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... bliss ) condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain ; Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced Of Heaven , and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood , Their glory withered : as when Heaven's ...
... bliss ) condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain ; Millions of Spirits for his fault amerced Of Heaven , and from eternal splendours flung For his revolt ; yet faithful how they stood , Their glory withered : as when Heaven's ...
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... bliss , condemned 86 In this abhorred deep to utter woe ; Where pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end , The vassals of his anger , when the scourge Inexorably , and the torturing hour , Calls us to penance ...
... bliss , condemned 86 In this abhorred deep to utter woe ; Where pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end , The vassals of his anger , when the scourge Inexorably , and the torturing hour , Calls us to penance ...
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... bliss , Faded so soon . Advise , if this be worth Attempting , or to sit in darkness here Hatching vain empires . Thus Beelzebub Pleaded his devilish counsel , first devised By Satan , and in part proposed : For whence 355 363 372 380 ...
... bliss , Faded so soon . Advise , if this be worth Attempting , or to sit in darkness here Hatching vain empires . Thus Beelzebub Pleaded his devilish counsel , first devised By Satan , and in part proposed : For whence 355 363 372 380 ...
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... bliss In the pourlieus of Heaven , and therein placed A race of upstart creatures , to supply Perhaps our vacant room ; though more removed , Lest Heaven , surcharged with potent multitude , Might hap to move new broils . Be this or ...
... bliss In the pourlieus of Heaven , and therein placed A race of upstart creatures , to supply Perhaps our vacant room ; though more removed , Lest Heaven , surcharged with potent multitude , Might hap to move new broils . Be this or ...
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... bliss , among The Gods who live at ease , where I shall reign At thy right hand voluptuous , as beseems Thy daughter and thy darling , without end . Thus saying , from her side the fatal key , Sad instrument of all our woe , she took ...
... bliss , among The Gods who live at ease , where I shall reign At thy right hand voluptuous , as beseems Thy daughter and thy darling , without end . Thus saying , from her side the fatal key , Sad instrument of all our woe , she took ...
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Abdiel Adam adore Almighty angelick Angels Arch-Angel arms battle Beelzebub behold Belial bliss burning lake celestial chariot Cherub Cherubim cloud creatures dark deeds deep delight Designed & Engraved divine dread earth equal eternal ethereal evil fair Fair Angel fall Father fear fell Fiend fierce fiery fire flames flowers gates glory Gods gold golden grace hand happy hast hate hath Heaven heavenly Hell highth hill honour horrid horrour host infernal Ithuriel King legions less light Messiah Moloch night o'er once ordained pain PARADISE LOST praise rage reign revenge round Satan Satan return scaped seat seemed Seraph Seraphim shade shalt shape sight soon sovran spake Spirits stood sweet taste terrour Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself Uriel wall of Heaven Weening whence winds wings wonder Zephon
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Page 138 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 13 - Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 162 - Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky, or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 139 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others...
Page 136 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 114 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 81 - Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun, Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising World of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite...
Page 138 - 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...
Page 83 - 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, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 161 - 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.