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... voice , their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers , heard so oft In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge Of battle when it rag'd , in all assaults Their surest signal , they will soon resume New courage and revive ...
... voice , their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers , heard so oft In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge Of battle when it rag'd , in all assaults Their surest signal , they will soon resume New courage and revive ...
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... the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their General's voice they soon obey'd , Innumerable . As when the potent rod Of Amram's Son , in Egypt's evil day , Wav'd round the coast , up call'd a pitchy cloud 12 [ v . 311 . PARADISE LOST .
... the fierce pains not feel ; Yet to their General's voice they soon obey'd , Innumerable . As when the potent rod Of Amram's Son , in Egypt's evil day , Wav'd round the coast , up call'd a pitchy cloud 12 [ v . 311 . PARADISE LOST .
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... voices sweet , Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Dorick pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or freeze , with bossv sculptures graven ; E For treasures , better hid . Soon had his ...
... voices sweet , Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Dorick pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or freeze , with bossv sculptures graven ; E For treasures , better hid . Soon had his ...
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... voices sweet , Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Dorick pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or freeze , with bossv sculptures graven ; E The roof was fretted gold . Not Babylon ...
... voices sweet , Built like a temple , where pilasters round Were set , and Dorick pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or freeze , with bossv sculptures graven ; E The roof was fretted gold . Not Babylon ...
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... voice dissuades ; for what can force or guile With Him , or who deceive his mind , whose eye Views all things at one view ? He from Heaven's highth All these our motions vain sees , and derides ; Not more almighty to resist our might ...
... voice dissuades ; for what can force or guile With Him , or who deceive his mind , whose eye Views all things at one view ? He from Heaven's highth All these our motions vain sees , and derides ; Not more almighty to resist our might ...
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Abdiel Adam Adam and Eve Almighty Angel appear'd Arch-Angel arm'd arms ashes spring aught beast behold bliss bower burning lake call'd celestial Cherubim cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deeds deep delight didst divine dread dwell Earth eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fierce fire flaming flowers form'd fruit glory gods grace hand happy hast hate hath havock Heaven and Earth heavenly Hell highth hill join'd judg'd King lapsed powers lest light live lost mankind Messiah mortal night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace pleas'd quire racking torture rais'd reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd Seraph serpent shalt sight soon sovran spake Spirits stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thought throne thyself tree turn'd vex'd voice whence wings wonder
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Page 15 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 66 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good : by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Page 4 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest Mate With Head up-lift above the wave, and Eyes That sparkling blaz'd, his other Parts besides Prone on the Flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood, in bulk as huge As whom the Fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warr'd on Jove, Briareos or Typhon, whom the Den By ancient Tarsus held, or that Sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim th...
Page 49 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 12 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 23 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success,* When he who most excels in fact of arms, In what he counsels and in what excels Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair And utter dissolution, as the scope Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.
Page 5 - Infernal World ! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater...
Page 5 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be ; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?. Here at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.