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... fear his heart rebounds . Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes immense , and were at large , Though without number still , amidst the hall 790 Of that infernal court . But far within , And in their own ...
... fear his heart rebounds . Thus incorporeal spirits to smallest forms Reduced their shapes immense , and were at large , Though without number still , amidst the hall 790 Of that infernal court . But far within , And in their own ...
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... fear ; of God , or Hell , or worse He recked not , and these words thereafter spake : My sentence is for open war of wiles , More unexpert , I boast not ; them let those 66 Contrive who need , or when they need , not now . For , while ...
... fear ; of God , or Hell , or worse He recked not , and these words thereafter spake : My sentence is for open war of wiles , More unexpert , I boast not ; them let those 66 Contrive who need , or when they need , not now . For , while ...
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... , outcome . We still say " in any event . " 83. Our stronger ; our betters , our inferiors are more familiar examples of this use of a comparative adjective . Fear to be worse destroyed . What can be worse BOOK II . ] 43 PARADISE LOST.
... , outcome . We still say " in any event . " 83. Our stronger ; our betters , our inferiors are more familiar examples of this use of a comparative adjective . Fear to be worse destroyed . What can be worse BOOK II . ] 43 PARADISE LOST.
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... fear we then ? what doubt we to incense His utmost ire ? which , to the highth enraged Will either quite consume us , and reduce To nothing this essential - happier far Than miserable to have eternal being ! - Or if our substance be ...
... fear we then ? what doubt we to incense His utmost ire ? which , to the highth enraged Will either quite consume us , and reduce To nothing this essential - happier far Than miserable to have eternal being ! - Or if our substance be ...
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... fear conceived , Gorgons , and Hydras , and Chimeras dire . Meanwhile , the adversary of God and man , Satan , with thoughts inflamed of highest design , Puts on swift wings , and towards the gates of Hell Explores his solitary flight ...
... fear conceived , Gorgons , and Hydras , and Chimeras dire . Meanwhile , the adversary of God and man , Satan , with thoughts inflamed of highest design , Puts on swift wings , and towards the gates of Hell Explores his solitary flight ...
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Page 5 - 20 Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark, Illumine ; what is low, raise and support; That to the highth of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men. Say first—for Heaven hides nothing from thy view,
Page 64 - either—black it stood as Night, 670 Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast 675 With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
Page 87 - 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 34 - Ransacked the centre, and with impious hands Rifled the bowels of their mother earth For treasures better hid. Soon had his crew Opened into the hill a spacious wound, And digged out ribs of gold. Let none admire 690 That riches grow in Hell: that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. And here let those
Page 14 - Infinite goodness, grace, and mercy, shewn On man by him seduced, but on himself Treble confusion, wrath, and vengeance poured. 220 Forthwith upright he rears from off the pool His mighty stature; on each hand the flames, Driven backwards, slope their pointing spires, and, rolled In billows, leave in the midst a horrid vale.
Page xxx - He above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured.
Page 89 - With that twice battered god of Palestine ; And mooned Ashtaroth, Heaven's queen and mother both, Now sits not girt with tapers holy shine ; The Lybic Hammon shrinks his horn ; In vain the Tyrian maids their wounded Thamuz mourn ; "And sullen Moloch, fled, Hath left in shadows dread
Page 26 - For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the first born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast : and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment : 1 am the Lord.
Page xxxiii - The divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in charnel-vaults and sepulchres, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loth to leave the body that it loved, And linked itself by carnal sensuality To a degenerate and degraded state.
Page 73 - The guarded gold ; so eagerly the fiend O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies. 950