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Page 108
... Cherub ! to be weak is miserable , Doing or suffering : but of this be sure , To do aught good never will be our task ; But ever to do ill our sole delight , As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist . If then his providence ...
... Cherub ! to be weak is miserable , Doing or suffering : but of this be sure , To do aught good never will be our task ; But ever to do ill our sole delight , As being the contrary to his high will Whom we resist . If then his providence ...
Page 113
... Cherub and Seraph rolling in the flood With scattered arms and ensigns ; till anon His swift pursuers from heaven - gates discern The ' advantage , and , descending , tread us down Thus drooping : or with linked thunderbolts Transfix us ...
... Cherub and Seraph rolling in the flood With scattered arms and ensigns ; till anon His swift pursuers from heaven - gates discern The ' advantage , and , descending , tread us down Thus drooping : or with linked thunderbolts Transfix us ...
Page 119
... Cherub tall ; Who forthwith from the glittering staff unfurl'd The ' imperial ensign ; which , full high advanced , Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind , With gems and golden lustre rich imblazed , Seraphic arms and trophies : all ...
... Cherub tall ; Who forthwith from the glittering staff unfurl'd The ' imperial ensign ; which , full high advanced , Shone like a meteor streaming to the wind , With gems and golden lustre rich imblazed , Seraphic arms and trophies : all ...
Page 179
... cherub he appears , Not of the prime , yet such as in his face Youth smiled celestial , and to every limb Suitable grace diffused , so well he feign'd : Under a coronet his flowing hair In curls on either cheek play'd : wings he wore Of ...
... cherub he appears , Not of the prime , yet such as in his face Youth smiled celestial , and to every limb Suitable grace diffused , so well he feign'd : Under a coronet his flowing hair In curls on either cheek play'd : wings he wore Of ...
Page 208
... Cherub ; and his grava rebuke , Severe in youthful beauty , added grace Invincible : abash'd the Devil stood , And felt how awful goodness is , and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw , and pined His loss but chiefly to find here ...
... Cherub ; and his grava rebuke , Severe in youthful beauty , added grace Invincible : abash'd the Devil stood , And felt how awful goodness is , and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely ; saw , and pined His loss but chiefly to find here ...
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Abdiel Adam Almighty angels appear'd arm'd arms battle Beelzebub behold blank verse bliss burning lake call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim clouds Comus dark daughter death deep delight divine dread earth eternal etherial evil eyes fair Fair Angel fall Father fear fell fire flames friends Gabriel glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heaven heavenly Hell highth hill hope host infernal Ithuriel John Milton join'd King Latin less light Lycidas mankind Messiah Milton mind Moloch nature never night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass'd perhaps poem poet poetry praise rage reason reign revenge rhyme round Satan seem'd seems Seraph Seraphim shade sight soon spake Spirits stood sweet Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself turn'd Uriel verse vex'd whence winds wings wonder Zephon
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.