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... pain : Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced Of heaven , and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt , yet faithful how they stood , Their glory wither'd : as when Heav'n's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks , or mountain pines ...
... pain : Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced Of heaven , and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt , yet faithful how they stood , Their glory wither'd : as when Heav'n's fire Hath scath'd the forest oaks , or mountain pines ...
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... pain ? Where there is then no good For which to strive , no strife can grow up there From faction ; for none sure will claim in Hell Precedence ; none , whose portion is so small Of present pain , that with ambitious mind Will covet ...
... pain ? Where there is then no good For which to strive , no strife can grow up there From faction ; for none sure will claim in Hell Precedence ; none , whose portion is so small Of present pain , that with ambitious mind Will covet ...
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... pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end , The vassals of his anger , when the scourge 90 Inexorably , and the tort'ring hour Calls us to penance ? More destroy'd than thus , We should be quite abolish'd , and ...
... pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end , The vassals of his anger , when the scourge 90 Inexorably , and the tort'ring hour Calls us to penance ? More destroy'd than thus , We should be quite abolish'd , and ...
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... pain , this intellectual being , Those thoughts that wander through eternity , To perish rather , swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night , 130 135 140 145 150 Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows Let this be ...
... pain , this intellectual being , Those thoughts that wander through eternity , To perish rather , swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night , 130 135 140 145 150 Devoid of sense and motion ? And who knows Let this be ...
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... pain , The sentence of their Conqu'ror . This is now Our doom ; which if we can sustain and bear , Our Supreme Foe in time may much remit 205 210 His anger , and perhaps , thus far removed , Not mind us not offending , satisfy'd With ...
... pain , The sentence of their Conqu'ror . This is now Our doom ; which if we can sustain and bear , Our Supreme Foe in time may much remit 205 210 His anger , and perhaps , thus far removed , Not mind us not offending , satisfy'd With ...
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