Paradise Lost: In Twelve BooksHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1894 |
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... hand the flames Driven backward slope their pointing spires , and , rolled In billows , leave in the midst a horrid vale . Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt unusual weight ...
... hand the flames Driven backward slope their pointing spires , and , rolled In billows , leave in the midst a horrid vale . Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt unusual weight ...
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... hands lopt off , In his own temple , on the grunsel edge , Where he fell flat and shamed his worshipers . Dagon his name , sea monster , upward man And downward fish ; yet had his temple high Reared in Azotus , dreaded through the coast ...
... hands lopt off , In his own temple , on the grunsel edge , Where he fell flat and shamed his worshipers . Dagon his name , sea monster , upward man And downward fish ; yet had his temple high Reared in Azotus , dreaded through the coast ...
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... hands Rifled the bowels of their mother - earth For treasures better hid . Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound , 680 And digged out ribs of gold . Let none admire 690 That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best ...
... hands Rifled the bowels of their mother - earth For treasures better hid . Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound , 680 And digged out ribs of gold . Let none admire 690 That riches grow in Hell ; that soil may best ...
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... multitude Admiring entered , and the work some praise And some the architect . His hand was known In Heaven by many a towered structure high , Where sceptred Angels held their residence , 730 740 And sat as princes , whom the supreme King.
... multitude Admiring entered , and the work some praise And some the architect . His hand was known In Heaven by many a towered structure high , Where sceptred Angels held their residence , 730 740 And sat as princes , whom the supreme King.
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... of Ind , Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold- Satan exalted sat , by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and , from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope , aspires ' Beyond thus.
... of Ind , Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold- Satan exalted sat , by merit raised To that bad eminence ; and , from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope , aspires ' Beyond thus.
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Page 61 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate, there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 5 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 102 - Unargued I obey ; so God ordains : God is thy law, thou mine ; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
Page 236 - So saying, her rash hand, in evil hour, Forth reaching to the fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound; and Nature from her seat, Sighing through all her works, gave signs of woe That all was lost.
Page 9 - Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor - one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 85 - O thou that with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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 state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down 40 Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king: Ah wherefore!
Page 193 - Imports not, if thou reckon right; the rest From man or angel the great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scanned by them who ought Rather admire; or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the heavens Hath left to their disputes, perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter; when they come to model heaven And calculate the stars, how they will wield The mighty frame! how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the...
Page 92 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad, In naked majesty seemed lords of all, 590 And worthy seemed ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure — Severe, but in true filial freedom placed, — Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed ; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she, and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for...
Page 172 - Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible Diurnal Sphere. Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Page 103 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, 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...