The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 29Bell and Daldy, 1866 |
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... less assur'd , observes Imagin'd lands and regions in the moon : Or pilot from amidst the Cyclades Delos , or Samos , first appearing kens 265 A cloudy spot . Down thither prone in flight He speeds , and through the vast ethereal sky ...
... less assur'd , observes Imagin'd lands and regions in the moon : Or pilot from amidst the Cyclades Delos , or Samos , first appearing kens 265 A cloudy spot . Down thither prone in flight He speeds , and through the vast ethereal sky ...
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... less , eedom equal ? or can introduce and edict on us , who without law not ? much less for this to be our Lord , knee ] Shakesp . Richard II . act i . scene iv . 785 790 795 And had the tribute of his supple knee . ' Todd . much less ...
... less , eedom equal ? or can introduce and edict on us , who without law not ? much less for this to be our Lord , knee ] Shakesp . Richard II . act i . scene iv . 785 790 795 And had the tribute of his supple knee . ' Todd . much less ...
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... Yet by experience taught we know how good , And of our good , and of our dignity How provident he is , how far from thought To make us less , bent rather to exalt happy state under one head more near ted . But 34 PARADISE LOST .
... Yet by experience taught we know how good , And of our good , and of our dignity How provident he is , how far from thought To make us less , bent rather to exalt happy state under one head more near ted . But 34 PARADISE LOST .
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... less for that The flaming seraph fearless , though alone Encompass'd round with foes , thus answer'd bold . O alienate from GOD , O spirit accurst , Forsaken of all good , I see thy fall Determin'd , and thy hapless crew involv'd In ...
... less for that The flaming seraph fearless , though alone Encompass'd round with foes , thus answer'd bold . O alienate from GOD , O spirit accurst , Forsaken of all good , I see thy fall Determin'd , and thy hapless crew involv'd In ...
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... less dread the loud Ethereal trumpet from on high gan blow : At which command the powers militant That stood for heav'n , in mighty quadrate join'd 60 Ethereal ] Archangel . Bentl . MS . ნი ion irresistible , mov'd on ence their ...
... less dread the loud Ethereal trumpet from on high gan blow : At which command the powers militant That stood for heav'n , in mighty quadrate join'd 60 Ethereal ] Archangel . Bentl . MS . ნი ion irresistible , mov'd on ence their ...
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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...