Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, to which is Added, the Force of Religion |
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Glows my resentment into guilt ? what guilt Can equal violations of the dead ?
190 The dead how sacred ! sacred is the dust Of this heaven - labour'd form ,
erect , divine ! This heaven - assumed , majestic robe of earth He deign'd to wear
...
Glows my resentment into guilt ? what guilt Can equal violations of the dead ?
190 The dead how sacred ! sacred is the dust Of this heaven - labour'd form ,
erect , divine ! This heaven - assumed , majestic robe of earth He deign'd to wear
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Considering the divine attributes , the first is too gross to be digested by our
strongest wishes ; and , since Omnipotence is as much a divine attribute as
Holiness , that God cannot punish is as absurd a supposition as the former . God
certainly ...
Considering the divine attributes , the first is too gross to be digested by our
strongest wishes ; and , since Omnipotence is as much a divine attribute as
Holiness , that God cannot punish is as absurd a supposition as the former . God
certainly ...
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Heaven , others , and ourselves ! uninjured these , Drink deep ; the deeper , then
, the more divine : 675 Angals are angels from indulgence there . ' Tis
unrepenting pleasure makes a god ! Dost think thyself a god from other joys ? A
victim ...
Heaven , others , and ourselves ! uninjured these , Drink deep ; the deeper , then
, the more divine : 675 Angals are angels from indulgence there . ' Tis
unrepenting pleasure makes a god ! Dost think thyself a god from other joys ? A
victim ...
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By condescension , as thy glory , great , Enshrined in man ! of human hearts , if
pure , 2280 Divine inhabitant ! the tie divine Of heaven with distant earth ! by
whom , I trust , ( If not inspired ) uncensured this address To Thee , to Them — to
...
By condescension , as thy glory , great , Enshrined in man ! of human hearts , if
pure , 2280 Divine inhabitant ! the tie divine Of heaven with distant earth ! by
whom , I trust , ( If not inspired ) uncensured this address To Thee , to Them — to
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Thus darkness aiding intellectual light , And sacred Silence whispering truths
divine , And truths divine converting pain to peace , 2410 My song the midnight
raven has outwing'd , And shot , ambitious of unbounded scenes , Beyond the ...
Thus darkness aiding intellectual light , And sacred Silence whispering truths
divine , And truths divine converting pain to peace , 2410 My song the midnight
raven has outwing'd , And shot , ambitious of unbounded scenes , Beyond the ...
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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.
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| Title | Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, to which is Added, the Force of Religion |
| Authors | John Milton, Edward Young |
| Publisher | Phillips & Sampson, 1848 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 6 Nov 2007 |
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