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... wide Within , her ample spaces , o'er the smooth And level pavement : from the arched roof Pendant by subtle magick , 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 Pendant by subtle magick , 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 cover'd field , where champions bold Wont ride in arm'd , and at the Soldan's chair Defied the best of Panim chivalry To mortal combat , or career with lance ) Thick swarm'd , both on ...
... wide , but chief the spacious hall ( Though like a cover'd field , where champions bold Wont ride in arm'd , and at the Soldan's chair Defied the best of Panim chivalry To mortal combat , or career with lance ) Thick swarm'd , both on ...
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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 F Heaven's purest light ; yet our great Enemy , All v . 108.1 33 BOOK ...
... 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 F Heaven's purest light ; yet our great Enemy , All v . 108.1 33 BOOK ...
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... wide womb of uncreated night , Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows , 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 ...
... wide womb of uncreated night , Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows , 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 ...
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... Wide gaping , and with utter loss of being Threatens him , plung'd 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 ? But I should ill ...
... Wide gaping , and with utter loss of being Threatens him , plung'd 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 ? But I should ill ...
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Abdiel Adam Adam and Eve Almighty Angel answer'd appear'd arm'd arms aught beast behold bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherubim cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deep delight didst divine dreadful dwell Earth eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fear Fiend fierce fill'd fire fix'd flaming flowers fruit gates glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell highth hill house of pain Ithuriel join'd King lest light live lost mankind Messiah night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace plac'd pleas'd rais'd reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd serpent shalt sight soon sovran spake Spirits stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree turn'd Uriel vex'd voice whence wings wonder Zephon
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Page 19 - obscur'd: as when the sun, new risen. Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Arch-Angel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had
Page 281 - Unbid; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field; In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, Till thou return unto the ground; for thou Out of the ground was taken, know thy birth, For dust thou art, and shalt to dust return. So
Page 2 - and battle proud, With vain attempt. Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal lire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. Nine times the space that measures day and
Page 127 - lute or harp To add more sweetness; and they thus began. These are thy glorious works, Parent of good. Almighty! Thine this universal frame, Thus wonderous fair ; Thyself how wonderous then! Unspeakable, who sit'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 182 - (as once Bellerophon, though from a lower clime,) Dismounted, on the Aleian field I fall, Erroneous there to wander, and forlorn. 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, unchang d To hoarse or mute, though
Page 25 - wings. As bees In spring time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters: they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs. So thick the airy
Page 59 - What pleasure I from such obedience paid, When will and reason (reason also is choice) Useless and vain, of freedom both despoil'd, Made passive both, had serv'd necessity, Not me ? They therefore, as to right belong'd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination over-rul'd
Page 91 - inspir'd Castalian spring, might with this Paradise Of Eden strive ; nor that Nyseian isle Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham, Whom Gentiles Ammon call and Lybian Jove, Hid Amalthea, and her florid son Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea's eye; Nor where Abassin kings their issue guard, True Paradise under the Ethiop line
Page 37 - face yet shone, Majestick, though in ruin : sage he stood With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noon-tide air, while thus he spake. Ethereal Virtues! or these titles now Must we renounce, and, changing
Page 222 - Led by her Heavenly Maker, though unseen, And guided by his voice; nor uninform'd Of nuptial sanctity, and marriage rites : Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love. T, overjoy'd, could not forbear aloud.