Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve BooksL. Coffin, 1831 - 294 pages |
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... sweet , Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want 715 Cornice or frieze , with bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold . Not Babylon , Nor ...
... sweet , Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want 715 Cornice or frieze , with bossy sculptures graven : The roof was fretted gold . Not Babylon , Nor ...
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... sweet Extend his evening beam , the fields revive , The birds their notes renew , and bleating herds Attest their joy , that hill and valley ring . O shame to men ! Devil with Devil damn'd 490 495 Firm concord holds ; men only disagree ...
... sweet Extend his evening beam , the fields revive , The birds their notes renew , and bleating herds Attest their joy , that hill and valley ring . O shame to men ! Devil with Devil damn'd 490 495 Firm concord holds ; men only disagree ...
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... sweet ( For eloquence the soul , song charms the sense , ) 556 Others apart sat on a hill retired , In thoughts more elevate , and reason'd high Of providence , foreknowledge , will , and fate ; Fix'd fate , free will , foreknowledge ...
... sweet ( For eloquence the soul , song charms the sense , ) 556 Others apart sat on a hill retired , In thoughts more elevate , and reason'd high Of providence , foreknowledge , will , and fate ; Fix'd fate , free will , foreknowledge ...
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... sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe , All in one moment , and so near the brink ; But fate withstands , and to oppose the attempt Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards The ford , and of itself the water flies All taste of living wight ...
... sweet forgetfulness all pain and woe , All in one moment , and so near the brink ; But fate withstands , and to oppose the attempt Medusa with Gorgonian terror guards The ford , and of itself the water flies All taste of living wight ...
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... d smooth Dear Daughter ! since thou claim'st me for thy sire And my fair son here show'st me , ( the dear pledge Of dalliance had with thee in Heaven , and joys Then sweet , now sad to mention , through dire 46 B. II . PARADISE LOST .
... d smooth Dear Daughter ! since thou claim'st me for thy sire And my fair son here show'st me , ( the dear pledge Of dalliance had with thee in Heaven , and joys Then sweet , now sad to mention , through dire 46 B. II . PARADISE LOST .
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Adam Almighty Angels answer'd appear'd Archangel arm'd arms aught beast Beelzebub behold bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deep delight didst divine dreadful dwell Earth eternal evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith Father fear fierce fire fix'd flaming flowers fruit gates glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell hill Ithuriel JOHN MILTON join'd King lest light live lost mankind Messiah Michaël mix'd night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace reign replied return'd round sapience Satan scape seat seem'd Seraph Serpent shalt sight soon sov'reign spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree turn'd Uriel vex'd voice whence wings wonder Zephon
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Page 107 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 23 - From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 4 - And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men.
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 107 - 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 213 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 76 - Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him hell He brings, and round about him, nor from hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place...
Page 154 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Page 22 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Page 76 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...