The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... darkness call'd up light . Air , and ye elements the eldest birth Of nature's womb , that in quaternion run Perpetual circle , multiform , and mix 180 185 And nourish all things , let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still ...
... darkness call'd up light . Air , and ye elements the eldest birth Of nature's womb , that in quaternion run Perpetual circle , multiform , and mix 180 185 And nourish all things , let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still ...
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... dark . 205 210 So pray'd they innocent , and to their thoughts Firm peace recover'd soon and wonted calm . On to their morning's rural work they haste , Among sweet dews and flowers , where any row Of fruit - trees overwoody reach'd too ...
... dark . 205 210 So pray'd they innocent , and to their thoughts Firm peace recover'd soon and wonted calm . On to their morning's rural work they haste , Among sweet dews and flowers , where any row Of fruit - trees overwoody reach'd too ...
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... darkness , deep ingulf'd , his place Ordain'd without redemption , without end . 610 615 So spake th ' Omnipotent , and with his words All seem'd well pleas'd ; all seem'd , but were not all . That day , as other solemn days , they ...
... darkness , deep ingulf'd , his place Ordain'd without redemption , without end . 610 615 So spake th ' Omnipotent , and with his words All seem'd well pleas'd ; all seem'd , but were not all . That day , as other solemn days , they ...
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... darker veil , and roseate dews dispos'd All but the unsleeping eyes of GOD to rest , Wide over all the plain , and wider far 633 rubied ] Nectar of the colour of rubies . Hom . Il . xix . 88 , νέκταρ ἐρυθρόν . Newton . 637 In the first ...
... darker veil , and roseate dews dispos'd All but the unsleeping eyes of GOD to rest , Wide over all the plain , and wider far 633 rubied ] Nectar of the colour of rubies . Hom . Il . xix . 88 , νέκταρ ἐρυθρόν . Newton . 637 In the first ...
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... darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns , which makes through heaven 7 Lodge ] This thought borrowed from Hesiod . Theog . 748 . Newton . 5 Grateful vicissitude , like day and night : Light issues 38 ...
... darkness in perpetual round Lodge and dislodge by turns , which makes through heaven 7 Lodge ] This thought borrowed from Hesiod . Theog . 748 . Newton . 5 Grateful vicissitude , like day and night : Light issues 38 ...
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Adam Adamus Exsul angels answer'd appear'd arms aught battel beast behold Bentl Bentley bliss bright call'd cherubim cloud dark days of heaven death delight divine Du Bartas Dunster dwell Dyce earth eternal evil eyes fair Father fear Fenton fruit glory ground hand happy hast hath heard heart heaven heavenly hell highth hill honour join'd king lest light live Lord mankind may'st Messiah Milton's own edition morn Newton nigh night Ovid paradise PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAINED pass'd Proserpina rais'd Raphael reign reply'd return'd sapience Satan Saviour seat seem'd serpent Shakesp shalt sight Son of God soon spake Spens spirits stars stood sweet taste tempter thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself Todd tree turn'd vex'd Virg virtue voice wand'ring whence wings
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Page 37 - 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 6 - 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 173 - 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 21 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours ; Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Page 280 - So shall the World go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning, till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked...
Page 281 - 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 358 - Think not but that I know these things; or, think I know them not, not therefore am I short Of knowing what I ought. He who receives Light from above, from the Fountain of Light, No other doctrine needs, though granted true; 290 But these are false, or little else but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.
Page 129 - Nor skill'd nor studious, higher argument Remains ; sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing 45 Depress'd ; and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers, who brings it nightly to my ear.
Page 8 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, ™ To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 214 - And straight conjunction with this sex : for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...