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... taste ; But hard be hardened , blind be blinded more , 200 That they may stumble on , and deeper fall ; And none but such from mercy I exclude.- But yet all is not done . Man disobeying , Disloyal , breaks his fealty , and sins Against ...
... taste ; But hard be hardened , blind be blinded more , 200 That they may stumble on , and deeper fall ; And none but such from mercy I exclude.- But yet all is not done . Man disobeying , Disloyal , breaks his fealty , and sins Against ...
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... taste ; And all amid them stood the Tree of Life , High eminent , blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold ; and next to life , 220 Our death , the Tree of Knowledge , grew fast by- Knowledge of good , bought dear by knowing ill ...
... taste ; And all amid them stood the Tree of Life , High eminent , blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold ; and next to life , 220 Our death , the Tree of Knowledge , grew fast by- Knowledge of good , bought dear by knowing ill ...
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... taste . Betwixt them lawns , or level downs , and flocks Grazing the tender herb , were interposed , Or palmy hillock ; or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store , Flowers of all hue , and without thorn the rose ...
... taste . Betwixt them lawns , or level downs , and flocks Grazing the tender herb , were interposed , Or palmy hillock ; or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store , Flowers of all hue , and without thorn the rose ...
Page 98
... taste is now of joy : Happy , but for so happy ill secured 370 Long to continue , and this high seat , your Heaven , Ill fenced for Heaven to keep out such a foe As now is entered ; yet no purposed foe To 100 PARADISE LOST.
... taste is now of joy : Happy , but for so happy ill secured 370 Long to continue , and this high seat , your Heaven , Ill fenced for Heaven to keep out such a foe As now is entered ; yet no purposed foe To 100 PARADISE LOST.
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... taste that only Tree Of Knowledge , planted by the Tree of Life ; So near grows Death to Life , whate'er Death is Some dreadful thing no doubt ; for well thou know'st God hath pronounced it Death to taste that Tree : The only sign of ...
... taste that only Tree Of Knowledge , planted by the Tree of Life ; So near grows Death to Life , whate'er Death is Some dreadful thing no doubt ; for well thou know'st God hath pronounced it Death to taste that Tree : The only sign of ...
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Abdiel Adam æther Almighty Angels arms Asmodeus aught beast Beelzebub behold Belial bliss bright celestial Chaos Cherub Cherubim cloud creatures dark death deep deity delight divine dread dwell Earth Egypt eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fear fell fierce fiery fire flaming flowers fruit glory gods grace Greek mythology hand happy hath heard heart Heaven Heavenly Hell highth hill honour hope host infernal JOHN MILTON King less lest light live lost Mammon mankind Messiah Moloch Mozambic night Nisroch o'er Ophion Oreb pain Paradise PARADISE LOST peace praise rage reign round sapience Satan Satan return seat seemed Seraph Serpent sight soon sovran spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree Uriel wandering whence wind wings World Zeus
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Page 2 - Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and
Page 326 - lost Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. THE END OF
Page 68 - Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed ; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but
Page 24 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless—like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the Moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the Earth
Page 2 - 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, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first—for Heaven hides nothing from
Page 66 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrowned the noontide bowers. Thus was A happy
Page 45 - Their own revolt, not I. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain .unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, 120 Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all, Both what they judge and what they choose ; for
Page 45 - So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her Irradiate ; there plant eyes ; all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. powers
Page 167 - Again God said, " Let there be firmament Amid the waters, and let it divide The waters from the waters ! " And God made The firmament, expanse of liquid, pure, Transparent, elemental air diffused In circuit to the uttermost convex
Page 129 - maintained 30 Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms, And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence ; for this was all thy care— To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse. The easier conquest now