Paradise Lost, Book 1Hurst, 1900 - 408 pages |
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Page 50
... happy though but ill , for ill not worst , If we procure not to ourselves more woe . " Thus Belial , with words clothed in reason's garb , Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth , Not peace ; and after him thus Mammon spake ...
... happy though but ill , for ill not worst , If we procure not to ourselves more woe . " Thus Belial , with words clothed in reason's garb , Counseled ignoble ease and peaceful sloth , Not peace ; and after him thus Mammon spake ...
Page 55
... happy seat Of some new race called Man , about this time To be created like to us , though less - 350 In power and excellence , but favored more Of him who rules above : so was his will Pronounced among the gods , and by an oath , That ...
... happy seat Of some new race called Man , about this time To be created like to us , though less - 350 In power and excellence , but favored more Of him who rules above : so was his will Pronounced among the gods , and by an oath , That ...
Page 57
... happy isle ° ? What strength , what art , can then Suffice , or what evasion bear him safe Through the strict senteries and stations thick Of angels watching round ? Here , he had need All circumspection ; and we now no less Choice in ...
... happy isle ° ? What strength , what art , can then Suffice , or what evasion bear him safe Through the strict senteries and stations thick Of angels watching round ? Here , he had need All circumspection ; and we now no less Choice in ...
Page 84
... happy state , but with resolution to work their fall ; overhears their discourse ; thence gathers that the Tree of Knowledge was forbidden them to eat of , under penalty of death ; and thereon intends to found his temptation , by ...
... happy state , but with resolution to work their fall ; overhears their discourse ; thence gathers that the Tree of Knowledge was forbidden them to eat of , under penalty of death ; and thereon intends to found his temptation , by ...
Page 99
... happy fields ! These lines contain an energy that is tremendous . Satan challenges our admiration . Discuss the assertions made by Satan in these lines . does he mean by " all but less " ? 262-263 . Reign . See B. VI . , 183-188 . What ...
... happy fields ! These lines contain an energy that is tremendous . Satan challenges our admiration . Discuss the assertions made by Satan in these lines . does he mean by " all but less " ? 262-263 . Reign . See B. VI . , 183-188 . What ...
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abyss Adam Almighty ancient ARGOB ARGUMENT arms battle Beelzebub Belial bibliography Bohn Library BOOK Brit burning lake Chaos cherubim Cite passages classical dictionary Classical References Damietta darkness Death deep Demogorgon dreadful earth Edited by CHARLES Edited by J. H. Encyc encyclopędia eternal evil Faerie Queene fallen angels fiery fire gates glory gods hath Hawthorne's heaven hell Heroes High School highth hill HORONAIM Iliad infernal Irving's Julius Cęsar King lake light lines Longfellow's Macaulay's Essay Map of Classical Map of Palestine mighty Milton Moloch mythology Night o'er pain Palgrave's Golden Treasury Paradise Lost Phlegra poet Prose pupil rage reign revenge round Satan Satan's flight Scott's Selections Serbonian bog Series of English serpent Seven Deadly Sins Shakespeare's Shorter Poems spake speech sphere spirits Stevenson's stood Symplegades Tennyson's Thammuz thee thence Thither thou throne thunder try to image wings xxxv