The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 29Bell and Daldy, 1866 |
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... Satan , from hell scap'd through the darksome gulf , Hath rais'd in paradise , and how disturb'd This night the human pair , how he designs In them at once to ruin all mankind : Go therefore , half this day as friend with friend ...
... Satan , from hell scap'd through the darksome gulf , Hath rais'd in paradise , and how disturb'd This night the human pair , how he designs In them at once to ruin all mankind : Go therefore , half this day as friend with friend ...
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... Satan , so call him now , his former name Is heard no more in heav'n ; he of the first , If not the first arch - angel , great in power , In favour and preeminence , yet fraught With envy against the Son of God , that day Honour'd by ...
... Satan , so call him now , his former name Is heard no more in heav'n ; he of the first , If not the first arch - angel , great in power , In favour and preeminence , yet fraught With envy against the Son of God , that day Honour'd by ...
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... Satan with his powers was advanc'd on winged speed , an host umerable as the stars of night , stars of morning , dewdrops , which the sun pearls on every leaf and every flower . ions they pass'd , the mighty regencies Seraphim , and ...
... Satan with his powers was advanc'd on winged speed , an host umerable as the stars of night , stars of morning , dewdrops , which the sun pearls on every leaf and every flower . ions they pass'd , the mighty regencies Seraphim , and ...
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... Satan to his royal seat High on a hill , far blazing , as a mount Rais'd on a mount , with pyramids and tow'rs 755 From diamond quarries hewn , and rocks of gold , The palace of great Lucifer ; so call That structure in the dialect of ...
... Satan to his royal seat High on a hill , far blazing , as a mount Rais'd on a mount , with pyramids and tow'rs 755 From diamond quarries hewn , and rocks of gold , The palace of great Lucifer ; so call That structure in the dialect of ...
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... Satan and his angels . The first fight described : Satan and his powers retire under night : he calls a council , invents devilish engines , which in the second day's fight put Michael and his angels to some disorder ; but they at ...
... Satan and his angels . The first fight described : Satan and his powers retire under night : he calls a council , invents devilish engines , which in the second day's fight put Michael and his angels to some disorder ; but they at ...
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Abdiel Adam Adamus Exsul angels answer'd appear'd arms aught beast behold Bentl Bentley bliss BOOK call'd Cherubim cloud dark death delight divine Du Bartas Dunster dwell Dyce earth Epig eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fear Fenton flow'rs fruit giv'n glory ground hand happy hast hath heard heart heav'n heav'nly hell highth hill honour join'd king lest light live lost mankind Messiah Milton's own edition morn Newton nigh night Ovid paradise PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAINED Parthian pass'd rais'd reign reply'd return'd sapience Satan Saviour seat seem'd serpent Shakesp shalt sight Son of God soon spake Spens spirits stars stood sung sweet taste tempter thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne Todd tree turn'd vex'd Virg virtue voice whence wings
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Page 279 - 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...
Page 171 - But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 6 - 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.
Page 262 - Since thy original lapse, true liberty Is lost, which always with right reason dwells Twinn'd, and from her hath no dividual being : Reason in man obscur'd, or not obey'd, Immediately inordinate desires And upstart passions catch the government From reason, and to servitude reduce Man till then free.
Page 123 - Us happy, and without love no happiness. Whatever pure thou in the body enjoy'st (And pure thou wert created), we enjoy In eminence, and obstacle find none Of membrane, joint, or limb, exclusive bars. Easier than air with air, if spirits embrace, Total they mix, union of pure with pure Desiring ; nor restrain'd conveyance need, As flesh to mix with flesh, or soul with soul.
Page 4 - Reason as chief: among these, Fancy next Her office holds; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when Nature rests.
Page 35 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 220 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judg'd us, prostrate fall Before him reverent; and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg; with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd, and humilation meek?
Page 140 - Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew ; and, like a wood-nymph light, Oread or Dryad, or of Delia's train, Betook her to the groves ; but Delia's self In gait...
Page 143 - As one, who long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...