Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books |
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Page 66
... but store hereafter from the earth Up hither like aerial vapours flew Of all things transitory and vain , when sin With vanity had fill'd the works of men : Both all things vain , and all who on vain things Built their fond hopes of ...
... but store hereafter from the earth Up hither like aerial vapours flew Of all things transitory and vain , when sin With vanity had fill'd the works of men : Both all things vain , and all who on vain things Built their fond hopes of ...
Page 115
455 Thus when with meats and drinks they had sufficed , Not burden'd nature , sudden mind arose In Adam , not to let the occasion pass Given him by this great conference to know Of things above his world , and of their being Who dwell ...
455 Thus when with meats and drinks they had sufficed , Not burden'd nature , sudden mind arose In Adam , not to let the occasion pass Given him by this great conference to know Of things above his world , and of their being Who dwell ...
Page 159
Then staid the fervid wheels , and in his hand He took the golden compasses , prepared In God's eternal store , to circumscribe This universe , and all created things : One foot he centred , and the other turn'd Round through the vast ...
Then staid the fervid wheels , and in his hand He took the golden compasses , prepared In God's eternal store , to circumscribe This universe , and all created things : One foot he centred , and the other turn'd Round through the vast ...
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