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Page viii
... should find O'er which lame faith leads understanding blind ; Left he perplex'd the things he would explain , And what was eafy he should render vain . Or if a work fo infinite he spann'd , Jealous I was that fome lefs skilful hand ...
... should find O'er which lame faith leads understanding blind ; Left he perplex'd the things he would explain , And what was eafy he should render vain . Or if a work fo infinite he spann'd , Jealous I was that fome lefs skilful hand ...
Page xvi
... should be there doing fome harm to Adam or Eve fleeping ; there they find him at the ear of Eve , tempting her in a dream , and bring him , though unwilling to Gabriel ; by whom question'd , he scornfully answers , prepares resistance ...
... should be there doing fome harm to Adam or Eve fleeping ; there they find him at the ear of Eve , tempting her in a dream , and bring him , though unwilling to Gabriel ; by whom question'd , he scornfully answers , prepares resistance ...
Page xviii
... should attempt her found alone : Eve loath to be thought not circumspect or firm enough , urges her going apart , the rather defirous to make tryal of her ftrength ; Adam at last yields : The Serpent finds her alone ; his fubtle ...
... should attempt her found alone : Eve loath to be thought not circumspect or firm enough , urges her going apart , the rather defirous to make tryal of her ftrength ; Adam at last yields : The Serpent finds her alone ; his fubtle ...
Page 11
... should be , all but less then hee Whom Thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free ; th ' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy , will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure , and in my choyce To reign is worth ...
... should be , all but less then hee Whom Thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free ; th ' Almighty hath not built Here for his envy , will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure , and in my choyce To reign is worth ...
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... went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long Intended to create , and therein plant A generation , whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven : 649 Thither , if but to prie , shall be perhaps Book I. 23 PARADISE LOST .
... went a fame in Heav'n that he ere long Intended to create , and therein plant A generation , whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the Sons of Heaven : 649 Thither , if but to prie , shall be perhaps Book I. 23 PARADISE LOST .
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