Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve BooksSeptimus Prowett, 1829 - 332 էջ |
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... stand ; a horrid front Of dreadful length and dazzling arms , in guise Of warriors old with order'd spear and shield ; Awaiting what command their mighty Chief Had to impose : He through the armed files Darts his experienced eye , and ...
... stand ; a horrid front Of dreadful length and dazzling arms , in guise Of warriors old with order'd spear and shield ; Awaiting what command their mighty Chief Had to impose : He through the armed files Darts his experienced eye , and ...
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... Stands on the blasted heath . He now prepared To speak ; whereat their double ranks they bend From wing to wing , and haif enclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute . Thrice he essay'd , and thrice , in spite of ...
... Stands on the blasted heath . He now prepared To speak ; whereat their double ranks they bend From wing to wing , and haif enclose him round With all his peers : Attention held them mute . Thrice he essay'd , and thrice , in spite of ...
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... , might draw Envy from each inferior ; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Foremost to stand against the Thunderer's aim , D Your bulwark , and condemns to greatest share Of endless PARADISE LOST. ...
... , might draw Envy from each inferior ; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Foremost to stand against the Thunderer's aim , D Your bulwark , and condemns to greatest share Of endless PARADISE LOST. ...
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... stand in arms , and longing wait The signal to ascend , sit lingering here , Heaven's fugitives , and for their dwelling place Accept this dark opprobrious den of shame , The prison of his tyranny who reigns By our delay ? No ; let us ...
... stand in arms , and longing wait The signal to ascend , sit lingering here , Heaven's fugitives , and for their dwelling place Accept this dark opprobrious den of shame , The prison of his tyranny who reigns By our delay ? No ; let us ...
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... Stand in his presence humble , and receive Strict laws imposed , to celebrate his throne With warbled hymns , and to his Godhead sing Forced hallelujahs ; while he lordly sits Our envied Sov'reign , and his altar breathes Ambrosial ...
... Stand in his presence humble , and receive Strict laws imposed , to celebrate his throne With warbled hymns , and to his Godhead sing Forced hallelujahs ; while he lordly sits Our envied Sov'reign , and his altar breathes Ambrosial ...
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Adam Almighty Angel answer'd appear'd arm'd arms aught beast Beelzebub behold bless'd bliss bright burning lake call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deep delight didst divine dread dwell Earth eternal evil eyes fair Fair angel faith Father fear Fiend fierce fire fix'd flaming flowers fruit gates glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven Heavenly heighth Hell hill Ithuriel JOHN MILTON join'd King lest light live mankind Messiah mix'd morn Mozambic night o'er ordain'd pain PARADISE LOST pass'd peace praise reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd Seraph serpent shade shalt sight soon spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thought throne thyself Tidore tree turn'd Uriel vex'd voice whence wings wonder Zephon
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Էջ 56 - men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, 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,
Էջ 8 - what I should be; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy; will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in Hell: Better to reign in
Էջ 318 - To the subjected plain , then disappear'd. They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wiped them soon : The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest and providence
Էջ 17 - or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monare.hs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Arch-Angel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd ; and care Sat on his faded
Էջ 6 - 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, Moots by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays: So stretch'd out huge in length the Arch-Fiend lay,
Էջ 31 - up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? And who know?, Let this be good, whether our angry Foe Can give it, or will ever 1 How he can, Is doubtful; that he never will, is sure. Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire, Belike
Էջ 40 - free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery', Passion and apathy, and glory and shame ,Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy; Yet with a pleasing sorcery, could charm Pain for a while or
Էջ 2 - revolt? The infernal serpent! he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels; by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory above his peers, He trusted to have
Էջ 215 - from each thing met conceives delight: The smell of grain, or tedded grass or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If chance, with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass, What pleasing seem'd, for her now pleases more. She most, and in her look sums all delight; Such pleasure took the Serpent to behold This
Էջ 16 - Of Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar Gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son, Begirt with British and Armoric knights; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond Or whom Biserta