The Paradise Lost of Milton, Volume 1Septimus Prowett, 1827 - 24 pages |
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... If once they hear that voice , their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers , heard so oft In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge 251 259 268 276 Of battle when it raged , in all assaults Their BOOK 1. ] 13 PARADISE LOST .
... If once they hear that voice , their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers , heard so oft In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge 251 259 268 276 Of battle when it raged , in all assaults Their BOOK 1. ] 13 PARADISE LOST .
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... voice they soon obeyed ; Innumerable . As when the potent rod Of Amram's son , in Egypt's evil day , Waved round the coast , up called a pitchy cloud Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung ...
... voice they soon obeyed ; Innumerable . As when the potent rod Of Amram's son , in Egypt's evil day , Waved round the coast , up called a pitchy cloud Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung ...
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... voices sweet , Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Dorick pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or freeze , with bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold . Not Babylon ...
... voices sweet , Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Dorick pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or freeze , with bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold . Not Babylon ...
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... voice dissuades ; for what can force or guile With him , or who deceive his mind , whose eye 173 181 Views all things at one view ? He from Heaven's highth 190 All these our motions vain sees , and derides ; Not more almighty to resist ...
... voice dissuades ; for what can force or guile With him , or who deceive his mind , whose eye 173 181 Views all things at one view ? He from Heaven's highth 190 All these our motions vain sees , and derides ; Not more almighty to resist ...
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... voice Forbidding ; and at once with him they rose : Their rising all at once , was as the sound But they 459 467 476 Of thunder heard remote . Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone ; and as a God Extol him equal to the ...
... voice Forbidding ; and at once with him they rose : Their rising all at once , was as the sound But they 459 467 476 Of thunder heard remote . Towards him they bend With awful reverence prone ; and as a God Extol him equal to the ...
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Page 138 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 13 - Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 162 - Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky, or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 139 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others...
Page 136 - 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 114 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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...
Page 81 - 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 The rising World of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite...
Page 138 - 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...
Page 83 - 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 161 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, , Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.