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... the deep tract of hell : say first what cause Mor'd our grand parents , in that happy state , Favour'd of heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world beside ?
... the deep tract of hell : say first what cause Mor'd our grand parents , in that happy state , Favour'd of heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world beside ?
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To whom the Arch Enemy , And thence in heaven call'd Satan , with bold worde Breaking the horrid silence , thus began : If thou beest he ; But 0 , how fallen ! how chang'd From him , who in the happy realms of light , Cloth'd with ...
To whom the Arch Enemy , And thence in heaven call'd Satan , with bold worde Breaking the horrid silence , thus began : If thou beest he ; But 0 , how fallen ! how chang'd From him , who in the happy realms of light , Cloth'd with ...
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... destruction laid thus low , As far as Gods and heavenly essences Can perish : for the mind and spirit remain Invincible , and vigour soon returns , Though all our glory extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery .
... destruction laid thus low , As far as Gods and heavenly essences Can perish : for the mind and spirit remain Invincible , and vigour soon returns , Though all our glory extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery .
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Farewell , happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells ! hail horrours ! hail , Infernal world ! and thou , profoundest hell , Receive thy new possessour ! one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time .
Farewell , happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells ! hail horrours ! hail , Infernal world ! and thou , profoundest hell , Receive thy new possessour ! one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time .
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The happier state In Heaven , which follows dignity , might draw Envy from each inferiour ; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Foremost to stand against the Thunderer's aim , Your bulwark and condemns to greatest ...
The happier state In Heaven , which follows dignity , might draw Envy from each inferiour ; but who here Will envy whom the highest place exposes Foremost to stand against the Thunderer's aim , Your bulwark and condemns to greatest ...
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Page 30 - 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, On Lemnos the /Egean isle : thus they relate, Erring...
Page 77 - 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 4 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 13 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 129 - 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; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 108 - O thou that with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down 40 Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king: Ah wherefore!
Page 79 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 420 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Page 5 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes, That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed...
Page 179 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
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| Title | Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper Volume 2 of Cowper's Milton, in Four Volumes, William Cowper |
| Author | William Hayley |
| Publisher | W. Mason, 1810 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 26 Aug 2006 |
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