Paradise Lost: Books I and II., Book 1Allyn and Bacon, 1916 - 124 pages |
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... He advises ' the regent powers , under him regent , ' of Satan's will 6 Tells the suggested cause , and casts between Ambiguous words and jealousies , to sound Or taint integrity . But all obeyed The wonted signal Introduction . 7.
... He advises ' the regent powers , under him regent , ' of Satan's will 6 Tells the suggested cause , and casts between Ambiguous words and jealousies , to sound Or taint integrity . But all obeyed The wonted signal Introduction . 7.
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... sound of waters deep , Hoarse murmur echoed to his words applause Through the infinite host . ( V. 857-874 . ) Abdiel , flinging them a prophecy The challenge is given . of their fall , goes out from them : Among the faithless ...
... sound of waters deep , Hoarse murmur echoed to his words applause Through the infinite host . ( V. 857-874 . ) Abdiel , flinging them a prophecy The challenge is given . of their fall , goes out from them : Among the faithless ...
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... sound Of instrumental harmony , that breathed Heroic ardor to adventurous deeds Under their godlike leaders , in the cause Of God and his Messiah . On they move Indissolubly firm : nor obvious hill , Nor straitening vale , nor wood ...
... sound Of instrumental harmony , that breathed Heroic ardor to adventurous deeds Under their godlike leaders , in the cause Of God and his Messiah . On they move Indissolubly firm : nor obvious hill , Nor straitening vale , nor wood ...
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... sound Of onset ended soon each milder thought . High in the midst , exalted as a God , The Apostate in his sun - bright chariot sat , Idol of majesty divine , enclosed With flaming Cherubim and golden shields ; Then lighted from his ...
... sound Of onset ended soon each milder thought . High in the midst , exalted as a God , The Apostate in his sun - bright chariot sat , Idol of majesty divine , enclosed With flaming Cherubim and golden shields ; Then lighted from his ...
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... sound The Archangel trumpet : through the vast of Heaven It sounded , and the faithful armies rung Hosannah to the Highest : nor stood at gaze The adverse legions , nor less hideous joined The horrid shock . Now storming fury rose , And ...
... sound The Archangel trumpet : through the vast of Heaven It sounded , and the faithful armies rung Hosannah to the Highest : nor stood at gaze The adverse legions , nor less hideous joined The horrid shock . Now storming fury rose , And ...
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Abyss Adam Adam and Eve Æneid Almighty Archangel Argob arms battle Beelzebub behold Belial bliss burning lake called celestial Chaos Cherubim created dark death deeds deep Deity delight Demogorgon dire divine dread Earth empyreal Empyrean equal eternal ethereal evil fall fate Father fear fell Fiend fierce fiery fire flames gates Gehenna Gibeah glory gods gold happy hate hath Heaven Heavenly Hell highth hill hope horrid host hung infernal King less light Mammon mighty Milton Moloch mount Night o'er once Ophiuchus Oreb pain Paradise Lost peace Phlegra poem rage Rebel Angels region reign revenge round Satan Satan return seat seemed Seraphim Serbonian bog serpent shades sons soon sound spake spear Spirits starry stood strength sublime sweet Thammuz thee thence things Thither thou thoughts throne thunder towers Universe vast whence winds wings words World worse wrath
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Page 94 - In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none ; nor was his service hard. What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks ? How due ! yet all his good...
Page 72 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 30 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed ; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes, That comes to all...
Page 49 - Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold.
Page 46 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion...
Page 37 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, 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 27 - The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter...
Page 51 - Behold a wonder ! They but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
Page 29 - Of Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse...
Page 36 - Where joy for ever dwells ; hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place, or time.