Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve BooksA. Donalson, and fold at his shop, 1772 - 323 pages |
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... thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous fong , That with no middle flight intends to foar Above th ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in profe or rhyme . And chiefly thou , O Spi'rit , that doft prefer Before all ...
... thence Invoke thy aid to my advent'rous fong , That with no middle flight intends to foar Above th ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in profe or rhyme . And chiefly thou , O Spi'rit , that doft prefer Before all ...
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... thence in heav'n call'd Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid filence , thus began . If thou beeft he ; but O how fall'n ! how chang'd From him , who in the happy realms of light 85 Cloth'd with transcendent brightness didst ...
... thence in heav'n call'd Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid filence , thus began . If thou beeft he ; but O how fall'n ! how chang'd From him , who in the happy realms of light 85 Cloth'd with transcendent brightness didst ...
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... thence Had ris'n , or heav'd his head , but that the will And high permiffion of all - ruling Heav'n Left him at large to his own dark defigns ; That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation , while he fought Evil to ...
... thence Had ris'n , or heav'd his head , but that the will And high permiffion of all - ruling Heav'n Left him at large to his own dark defigns ; That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation , while he fought Evil to ...
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... thence And black Gehenna call'd , the type of hell . Next Chemos , th ' obfcene dread of Moab's fons , From Aroar to Nebo , and the wild Of fouthmoft Abarim ; in Hefebon And Horonaim , Seon's realm , beyond 400 405 The The flow'ry dale ...
... thence And black Gehenna call'd , the type of hell . Next Chemos , th ' obfcene dread of Moab's fons , From Aroar to Nebo , and the wild Of fouthmoft Abarim ; in Hefebon And Horonaim , Seon's realm , beyond 400 405 The The flow'ry dale ...
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... thence his luftful orgies he enlarg'd Ev'n to that hill of fcandal , by the grove Of Moloch homicide ; luft hard by hate ; Till good Jofiah drove them thence to hell . 415 With these came they , who from the bord'ring flood Of old ...
... thence his luftful orgies he enlarg'd Ev'n to that hill of fcandal , by the grove Of Moloch homicide ; luft hard by hate ; Till good Jofiah drove them thence to hell . 415 With these came they , who from the bord'ring flood Of old ...
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