Paradise Lost, Book 1Hurst, 1900 - 408 pages |
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Page 18
... spirits ! Or have ye chosen this place After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue , for the ease you find To slumber here , as in the vales of heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To adore the Conqueror , who now ...
... spirits ! Or have ye chosen this place After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue , for the ease you find To slumber here , as in the vales of heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To adore the Conqueror , who now ...
Page 22
... spirits , when they please , Can either sex assume , or both ; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure , Not tied or manacled with joint or limb , Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones , 420 Like cumbrous flesh ; but , in ...
... spirits , when they please , Can either sex assume , or both ; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure , Not tied or manacled with joint or limb , Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones , 420 Like cumbrous flesh ; but , in ...
Page 25
... spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven , or more gross to love Vice for itself . To him no temple stood Or altar smoked ; yet who more oft than he in temples and at altars , when the priest Turns atheist , as did Eli's sons , who filled ...
... spirit more lewd Fell not from Heaven , or more gross to love Vice for itself . To him no temple stood Or altar smoked ; yet who more oft than he in temples and at altars , when the priest Turns atheist , as did Eli's sons , who filled ...
Page 29
... spirits for his fault amerced Of heaven , and from eternal splendors flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood , Their glory withered : as , when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines , With singed top ...
... spirits for his fault amerced Of heaven , and from eternal splendors flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood , Their glory withered : as , when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines , With singed top ...
Page 30
... spirits ! O powers Matchless , but with the Almighty ! - and that strife Was not inglorious , though the event was dire , As this place testifies , and this dire change Hateful to utter ! But what power of mind , Foreseeing or presaging ...
... spirits ! O powers Matchless , but with the Almighty ! - and that strife Was not inglorious , though the event was dire , As this place testifies , and this dire change Hateful to utter ! But what power of mind , Foreseeing or presaging ...
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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 encyclopædia 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 Cæsar 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