their great Commander; Godlike fhapes and forms Excelling human, Princely Dignities, 359 And Powers that earft in Heaven fat on Thrones ; Though of their Names in heav'nly Records now Be no memorial, blotted out and ras'd By thir Rebellion, from the Books of Life. Nor had they yet among the Sons of Eve Got them new
Page 179 - learne, That not to know at large of things remote 191 From ufe, obfcure and futtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime Wifdom, what is more, is fume, Or emptinefs, or fond impertinence, And renders us in things that moft concerne Unpradlis'd, unprepar'd, and ftill to feek. Therefore from this high pitch let us
Page 17 - devis'd By Satan, and in part propos'd : for whence, 380 But from the Author of all ill could Spring So deep a malice, to confound the race Of mankind in one root, and Earth with Hell To mingle and involve, done all to fpite The great Creatour ? but thir fpite
Page 64 - 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 flate 1 fell, how glorious once above thy
Page 263 - The rule of not too much, by temperance taught In what thou eatft and drinkft, feeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight, 530 Till many years over thy head return : So maift thou live, till like ripe Fruit thou drop Into thy Mothers lap, or be with eafe Gatherd, not harfhly pluckt, for death mature:
Page 193 - happie, and love, but firft of all Him whom to love is to obey, and keep His great command; take heed leaft Paffion fway Thy Judgement to do aught, which elfe free Will Would not admit; thine and of all thy Sons The weal or woe in thee is plac't; beware. I in thy perfevering
Page 162 - with bright Rayes, jocond to run His Longitude through Heav'ns high rode: the gray Dawn, and the Pleiades before him danc'd Shedding fweet influence : lefs bright the Moon, But oppofite in leveld Weft was fet His mirror, with full face borrowing her Light From him, for other light me needed none In that
Page 2 - Sheer o're the Chryftal Battlements: from Morn To Noon he fell, from Noon to dewy Eve, A Summers day; and with the fetting Sun Dropt from the Zenith like a falling Star, On Lemnos th
Page 157 - at hand, Celeftial Equipage ; and now came forth Spontaneous, for within them Spirit livd, Attendant on thir Lord: Heav'n op'nd wide Her ever during Gates, Harmonious found On golden Hinges moving, to let forth The King of Glorie in his powerful Word And Spirit coming to create new Worlds. On heav'nly ground they flood, and from the