Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts. Night Thoughts on Life, Death and Immortality, to which is Added, the Force of Religion |
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Page 82
... burnish'd with golden rind , Hung amiable , Hesperian fables true , 250 If true ,
here only , and of delicious taste : Betwixt them lawns , or level downs , and flocks
Grazing the tender herb , were interposed , Or palmy hillock ; or the flowery lap ...
... burnish'd with golden rind , Hung amiable , Hesperian fables true , 250 If true ,
here only , and of delicious taste : Betwixt them lawns , or level downs , and flocks
Grazing the tender herb , were interposed , Or palmy hillock ; or the flowery lap ...
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Young Bacchus , from his stepdame Rhea's eye ; Nor where Abassin kings their
issue guard , 280 Mount Amara , though this wy some supposed True Paradise
under the Ethiop line By Nilus ' head , enclosed with shining rock , A whole day's
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Young Bacchus , from his stepdame Rhea's eye ; Nor where Abassin kings their
issue guard , 280 Mount Amara , though this wy some supposed True Paradise
under the Ethiop line By Nilus ' head , enclosed with shining rock , A whole day's
...
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... beyond the grave There should it fail us , it must fail us there If being fails )
more mournful riddles rise , 140 And virtue vies with hope in mystery . Why virtue
? where its praise its being , fled Virtue 13 true self - interest pursued ; What true
134 ...
... beyond the grave There should it fail us , it must fail us there If being fails )
more mournful riddles rise , 140 And virtue vies with hope in mystery . Why virtue
? where its praise its being , fled Virtue 13 true self - interest pursued ; What true
134 ...
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780 Believe me , sense , here , acts a double part , And the true critic is a
Christian too . But these , thou think'st , are gloomy paths to joy . True joy in
sunshine ne'er was found at first . They first themselves offend who greatly please
, 785 And ...
780 Believe me , sense , here , acts a double part , And the true critic is a
Christian too . But these , thou think'st , are gloomy paths to joy . True joy in
sunshine ne'er was found at first . They first themselves offend who greatly please
, 785 And ...
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False Pleasure from abroad her joys imports ; 925 Rich from within , and self -
sustain'd , the true . The true is fix'd and solid as a rock ; Slippery the false , and
tossing , as the wave . This a wild wanderer on earth , like Cain : That like the
fabled ...
False Pleasure from abroad her joys imports ; 925 Rich from within , and self -
sustain'd , the true . The true is fix'd and solid as a rock ; Slippery the false , and
tossing , as the wave . This a wild wanderer on earth , like Cain : That like the
fabled ...
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Adam Angels arms bliss bound bring callid cause cloud created dark death deep delight divine dread dust dwell earth eternal evil fair faith fall fate Father fear field fire flame fruit give glory Gods hand happy hast hath head heart Heaven Hell hope hour human immortal kind King leave less light live look Lorenzo lost man's mankind mind mortal Nature Nature's never night o'er once pain Paradise peace perhaps pleasure praise proud Reason rest rise round Satan scene seen sense shade side sight skies smile song soon soul Spirits stand stars stood strange sweet taste thee thine things thou thought throne till tree true truth turn virtue wide wing wisdom wise wish 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.
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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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