The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 29Bell and Daldy, 1866 |
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... 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 Converse with Adam , in what bower or shade 230 Thou find'st ...
... 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 Converse with Adam , in what bower or shade 230 Thou find'st ...
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... hath dispens'd his bounties as in heav'n . 330 what ] See Dante , Il Purgatorio , c . xii . • Vedi colà un ' Angel , che s ' appresta Per venir verso noi . ' morn ] See Crashaw's Delights , p . 52 . = Who's this that comes arched in ...
... hath dispens'd his bounties as in heav'n . 330 what ] See Dante , Il Purgatorio , c . xii . • Vedi colà un ' Angel , che s ' appresta Per venir verso noi . ' morn ] See Crashaw's Delights , p . 52 . = Who's this that comes arched in ...
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... hath caus'd The earth to yield ; unsavoury food , perhaps , To spiritual natures : only this I know , That one celestial Father gives to all . 400 405 To whom the angel . Therefore what he gives , Whose praise be ever sung , to man in ...
... hath caus'd The earth to yield ; unsavoury food , perhaps , To spiritual natures : only this I know , That one celestial Father gives to all . 400 405 To whom the angel . Therefore what he gives , Whose praise be ever sung , to man in ...
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... hath here 430 ed his bounty so with new delights , ay compare with heaven ; and to taste < not I shall be nice . So down they sat , to their viands fell ; nor seemingly angel , nor in mist , the common gloss noist ] Marino's Sl . of the ...
... hath here 430 ed his bounty so with new delights , ay compare with heaven ; and to taste < not I shall be nice . So down they sat , to their viands fell ; nor seemingly angel , nor in mist , the common gloss noist ] Marino's Sl . of the ...
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... Hath past in heav'n , some doubt within me move , But more desire to hear , if thou consent , The full relation , which must needs be strange , Worthy of sacred silence to be heard ; And we have yet large day , for scarce the sun Hath ...
... Hath past in heav'n , some doubt within me move , But more desire to hear , if thou consent , The full relation , which must needs be strange , Worthy of sacred silence to be heard ; And we have yet large day , for scarce the sun Hath ...
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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...