Paradise Lost: In Twelve BooksHoughton, Mifflin and Company, 1894 |
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... wide Within her ample spaces , o'er the smooth And level pavement . From the arched roof Pendent , by subtle magic , many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets , fed With naphtha and asphaltus , yielded light As from a sky . The ...
... wide Within her ample spaces , o'er the smooth And level pavement . From the arched roof Pendent , by subtle magic , many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets , fed With naphtha and asphaltus , yielded light As from a sky . The ...
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... wide , but chief the spacious hall - Though like a covered field , where champions bold Wont ride in armed , and , at the Soldan's chair , Defied the best of Panim chivalry - To mortal combat , or career with lance Thick swarmed , both ...
... wide , but chief the spacious hall - Though like a covered field , where champions bold Wont ride in armed , and , at the Soldan's chair , Defied the best of Panim chivalry - To mortal combat , or career with lance Thick swarmed , both ...
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... wide into the realm of Night , Scorning surprise . Or could we break our way By force , and at our heels all Hell should rise , With blackest insurrection to confound Heaven's purest light , yet our great enemy All incorruptible would ...
... wide into the realm of Night , Scorning surprise . Or could we break our way By force , and at our heels all Hell should rise , With blackest insurrection to confound Heaven's purest light , yet our great enemy All incorruptible would ...
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... wide womb of uncreated night , Devoid of sense and motion . Let this be good , whether our angry foe Can give it , or will ever ? How he can Is doubtful ; that he never will , is sure . Will he , so wise , let loose at once his ire ...
... wide womb of uncreated night , Devoid of sense and motion . Let this be good , whether our angry foe Can give it , or will ever ? How he can Is doubtful ; that he never will , is sure . Will he , so wise , let loose at once his ire ...
Page 39
... Wide gaping , and with utter loss of being Threatens him , plunged in that abortive gulf . If thence he ' scape , into whatever world Or unknown region , what remains him less Than unknown dangers , and as hard escape ? 440 But I should ...
... Wide gaping , and with utter loss of being Threatens him , plunged in that abortive gulf . If thence he ' scape , into whatever world Or unknown region , what remains him less Than unknown dangers , and as hard escape ? 440 But I should ...
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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...