Paradise Lost and Regained: With the Latin and Other Poems of John Milton, Volume 2H. Washbourne, 1810 |
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... voice , their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers , heard so oft , In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge Of battle when it rag'd , in all assaults Their surest signal they will soon resume New courage , and revive ...
... voice , their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers , heard so oft , In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge Of battle when it rag'd , in all assaults Their surest signal they will soon resume New courage , and revive ...
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... voice they soon obey'd Innumerable . As when the potent rod Of Amram's son , in Egypt's evil day , Wav'd round the coast , up call'd a pitchy cloud Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung ...
... voice they soon obey'd Innumerable . As when the potent rod Of Amram's son , in Egypt's evil day , Wav'd round the coast , up call'd a pitchy cloud Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung ...
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... a fabrick huge Rose like an exhalation , with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet , Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Dorick pillars overlaid With golden architrave 28 BOOK I. PARADISE LOST .
... a fabrick huge Rose like an exhalation , with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet , Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Dorick pillars overlaid With golden architrave 28 BOOK I. PARADISE LOST .
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... voice dissuades ; for what can force or guile With him , or who deceive his mind , whose eye Views all things at one view ? He from Heaven's highth All these our motions vain sees , and derides ; Not more almighty to resist our might ...
... voice dissuades ; for what can force or guile With him , or who deceive his mind , whose eye Views all things at one view ? He from Heaven's highth All these our motions vain sees , and derides ; Not more almighty to resist our might ...
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... voice Forbidding ; and at once with him they rose : Their rising all at once , was as the sound Of thunder heard remote . Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone ; and as a God Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven : Nor ...
... voice Forbidding ; and at once with him they rose : Their rising all at once , was as the sound Of thunder heard remote . Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone ; and as a God Extol him equal to the Highest in Heaven : Nor ...
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Adam Alcinous Almighty Angels answer'd appear'd arm'd arms beast Beelzebub behold Belial bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherubim cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deep delight divine dreadful dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fear fierce fire fix'd flaming flowers fruit glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell highth hill Iliad Ithuriel join'd King less lest light LINE live mankind Messiah Milton Moloch mov'd night numbers o'er ordain'd Oreb pain PARADISE LOST pass'd peace pleas'd rais'd reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd Seraph Serpent shalt sight soon sovran spake Spirits stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree turn'd Uriel vex'd voice whence wings wonder words Zephon
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Page 130 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, 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; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 3 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe. With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat...
Page 79 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 5 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 4 - And chiefly thou O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure...
Page 24 - Above them all the archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrench'd; and care Sat on his faded cheek; but under brows .Of dauntless courage, and considerate pride Waiting revenge; cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion, to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss,) condemn'd For ever now to have their lot in pain...
Page 53 - Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace ; and, God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife, Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy : As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enow besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
Page 77 - Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream, 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 10 The rising World of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite!
Page 177 - 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 461 - But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O GOD, is for ever and ever; a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore GOD, even thy GOD, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.