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... death , and misery , Death's harbinger : sad task , yet argument Not less but more heroic than the wrath Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued Thrice fugitive about Troy - wall ; or rage Of Turnus for Lavinia disespous'd ; Or Neptune's ...
... death , and misery , Death's harbinger : sad task , yet argument Not less but more heroic than the wrath Of stern Achilles on his foe pursued Thrice fugitive about Troy - wall ; or rage Of Turnus for Lavinia disespous'd ; Or Neptune's ...
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... du départ , De retour du travail , et couchée à l'écart , Sous ce berceau voisin , je l'écoutois ; sa bouche Te parloit de dangers , d'un ennemi farouche : As we ( not capable of death or pain ) PARADIS PERDU , LIV . IX . 29.
... du départ , De retour du travail , et couchée à l'écart , Sous ce berceau voisin , je l'écoutois ; sa bouche Te parloit de dangers , d'un ennemi farouche : As we ( not capable of death or pain ) PARADIS PERDU , LIV . IX . 29.
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Jacques Delille. As we ( not capable of death or pain ) Can either not receive , or can repel . His fraud is then thy fear ; which plain infers ' Thy equal fear , that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduc'd ...
Jacques Delille. As we ( not capable of death or pain ) Can either not receive , or can repel . His fraud is then thy fear ; which plain infers ' Thy equal fear , that my firm faith and love Can by his fraud be shaken or seduc'd ...
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... this universe ! do not believe Those rigid threats of death : ye shall not die : How should you ? -by the fruit ? it gives you life Sur le large contour de son corps tortueux Il s'assied 62 v . 666 . PARADISE LOST , B. IX .
... this universe ! do not believe Those rigid threats of death : ye shall not die : How should you ? -by the fruit ? it gives you life Sur le large contour de son corps tortueux Il s'assied 62 v . 666 . PARADISE LOST , B. IX .
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... death denounc'd , whatever thing death be , Deterr'd not from achieving what might lead To happier life , knowledge of good and evil ; Of good , how just ? of evil , if what is evil Be real , why not known , since easier shunn'd ? God ...
... death denounc'd , whatever thing death be , Deterr'd not from achieving what might lead To happier life , knowledge of good and evil ; Of good , how just ? of evil , if what is evil Be real , why not known , since easier shunn'd ? God ...
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Adam affreux angel avoit beast beauté behold best bright bring bruise céleste charmes Cher ciel cieux cloud cœur courroux crime death déja Dieu divin doom douleur doux dwell earth Éden encens envy époux Ève evil eyes faith fear find first foiblesse forth found fruit glory gods good grace great ground hand hath head heard heart heaven hell high his punishment hope know l'Éternel l'homme last leave left lieux life light live lost love made make malheur mankind maux Milton mind monde mort night offspring PARADIS PERDU paradise peace perhaps poëte power race replied return return'd Satan scorn seed seem'd serpent seul shame sight soon spake stood stroke sweet taste terre their thence things thou thou hast though thought tout-à-coup tree tree Of knowledge trépas virtue words works world yeux
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Page 196 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Page 356 - For God is also in sleep ; and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep : but now lead on — In me is no delay : with thee to go, Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence. This further consolation yet secure I carry hence ; though all by me is lost, Such favour I, unworthy,...
Page 246 - At even, which I bred up with tender hand From the first opening bud, and gave ye names, Who now shall rear ye to the sun, or rank Your tribes, and water from the ambrosial fount ? Thee, lastly, nuptial bower, by me...
Page 354 - Charity, the soul Of all the rest : then wilt thou not be loath To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A Paradise within thee, happier far.
Page 194 - With other echo late I taught your shades To answer, and resound far other song. » Whom thus afflicted when sad Eve beheld,, Desolate where she sat, approaching nigh, Soft words to his fierce passion she assay'd : But her with stern regard he thus repell'd : <i Out of my sight, thou serpent!
Page 50 - To interrupt, sidelong he works his way. As when a ship, by skilful steersman wrought, Nigh river's mouth or foreland, where the wind Veers oft, as oft so steers, and shifts her sail: So varied he, and of his tortuous train Curl'd many a wanton wreath in sight of Eve, To lure her eye...
Page 74 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 358 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms.
Page 6 - I now must change Those notes to tragic ; foul distrust, and breach Disloyal on the part of man, revolt, And disobedience...
Page 312 - Whereto thus Adam, fatherly displeas'd. " O execrable son ! so to aspire Above his brethren ; to himself assuming Authority usurp'd, from God not given : He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl, Dominion absolute ; that right we hold By his donation ; but man over men He made not lord ; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.