Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, to which is Added, the Force of ReligionPhillips & Sampson, 1848 |
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... happy seat Of some new race call'd Man , about this time To be created like to us , though less In power and excellence , but favour'd more 350 Of Him who rules above ; so was his will Pronounced among the Gods , and by an oath , That ...
... happy seat Of some new race call'd Man , about this time To be created like to us , though less In power and excellence , but favour'd more 350 Of Him who rules above ; so was his will Pronounced among the Gods , and by an oath , That ...
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... happy isle ? What strength , what art can then Suffice , or what evasion bear him safe 411 Through the strict senteries and stations thick Of Angels watching round ? Here he had need All circumspection ; and we now no less Choice in our ...
... happy isle ? What strength , what art can then Suffice , or what evasion bear him safe 411 Through the strict senteries and stations thick Of Angels watching round ? Here he had need All circumspection ; and we now no less Choice in our ...
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... happy garden placed , Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love , Uninterrupted joy , unrival'd love , In blissful solitude ; he then survey'd Hell and the gulf between , and Satan there Coasting the wall of Heaven on this side Night In ...
... happy garden placed , Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love , Uninterrupted joy , unrival'd love , In blissful solitude ; he then survey'd Hell and the gulf between , and Satan there Coasting the wall of Heaven on this side Night In ...
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... Happy for Man , so coming : he her aid Can never seek , once dead in sins , and lost ; Atonement for himself , or offering meet , Indebted and undone , hath none to bring ; 235 Behold me then me for him , life for life I offer ; on me ...
... Happy for Man , so coming : he her aid Can never seek , once dead in sins , and lost ; Atonement for himself , or offering meet , Indebted and undone , hath none to bring ; 235 Behold me then me for him , life for life I offer ; on me ...
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... happy hours in joy and hymning spent . Meanwhile upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world , whose first convex divides The luminous inferior orbs , enclosed 420 From Chaos and the inroad of Darkness old , Satan alighted walks : a ...
... happy hours in joy and hymning spent . Meanwhile upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world , whose first convex divides The luminous inferior orbs , enclosed 420 From Chaos and the inroad of Darkness old , Satan alighted walks : a ...
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Adam adore ambition ambrosial Angels Archangel art thou behold beneath bless'd bliss breast call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud dark days of Heaven death deep Deity delight divine dread dust dwell earth eternal ethereal evil fair Fair Angel fate Father fear fire flame fruit glorious glory Godhead Gods guilt happy hast hath heart Heaven heavenly Hell hope hour human immortal know'st labour light live Lorenzo man's mankind mind mortal Nature Nature's night nought numbers o'er Omnipotence ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace pleasure praise pride proud rapture Reason reign return'd rise round sapience Satan scape scene seem'd Seraph shade shines sight skies smile song soon soul spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thought throne thyself tree truth turn'd vex'd virtue whence wing wisdom wise wonder
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Page 92 - 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
Page 55 - 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 290 - 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 82 - Imbrown'd the noontide bowers : Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm. Others whose fruit, burnish'd with golden rind, Hung amiable, Hesperian fables true, If true, here only, and of delicious taste...
Page 6 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire ; that were low indeed, That were an ignominy...
Page 25 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 57 - He and his faithless progeny. Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page 9 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 105 - 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 50 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.