Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. According to the Author's Last Edition, in the Year 1674W. and W. Smith, P. Wilson, and T. Ewing, 1767 - 348 pages |
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Page 89
... happie ; no unbounded hope had rais'd Ambition . Yet why not ? fome other power As great might have aspir'd , and me though mean Drawn to his part ; but other powers as great Fell not , but stand unshak'n , from within Or from without ...
... happie ; no unbounded hope had rais'd Ambition . Yet why not ? fome other power As great might have aspir'd , and me though mean Drawn to his part ; but other powers as great Fell not , but stand unshak'n , from within Or from without ...
Page 91
... happie fort : his gestures fierce He mark'd and mad demeanour , then alone , As he fuppos'd , all unobferv'd , unseen . So on he fares , and to the border comes Of Eden , where delicious Paradise , Now nearer , crowns with her inclosure ...
... happie fort : his gestures fierce He mark'd and mad demeanour , then alone , As he fuppos'd , all unobferv'd , unseen . So on he fares , and to the border comes Of Eden , where delicious Paradise , Now nearer , crowns with her inclosure ...
Page 98
... happie nuptial league , Alone as they . About them frifking play'd All beats of the earth , fince wilde , and of all chafe In wood or wilderness , forreft or den ; Sporting , the lion ramp'd , and in his paw Dandl'd the kid ; bears ...
... happie nuptial league , Alone as they . About them frifking play'd All beats of the earth , fince wilde , and of all chafe In wood or wilderness , forreft or den ; Sporting , the lion ramp'd , and in his paw Dandl'd the kid ; bears ...
Page 99
... Happie , but for fo happie ill fecur'd Long to continue , and this high feat your heav'n Ill fenc't for heav'n to keep out fuch a foe As now is enter'd ; yet no purpos'd foe To you whom I could pitie thus forlorn Though I unpitied ...
... Happie , but for fo happie ill fecur'd Long to continue , and this high feat your heav'n Ill fenc't for heav'n to keep out fuch a foe As now is enter'd ; yet no purpos'd foe To you whom I could pitie thus forlorn Though I unpitied ...
Page 103
... happie ftate , The proof of their obedience and their faith ? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruine . ! hence I will excite their minds With more defire to know , and to reject Envious E. 4 PARADISE LOST . IV . 492 . 103 ...
... happie ftate , The proof of their obedience and their faith ? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruine . ! hence I will excite their minds With more defire to know , and to reject Envious E. 4 PARADISE LOST . IV . 492 . 103 ...
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Page 124 - His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 88 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Page 121 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 251 - Matter of scorn, not to be given the foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom; if death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of nature draw me to my own, My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
Page 44 - Typhoean rage more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind ; hell scarce holds the wild uproar.
Page 7 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 32 - Devoid of sense and motion? And who knows, Let this be good, whether our angry foe Can give it, or will ever? How he can Is doubtful; that he never will is sure.
Page 147 - Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he; Among innumerable false unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number nor example with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 208 - Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here? Not of myself; by some great Maker then, In goodness and in power pre-eminent: Tell me how may I know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move and live, And feel that I am happier than I know...
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.