The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1J. Forbes & Company no. 78 Gold street., 1815 |
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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 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 Heav'n'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 Heav'n's purest Light ; yet our great Enemy All incorruptible would ...
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... their mouths the sounding alchemy , By herald's voice explain'd ; the hollow ' abyss Heard far and wide , and all the host of Hell 515 With deaf'ning shout return'd them loud acclaim . 520 Thence PARADISE LOST . Book II ,
... their mouths the sounding alchemy , By herald's voice explain'd ; the hollow ' abyss Heard far and wide , and all the host of Hell 515 With deaf'ning shout return'd them loud acclaim . 520 Thence PARADISE LOST . Book II ,
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... wide 556 560 570 That dismal world , if any clime perhaps Might yield them easier habitation , bend Four ways their flying march , along the banks Of four infernal rivers , that disgorge 575 Into the burning lake their baleful streams ...
... wide 556 560 570 That dismal world , if any clime perhaps Might yield them easier habitation , bend Four ways their flying march , along the banks Of four infernal rivers , that disgorge 575 Into the burning lake their baleful streams ...
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... wide Ethiopian to the Cape , Far off the flying fiend . At last appear Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Hell bounds , high reaching to the horrid roof , And thrice threefold the gates ; three folds were brass , 645 Three ...
... wide Ethiopian to the Cape , Far off the flying fiend . At last appear Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Hell bounds , high reaching to the horrid roof , And thrice threefold the gates ; three folds were brass , 645 Three ...
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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...