THE POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON, Volume 1Macmillan, 1904 |
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... Through that wild field how he his way should find O'er which lame Faith leads Understanding blind ; Lest he perplexed the things he would explain , And what was easy he should render vain . 1 .D . Or , if a work so infinite 4 PARADISE ...
... Through that wild field how he his way should find O'er which lame Faith leads Understanding blind ; Lest he perplexed the things he would explain , And what was easy he should render vain . 1 .D . Or , if a work so infinite 4 PARADISE ...
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... faith , and firm accord , More than can be in Heaven , we now return To claim our just inheritance of old , Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assured us ; and by what best way , Whether of open war or covert guile , We now ...
... faith , and firm accord , More than can be in Heaven , we now return To claim our just inheritance of old , Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assured us ; and by what best way , Whether of open war or covert guile , We now ...
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... faith , till then Unbroken , and in proud rebellious arms 691 Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons , Conjured against the Highest - for which both thou And they , outcast from God , are here condemned To waste eternal days in ...
... faith , till then Unbroken , and in proud rebellious arms 691 Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons , Conjured against the Highest - for which both thou And they , outcast from God , are here condemned To waste eternal days in ...
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... faith , or love , Where only what they needs must do appeared . Not what they would ? What praise could they What pleasure I , from such obedience paid , When Will and Reason ( Reason also is Choice ) Useless and vain , of freedom both ...
... faith , or love , Where only what they needs must do appeared . Not what they would ? What praise could they What pleasure I , from such obedience paid , When Will and Reason ( Reason also is Choice ) Useless and vain , of freedom both ...
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... faith ? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin ! Hence I will excite their minds With more desire to know , and to reject Envious commands , invented with design To keep them low , whom knowledge might exalt Equal with Gods ...
... faith ? O fair foundation laid whereon to build Their ruin ! Hence I will excite their minds With more desire to know , and to reject Envious commands , invented with design To keep them low , whom knowledge might exalt Equal with Gods ...
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Abdiel Adam Adam and Eve Almighty Angels Archangel arms aught beast Beelzebub behold bliss bright burning lake Canaan celestial Cherub Cherubim CHIG cloud creatures dark death deep delight didst divine dread dwell Earth Empyrean eternal evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith Father fear Fiend fierce fire flaming flowers fruit glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven Heavenly Hell highth hill honour Ithuriel John Milton King less lest light live mankind Messiah nigh night o'er pain PARADISE LOST peace praise reign round RSITY sapience Satan Satan return scape seat seemed Seraph Serpent shade shalt sight SITY soon sovran spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thyself tree UNIV UNIV voice whence wings wonder World Zephon
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Page 25 - Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 11 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 12 - That durst dislike his reign, and, me preferring, His utmost power with adverse power opposed In dubious battle on the plains of Heaven, And shook his throne. What though the field be lost ? All is not lost — the unconquerable will. And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield ; And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might no Extort from me.
Page 111 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 156 - Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound Within the visible Diurnal Sphere. Standing on Earth, not rapt above the pole, More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues. In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude ; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Page 292 - For God is also in sleep ; and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep : but now lead on — In me is no delay : with thee to go, Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence.
Page 56 - 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.
Page 96 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, 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 mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 111 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle multiform, and mix And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Page 23 - At which the universal host up-sent A shout, that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment, through the gloom, were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air, With orient colours waving : with them rose A forest huge of spears ; and thronging helms Appear'd, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable...