Oeuvres de Delille, Volume 5Furne, 1832 |
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... more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God : I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or ...
... more , and Siloa's brook that flow'd Fast by the oracle of God : I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the ' Aonian mount , while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or ...
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... gulf , Confounded , though immortal : but his doom Reserv'd him to more wrath ; for now the thought , Both of lost happiness and lasting pain , Mais d'abord apprends - moi , puisque ton œil embrasse 36 PARADISE LOST , B. I..
... gulf , Confounded , though immortal : but his doom Reserv'd him to more wrath ; for now the thought , Both of lost happiness and lasting pain , Mais d'abord apprends - moi , puisque ton œil embrasse 36 PARADISE LOST , B. I..
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... more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war , irreconcileable to our grand foe , Who now triumphs , and , in the ' excess of joy Sole reigning , holds the tyranny of Heaven . » So spake the apostate Angel , though ...
... more successful hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war , irreconcileable to our grand foe , Who now triumphs , and , in the ' excess of joy Sole reigning , holds the tyranny of Heaven . » So spake the apostate Angel , though ...
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... more With rallied arms to try what may be yet Regain'd in Heaven , or what more lost in Hell ? » So Satan spake , and him Beëlzebub Thus answer'd : « Leader of those armies bright , Which but the ' Omnipotent none could have foil'd ...
... more With rallied arms to try what may be yet Regain'd in Heaven , or what more lost in Hell ? » So Satan spake , and him Beëlzebub Thus answer'd : « Leader of those armies bright , Which but the ' Omnipotent none could have foil'd ...
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... Et dans la même nuit , nuit à jamais horrible ! Des mères d'un seul coup frappa les fruits naissans , Et le prêtre , et le temple , et ses dieux mugissans . Belial came last , than whom a Spirit more lewd PARADIS PERDU , LIV . I. 69.
... Et dans la même nuit , nuit à jamais horrible ! Des mères d'un seul coup frappa les fruits naissans , Et le prêtre , et le temple , et ses dieux mugissans . Belial came last , than whom a Spirit more lewd PARADIS PERDU , LIV . I. 69.
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Adam Almighty angels anges another world arm'd arms battle behold bring call'd céleste Chaos ciel cieux cœur created dark darkness death deep Dieu divine doom doux earth Éden enfers envy equal eternal éternelle evil extol Father fear feux find fire first forth found front fruits gloire glory godlike gold good grace great guerriers hand happy hast hath head heaven heavenly Hell high hill his enemy his punishment Homère hope infernal King know l'Énéide l'enfer l'Éternel less light lost love mankind maux Milton Moloch night nuit o'er offspring once Paradise pass'd poème power powers praise rage reign right round Satan scorn seat seem'd seest shade shape shone side sight soon spake spirits stand stood sweet their thence things thou though thoughts Thrice throne thyself trône turn'd Uriel voûte whence wide winds wings work world worse yeux
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Page 290 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons and their change, all please alike : Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glist'ring with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 334 - 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. Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels : for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night Circle his throne rejoicing ; ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 180 - Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 244 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Page 182 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 34 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse...
Page 50 - In billows, leave in the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights, if it were land that ever burn'd With solid, as the lake with liquid fire...
Page 48 - 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 54 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 164 - And time, and place, are lost ; where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of nature, hold Eternal anarchy, amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand. For Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mastery, and to battle bring Their embryon atoms...