Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, to which is Added, the Force of ReligionPhillips & Sampson, 1848 |
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... king , And put to proof his high supremacy , Whether upheld by strength , or chance , or fate ; Too well I see and rue the dire event , That with sad overthrow , and foul defeat , 135 Hath lost us Heaven , and all this mighty host In ...
... king , And put to proof his high supremacy , Whether upheld by strength , or chance , or fate ; Too well I see and rue the dire event , That with sad overthrow , and foul defeat , 135 Hath lost us Heaven , and all this mighty host In ...
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... First , Moloch , horrid king , besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice , and parents ' tears ; ' Inough , for the noise of drums and timbrels loud , 385 390 Their children's cries unheard , that pass'd though fire , 2 PARADISE LOST . 13.
... First , Moloch , horrid king , besmear'd with blood Of human sacrifice , and parents ' tears ; ' Inough , for the noise of drums and timbrels loud , 385 390 Their children's cries unheard , that pass'd though fire , 2 PARADISE LOST . 13.
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... king , whose heart , though large , Beguiled by fair idolatresses , fell 445 To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ...
... king , whose heart , though large , Beguiled by fair idolatresses , fell 445 To idols foul . Thammuz came next behind , Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day ...
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... king ; Ahaz , his sottish conqueror , whom he drew God's altar to disparage , and displace , For one of Syrian mode , whereon to burn His odious offerings , and adore the Gods 475 Whom he had vanquish'd . After these appear'd A crew ...
... king ; Ahaz , his sottish conqueror , whom he drew God's altar to disparage , and displace , For one of Syrian mode , whereon to burn His odious offerings , and adore the Gods 475 Whom he had vanquish'd . After these appear'd A crew ...
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... kings , Learn how their greatest monuments of fame , And strength , and art , are easily outdone By Spirits reprobate , and in an hour , What in an age they with incessant toil 690 695 700 And hands innumerable scarce perform . Nigh on ...
... kings , Learn how their greatest monuments of fame , And strength , and art , are easily outdone By Spirits reprobate , and in an hour , What in an age they with incessant toil 690 695 700 And hands innumerable scarce perform . Nigh on ...
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Adam adore ambition ambrosial Angels Archangel art thou behold beneath bless'd bliss breast call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud dark days of Heaven death deep Deity delight divine dread dust dwell earth eternal ethereal evil fair Fair Angel fate Father fear fire flame fruit glorious glory Godhead Gods guilt happy hast hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell hope hour human immortal know'st labour light live Lorenzo man's mankind mind mortal Nature Nature's night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace pleasure praise pride proud rapture Reason reign return'd rise round sapience Satan scape scene seem'd Seraph shade shines sight skies smile song soon soul spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thought throne thyself tree truth turn'd vex'd virtue whence wing wisdom wise wonder
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Էջ 92 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Էջ 55 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Էջ 290 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Էջ 82 - Imbrown'd the noontide bowers : Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. Others whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste...
Էջ 6 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire ; that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...
Էջ 25 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Էջ 57 - He and his faithless progeny. Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Էջ 9 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Էջ 105 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Էջ 50 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.