The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2William Pickering, 1852 |
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... hear'st what stir on earth Satan , from hell scap'd through the darksome gulf , Hath rais'd in paradise , and how disturb'd This night the human pair , how he designs In them at once to ruin all mankind : Go therefore , half this day as ...
... hear'st what stir on earth Satan , from hell scap'd through the darksome gulf , Hath rais'd in paradise , and how disturb'd This night the human pair , how he designs In them at once to ruin all mankind : Go therefore , half this day as ...
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... ; and both contain Within them every lower faculty 410 Of sense , whereby they hear , see , smell , touch , taste , Tasting concoct , digest , assimilate , And corporeal to incorporeal turn . For know , whatever 18 PARADISE LOST .
... ; and both contain Within them every lower faculty 410 Of sense , whereby they hear , see , smell , touch , taste , Tasting concoct , digest , assimilate , And corporeal to incorporeal turn . For know , whatever 18 PARADISE LOST .
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... hear , if thou consent , The full relation , which must needs be strange , Worthy of sacred silence to be heard ; And we have yet large day , for scarce the sun Hath finish'd half his journey , and scarce begins His other half in the ...
... hear , if thou consent , The full relation , which must needs be strange , Worthy of sacred silence to be heard ; And we have yet large day , for scarce the sun Hath finish'd half his journey , and scarce begins His other half in the ...
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... Hear all ye Angels , progeny of light , Thrones , Dominations , Princedoms , Virtues , Powers , 579 pois'd ] Ov . Met . 1. 13. Ponderibus librata suis . ' Newton . · 595 600 001 Thrones ] By all the Thrones , and Dominations , Vir- Hear ...
... Hear all ye Angels , progeny of light , Thrones , Dominations , Princedoms , Virtues , Powers , 579 pois'd ] Ov . Met . 1. 13. Ponderibus librata suis . ' Newton . · 595 600 001 Thrones ] By all the Thrones , and Dominations , Vir- Hear ...
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John Mitford. Hear my decree , which unrevok'd shall stand . This day I have begot whom I declare 605 My only Son , and on this holy hill Him have anointed , whom ye now behold At my right hand ; your head I him appoint ; And by my Self ...
John Mitford. Hear my decree , which unrevok'd shall stand . This day I have begot whom I declare 605 My only Son , and on this holy hill Him have anointed , whom ye now behold At my right hand ; your head I him appoint ; And by my Self ...
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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 232 - That never will in other climate grow, My early visitation, and my last 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 8 - 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.
Page 240 - Tended the sick, busiest from couch to couch ; And over them triumphant Death his dart Shook, but delay'd to strike, though oft invoked With vows, as their chief good, and final hope.
Page 112 - By quick instinctive motion, up I sprung, As thitherward endeavouring, and upright Stood on my feet : about me round I saw Hill, dale, and shady woods, and sunny plains, And liquid lapse of murmuring streams; by these, Creatures that liv'd and mov'd, and walk'd, or flew ; Birds on the branches warbling; all things smil'd; With fragrance and with joy my heart o'erflow'd.
Page 242 - I yield it just, said Adam, and submit. But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with our connatural dust? There is...
Page 103 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather : he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses ; from his lip Not words alone pleas,d her.
Page 220 - What better can we do, than, to the place Repairing where he judg'd us, prostrate fall Before him reverent; and there confess Humbly our faults, and pardon beg; with tears Watering the ground, and with our sighs the air Frequenting, sent from hearts contrite, in sign Of sorrow unfeign'd, and humilation meek?
Page 142 - Thus saying, from her husband's hand her hand Soft she withdrew ; and, like a wood-nymph light, Oread or Dryad, or of Delia's train, Betook her to the groves ; but Delia's self In gait...
Page 232 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death ! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise ? thus leave Thee, native soil ! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods ? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both.