Œuvres complètes de Chateaubriand, Issue 5558, Volume 11Garnier, 1861 |
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... their miserable fall . Satan awakens all his legions , who lay till then in the same manner con- founded they rise ; their numbers , array of battle : their chief leaders named , according to the idols known afterwards in Canaan and the ...
... their miserable fall . Satan awakens all his legions , who lay till then in the same manner con- founded they rise ; their numbers , array of battle : their chief leaders named , according to the idols known afterwards in Canaan and the ...
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... their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers , heard so oft In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge Of battle when it raged , in all assaults Their surest signal , they will soon resume New courage , and revive , though now ...
... their liveliest pledge Of hope in fears and dangers , heard so oft In worst extremes , and on the perilous edge Of battle when it raged , in all assaults Their surest signal , they will soon resume New courage , and revive , though now ...
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... their floating carcases And broken chariot - wheels : so thick bestrown , Abject and lost , lay these , covering the flood , Under amazement of their hideous change . He call'd so loud , that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded ...
... their floating carcases And broken chariot - wheels : so thick bestrown , Abject and lost , lay these , covering the flood , Under amazement of their hideous change . He call'd so loud , that all the hollow deep Of hell resounded ...
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... Their great commander ; godlike shapes and forms Excelling human , princely dignities , And powers , that erst in heaven sat on thrones ; Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial , blotted out and rased By their ...
... Their great commander ; godlike shapes and forms Excelling human , princely dignities , And powers , that erst in heaven sat on thrones ; Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial , blotted out and rased By their ...
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... their essence pure ; Not tied or manacled with joint or limb , Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones , Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose , Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure , Can execute their airy ...
... their essence pure ; Not tied or manacled with joint or limb , Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones , Like cumbrous flesh ; but in what shape they choose , Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure , Can execute their airy ...
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Page 152 - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes : but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces ; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be call'd Mother of human race.
Page 60 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 82 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 134 - Ah, wherefore ? he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none ; nor was his service hard. What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks, How due...
Page 352 - Matter of scorn, not to be given the Foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom : If death Consort with thee, death is to me as life ; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of Nature draw me to my own ; My own in thee, for what thou art is mine ; Our state cannot be sever'd ; we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
Page 354 - With liberal hand: he scrupled not to eat, Against his better knowledge : not deceived, But fondly overcome with female charm. Earth trembled from her entrails, as again In pangs ; and Nature gave a second groan ; Sky lour'd, and, muttering thunder, some sad drops Wept at completing of the mortal sin Original...
Page 198 - Myself and all the angelic host, that stand In sight of God, enthroned, our happy state Hold, as you yours, while our obedience holds; On other surety none; freely we serve, Because we freely love, as in our will To love or not; in this we stand or fall: And some are fallen, to disobedience fallen, And so from Heaven to deepest Hell; O fall, From what high state of bliss, into what woe...
Page 156 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale, She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 286 - Before the angel, and of him to ask Chose rather ; he, she knew, would intermix Grateful digressions, and solve high dispute With conjugal caresses : from his lip Not words alone pleased her.
Page 158 - Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the regard of Heaven on all his ways; While other animals unactive range, And of their doings God takes no account. To-morrow, ere fresh morning streak the east With first approach of light, we must be risen, And at our pleasant labour to reform Yon...