Milton's Poetical Works, Volume 1J. Nichol, 1853 - 661 pages |
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... heaven , but tells them lastly of a new world , and a new kind of creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven ; for , that angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient ...
... heaven , but tells them lastly of a new world , and a new kind of creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven ; for , that angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient ...
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... Heaven hides nothing from thy view , Nor the deep tract of Hell ; say first , what cause Moved our grand Parents , in that happy state , Favour'd of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one ...
... Heaven hides nothing from thy view , Nor the deep tract of Hell ; say first , what cause Moved our grand Parents , in that happy state , Favour'd of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one ...
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... Heaven called Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid silence , thus began : If thou beest he ; but O , how fallen ! how chang'd From him , who , in the happy realms of light , Cloth'd with transcendent brightness , didst outshine ...
... Heaven called Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid silence , thus began : If thou beest he ; but O , how fallen ! how chang'd From him , who , in the happy realms of light , Cloth'd with transcendent brightness , didst outshine ...
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... Heaven's perpetual King , And put to proof his high supremacy , Whether upheld by strength , or chance , or fate ; Too well I see and rue the dire event , That with sad overthrow , and foul defeat , Hath lost us Heaven , and all this ...
... Heaven's perpetual King , And put to proof his high supremacy , Whether upheld by strength , or chance , or fate ; Too well I see and rue the dire event , That with sad overthrow , and foul defeat , Hath lost us Heaven , and all this ...
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... Heaven ; this mournful gloom , For that celestial light ? Be it so ! since he , Who now is Sovran , can dispose ... Heaven of Hell , a Hell of Heaven . What matter where , if I be still the same , And what I should be - all but less than ...
... Heaven ; this mournful gloom , For that celestial light ? Be it so ! since he , Who now is Sovran , can dispose ... Heaven of Hell , a Hell of Heaven . What matter where , if I be still the same , And what I should be - all but less than ...
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Adam Adramelech Almighty Angel answer'd appear'd arm'd arms Aroer aught beast Beelzebub behold bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherubim cloud creatures Cronian dark death deep delight divine dreadful dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fear fierce fire fix'd flowers fruit glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell highth hill Imaus John Milton join'd King lest light live lost mankind Messiah Milton morn night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Paradise Lost pass'd peace pleas'd praise reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd Seraph serpent shalt Sibma sight Smectymnuus soon sovran spake Spirits St Paul's school stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree turn'd Uriel vex'd voice whence winds wings wonder
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Page 22 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, 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 12 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 247 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, 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: those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe ;...
Page 104 - 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 145 - 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 4 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 64 - 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 13 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch, On duty sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 210 - O'er other creatures : yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 87 - Which now sat high in his meridian tower : Then, much revolving, thus in sighs began. ' 0 thou, that with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like' the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd 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...