The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1J. Forbes & Company no. 78 Gold street., 1815 |
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... God , and drawing to his side many legions of angels , was , by the command of God , driven out of Heaven with all his crew into the great deep . Which action passed over , the poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting Satan ...
... God , and drawing to his side many legions of angels , was , by the command of God , driven out of Heaven with all his crew into the great deep . Which action passed over , the poem hastens into the midst of things , presenting Satan ...
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... God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme , And chiefly Thou , O Spi'rit , that dost prefer ...
... God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above th ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme , And chiefly Thou , O Spi'rit , that dost prefer ...
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... God and light of Heav'n , As from the centre thrice to th ' utmost pole . O how unlike the place from whence they fell ! There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , He soon discerns ...
... God and light of Heav'n , As from the centre thrice to th ' utmost pole . O how unlike the place from whence they fell ! There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , He soon discerns ...
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... Gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail ; Since through experience of this great event 110 115 In arms not worse , in foresight much advanc'd , 120 We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war ...
... Gods And this empyreal substance cannot fail ; Since through experience of this great event 110 115 In arms not worse , in foresight much advanc'd , 120 We may with more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war ...
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... Gods and heavenly essences Can perish ; for the mind and spirit remain Invincible , and vigour soon returns , 140 Though all our glory ' extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our conqu❜ror ...
... Gods and heavenly essences Can perish ; for the mind and spirit remain Invincible , and vigour soon returns , 140 Though all our glory ' extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our conqu❜ror ...
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Abdiel Adam advanc'd Almighty angels appear'd arm'd arms Beelzebub behold Belial bliss bright burning lake call'd celestial chariot cherub cherubim cloud created creatures dark deeds deep delight divine dread dwell eternal evil eyes fair Fair angel fall'n Father fell fiend fierce fiery fill'd fire flaming flow'rs form'd fruit gates glory Gods gold golden grace hand happy hast hath Heav'n and Earth heav'nly Hell hill honour host infernal Ithuriel JOHN MILTON join'd King know'st legions less light Messiah Moloch morn night o'er Omnipotent ordain'd pain PARADISE LOST pass'd plac'd pleas'd pow'r praise quires rage rais'd reign reply'd return'd round Satan seat seem'd seraph seraphim shade sight soon spake spirits stars stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself tree turn'd Uriel vex'd voice wand'ring whence winds wings Zephon
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Page 18 - With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of ri'ot ascends above their loftiest towers, And...
Page 95 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 67 - Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 96 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse ! all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good : by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign, As man ere long, and this new world shall know.
Page 50 - Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight : sometimes He scours the right hand coast, sometimes the left ; Now shaves with level wing the deep, then soars Up to the fiery concave towering high. As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala...
Page 25 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Page 99 - Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant...
Page 205 - Last Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit, or...