The British poets, including translations, Volume 161822 |
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... wide into the realm of night , Scorning surprise . Or could we break our way By force , and at our heels all Hell should rise With blackest insurrection , to confound Heaven's purest light ; yet our great enemy All incorruptible , would ...
... wide into the realm of night , Scorning surprise . Or could we break our way By force , and at our heels all Hell should rise With blackest insurrection , to confound Heaven's purest light ; yet our great enemy All incorruptible , would ...
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British poets. To perish rather , swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night , Devoid of sense and motion ? and who knows , Let this be good , whether our angry foe Can give it , or will ever ? how he can , Is doubtful ...
British poets. To perish rather , swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night , Devoid of sense and motion ? and who knows , Let this be good , whether our angry foe Can give it , or will ever ? how he can , Is doubtful ...
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... Wide gaping , and with utter loss of being Threatens him , plunged in that abortive gulf . If thence he ' scape into whatever world , Or unknown region , what remains him less Than unknown dangers , and as hard escape ? But I should ill ...
... Wide gaping , and with utter loss of being Threatens him , plunged in that abortive gulf . If thence he ' scape into whatever world , Or unknown region , what remains him less Than unknown dangers , and as hard escape ? But I should ill ...
Page 143
... their mouths the sounding alchemy , By herald's voice explain'd : the hollow ' abyss Heard far and wide , and all the host of Hell With deafening shout return'd them loud acclaim . Thence more B. II . 143 PARADISE LOST .
... their mouths the sounding alchemy , By herald's voice explain'd : the hollow ' abyss Heard far and wide , and all the host of Hell With deafening shout return'd them loud acclaim . Thence more B. II . 143 PARADISE LOST .
Page 145
... wide That dismal world , if any clime perhaps Might yield them easier habitation , bend Four ways their flying march , along the banks Of four infernal rivers , that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams ; Abhorred Styx ...
... wide That dismal world , if any clime perhaps Might yield them easier habitation , bend Four ways their flying march , along the banks Of four infernal rivers , that disgorge Into the burning lake their baleful streams ; Abhorred Styx ...
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Page 161 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander, where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 126 - From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 145 - Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage. Far off from these a slow and silent stream, Lethe, the river of oblivion, rolls Her watery labyrinth, whereof who drinks, Forthwith his former state and being forgets, Forgets both joy and grief, pleasure and pain.
Page 160 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?
Page 131 - For dignity composed, and high exploit. But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels : for his thoughts were low ; To vice industrious, but to nobler deeds Timorous and slothful ; yet he pleased the ear...
Page 103 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing, Heavenly Muse...
Page 104 - Fast by the oracle of God ; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song ; That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the' Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Page 219 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then ! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 147 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants- bring Their spicy drugs ; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seemed Far off the flying Fiend.
Page 100 - Philosophy, baptized In the pure fountain of eternal love, Has eyes indeed; and viewing all she sees As meant to indicate a God to man, Gives him his praise, and forfeits not her own.