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Page 120
... Death is the penalty imposed ; beware , And govern well thy appetite ; lest sin Surprise thee , and her black attendant , death . Here finish'd he , and all that he had made View'd , and behold all was entirely good ; So even and morn ...
... Death is the penalty imposed ; beware , And govern well thy appetite ; lest sin Surprise thee , and her black attendant , death . Here finish'd he , and all that he had made View'd , and behold all was entirely good ; So even and morn ...
Page 186
... Death , and Misery , Death's harbinger : Sad task ! yet argument Not less , but more heroic , than the wrath Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued Thrice fugitive about Troy wall ; or rage Of Turnus for Lavinia disespoused ; Or Neptune's ...
... Death , and Misery , Death's harbinger : Sad task ! yet argument Not less , but more heroic , than the wrath Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued Thrice fugitive about Troy wall ; or rage Of Turnus for Lavinia disespoused ; Or Neptune's ...
Page 208
... death or pain , Can either not receive , or can repel . His fraud is then thy fear ; which plain infers Thy equal fear , that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced ; Thoughts , which how found they harbour in thy ...
... death or pain , Can either not receive , or can repel . His fraud is then thy fear ; which plain infers Thy equal fear , that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduced ; Thoughts , which how found they harbour in thy ...
Page 240
... death : ye shall not die ; How should you ? by the fruit ? it gives you life Το knowledge ; by the threatener ? look ... death denounced , whatever thing death be , Deterr'd not from achieving what might lead To happier life ...
... death : ye shall not die ; How should you ? by the fruit ? it gives you life Το knowledge ; by the threatener ? look ... death denounced , whatever thing death be , Deterr'd not from achieving what might lead To happier life ...
Page 242
... death removes the fear . Why then was this forbid ? why , but to awe ? Why , but to keep ye low and ignorant , His worshippers ? He knows , that in the day Ye eat thereof , your eyes , that seem so clear , Yet are but dim , shall ...
... death removes the fear . Why then was this forbid ? why , but to awe ? Why , but to keep ye low and ignorant , His worshippers ? He knows , that in the day Ye eat thereof , your eyes , that seem so clear , Yet are but dim , shall ...
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Adam ainsi angel anges après lui arbre armée autre avait avant bêtes bien bientôt c'est ce jour-là ce que céleste chemin cher chérubins choses ciel cœur colère contre côté crainte créatures d'abord d'eux d'une dans le death demeure deux devant Dieu Dieux divine doit doux droit earth élevé elle encore enfin ennemi espérance esprit été être fair fait femme fils fois fruit gloire grand guerre hast hath haut heaven hommes humaine j'ai jamais joie jour jusqu'à l'air l'ange l'autre l'enfer l'homme le ciel le monde loin long-temps lumière maintenant monde mort n'est nuit par la Paradise pareil péché peine pensées perdu Père peut peut-être plein pouvoir premier présent puissance qu'elle qu'il qu'un que le race région Satan seem'd sera serpent seul soleil sortit sous souvent temps terre tête thee thou tout trône trouvé vertu voir vois voix volonté yeux
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Page 174 - All higher Knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like Folly shows ; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally ; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind, and nobleness, their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 244 - 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 430 - With all his verdure spoil'd, and trees adrift, Down the great river to the opening gulf, And there take root, an island salt and bare, The haunt of seals, and ores, and sea-mews...
Page 220 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight, The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 406 - if thou well observe The rule of 'Not too much,' by temperance taught, In what thou eat'st and drink'st, seeking from thence Due nourishment, not gluttonous delight ; Till many years over thy head return, So may'st thou live, till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gather'd, not harshly pluck'd, for death mature : This is old age...
Page 144 - That not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle ; but to know That which before us lies in daily life, Is the prime wisdom...
Page 224 - With burnish'd neck of verdant gold, erect Amidst his circling spires, that on the grass Floated redundant...
Page 78 - 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.
Page 390 - So many grateful altars I would rear Of grassy turf, and pile up every stone Of lustre from the brook, in memory Or monument to ages; and thereon Offer sweet-smelling gums, and fruits, and flowers In yonder nether world where shall I seek His bright appearances, or footstep trace?
Page 348 - She ended weeping, and her lowly plight, Immovable till peace obtained from fault Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration; soon his heart relented Towards her, his life so late and sole delight, Now at his feet submissive in distress, Creature so fair his reconcilement seeking, His counsel whom she had displeased, his aid; As one disarmed, his anger all he lost...