The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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Page 140
... fair light , Secure ; and at the brightening orient beam Purge off this gloom : the soft delicious air , To heal the scar of these corrosive fires , [ send Shall breathe her balm . But first whom shall we In search of this new world ...
... fair light , Secure ; and at the brightening orient beam Purge off this gloom : the soft delicious air , To heal the scar of these corrosive fires , [ send Shall breathe her balm . But first whom shall we In search of this new world ...
Page 147
... fair ; But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast ; a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of Hell - hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberean mouths full loud , and rung A B. II . 147 ...
... fair ; But ended foul in many a scaly fold Voluminous and vast ; a serpent arm'd With mortal sting : about her middle round A cry of Hell - hounds never ceasing bark'd With wide Cerberean mouths full loud , and rung A B. II . 147 ...
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... fair In heaven , when at the ' assembly , and in sight Of all the Seraphim with thee combined In bold conspiracy against Heaven's King , All on a sudden miserable pain Surprised thee , dim thine eyes , and dizzy swam In darkness , while ...
... fair In heaven , when at the ' assembly , and in sight Of all the Seraphim with thee combined In bold conspiracy against Heaven's King , All on a sudden miserable pain Surprised thee , dim thine eyes , and dizzy swam In darkness , while ...
Page 151
Including Translations ... Then shining heavenly fair , a goddess arm'd , Out of thy head I sprang : amazement seized All the ' host of heaven ; back they recoil'd afraid At first , and call'd me SIN , and for a sign Portentous held me ...
Including Translations ... Then shining heavenly fair , a goddess arm'd , Out of thy head I sprang : amazement seized All the ' host of heaven ; back they recoil'd afraid At first , and call'd me SIN , and for a sign Portentous held me ...
Page 152
... fair son here show'st me , the dear pledge Of dalliance had with thee in Heaven , and joys Then sweet , now sad to mention , through dire change Befallen us , unforeseen , unthought of ; know , I come no enemy , but to set free From out ...
... fair son here show'st me , the dear pledge Of dalliance had with thee in Heaven , and joys Then sweet , now sad to mention , through dire change Befallen us , unforeseen , unthought of ; know , I come no enemy , but to set free From out ...
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Abdiel Adam Almighty angels appear'd arm'd arms battle Beelzebub behold blank verse bliss burning lake call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim clouds Comus dark daughter death deep delight divine dread earth eternal etherial evil eyes fair Fair Angel fall Father fear fell fire flames friends Gabriel glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heaven heavenly Hell highth hill hope host infernal Ithuriel John Milton join'd King Latin less light Lycidas mankind Messiah Milton mind Moloch nature never night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass'd perhaps poem poet poetry praise rage reason reign revenge rhyme round Satan seem'd seems Seraph Seraphim shade sight soon spake Spirits stood sweet Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself turn'd Uriel verse vex'd whence winds wings wonder Zephon
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.