Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 2J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 - Plagiarism |
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... feven beautiful nymph - like figures dancing before and about his chariot , which are commonly taken for the Hours , but poffibly may be the Pleiades , as they are feven in number , and it is not eafy to affign a reason why the Hours ...
... feven beautiful nymph - like figures dancing before and about his chariot , which are commonly taken for the Hours , but poffibly may be the Pleiades , as they are feven in number , and it is not eafy to affign a reason why the Hours ...
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... feven hills . If Milton afterwards , in ver . 495. & c mentions the ferpent again , he mentions a particular fpe- cies of the ferpent kind ; and with a plain view to make Adam more mindful of that animal which was to work his ruin and ...
... feven hills . If Milton afterwards , in ver . 495. & c mentions the ferpent again , he mentions a particular fpe- cies of the ferpent kind ; and with a plain view to make Adam more mindful of that animal which was to work his ruin and ...
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... feven days after that he was coafting round the earth ; he comes into Paradise again by night , and this is the beginning of the ninth day , and the laft of Man's innocence and happiness . And the morning often is called facred by the ...
... feven days after that he was coafting round the earth ; he comes into Paradise again by night , and this is the beginning of the ninth day , and the laft of Man's innocence and happiness . And the morning often is called facred by the ...
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... feven days : but we have not any account of Adam and Eve excepting only on the first of thofe days , which begins with the beginning of book the fifth , where Eve relates her dream ; that day at noon the Angel Raphael comes down from ...
... feven days : but we have not any account of Adam and Eve excepting only on the first of thofe days , which begins with the beginning of book the fifth , where Eve relates her dream ; that day at noon the Angel Raphael comes down from ...
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... feven times , de- parts at length from Paradise . We And from the hollow cloud his then fee him fteering his courfe among the conftellations , and after friends furveys- Was left him , or falfe glitter : All amaz'd having 256 Book X ...
... feven times , de- parts at length from Paradise . We And from the hollow cloud his then fee him fteering his courfe among the conftellations , and after friends furveys- Was left him , or falfe glitter : All amaz'd having 256 Book X ...
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Page 9 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 431 - ... observe His providence; and on Him sole depend, Merciful over all His works, with good Still overcoming evil, and by small Accomplishing great things, by things...
Page 149 - O Woman ! best are all things as the will Of God ordain'd them; his creating hand Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that he created: much less man, Or aught that might his happy state secure, Secure from outward force; within himself The danger lies, yet lies within his power: Against his will, he can receive no harm...
Page 429 - So shall the World go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning, till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked...
Page 283 - Why delays His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and...
Page 100 - Man-like, but different sex ; so lovely fair, That what seem'd fair in all the world, seem'd now Mean, or in her summ'd up, in her contain'd And in her looks ; which from that time infus'd Sweetness into my heart, unfelt before, And into all things from her air inspir'd The spirit of love and amorous delight.
Page 32 - Into one place, and let dry land appear. Immediately the mountains huge appear Emergent, and their broad bare backs upheave Into the clouds, their tops ascend the sky. So high as...
Page 49 - As from his lair, the wild beast, where he wons In forest wild, in thicket, brake, or den ; Among the trees in pairs they rose, they...
Page 200 - Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin...
Page 434 - I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go, Is to stay here; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under Heav'n, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.