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" O Progeny of Heaven, Empyreal Thrones, With reason hath deep silence and demur Seized us, though undismayed : long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to Light... "
Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books - Page 46
by John Milton - 1711 - 376 pages
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Redcar Lee

Mary Louisa Searle - 1881 - 406 pages
...golden grain ; But who shall teach us when to look for thee ?" CHAPTER XXVII. NIEL AT DAUNTON CASTLE. " Long is the way, And hard, that out of hell leads up to light." Milton. j|HE afternoon that they carried Horace Carter to his last resting-place, Mr. Daunton sat alone...
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Beyond Cheering and Bashing: New Perspectives on the Closing of the American ...

William K. Buckley, James Seaton - Education - 1992 - 180 pages
...Methodology..." 168) without losing the distinctive quality of either voice. * Notes 1See Paradise Lost ("Long is the way/ And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light" [2.432-33]]), itself echoing Virgil's Aeneid ("Facilis discensus averno/ Sed revocare/ Hoc opus hic...
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The Cambridge Companion to Dante

Rachel Jacoff - Literary Criticism - 1993 - 296 pages
...ends with the exile of humanity from Eden. In Milton, stirring talk of a journey upward from Hell — "long is the way / And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light" - comes only from Satan (2, 432-33; compare Inferno 34, 95-96). The terrain that Milton returns us...
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Divided Empire: Milton's Political Imagery

Robert Thomas Fallon - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 216 pages
...for the mission, may sound grandiose and self-serving; but it does not exaggerate the difficulties. "Long is the way / And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light," he begins, and then details the obstacles. He will first have to break through the "gates of burning...
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Fellowship in Paradise Lost: Vergil, Milton, Wordsworth, Volume 97

André Verbart - Aeneas (Legendary character) in literature - 1995 - 322 pages
...voragine ripas adnuit, et totum nutu tremefecit Olympum. 25. PLIIA32-33 Seis'd us, though undismaid: long is the way And hard, that out of Hell leads up to light; Aen.6 l26-29 [the Sibyl speaks to Aeneas about emering the Underworld] Tros Anchisiade. facilis descensus...
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Altered Fates: Gene Therapy and the Retooling of Human Life

Jeff Lyon - Gene therapy - 1996 - 646 pages
...find any gene, now," sums up Hart. "I predict we'll have the aging gene in our hands very soon." u Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. . . . — John Milton, Paradise Lost I*ut where in the vast Sahara of the human genome would a small...
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The Wordsworth Dictionary of Quotations

Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...unbottomed infinite abyss And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way. 7573 Paradise Lost eems deceit. 2719 There's a kind of release And a kind of tor 7574 Paradise Lost 0 shame to men! Devil with devil damned Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of...
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Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media

Christopher Sharrett - Violence in motion pictures - 1999 - 460 pages
...on Christianity's seven deadly sins. At another crime scene, Somerset finds a quote from Milton — "Long is the way, and hard, that out of hell leads up to light" — and perceives that the killer is referring to his own purgatorial journey. Mills, whose classical...
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The Westminster Collection of Christian Quotations

Martin H. Manser - Religion - 2001 - 524 pages
...with some pleasant inns but will not encourage us to mistake them for home. Clive Staples (CS) Lewis Long is the way / And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. John Milton Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah, / Pilgrim through this barren land; / 1 am weak, but Thou...
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Rebellious Hearts: British Women Writers and the French Revolution

Adriana Craciun, Kari Lokke, Kari E. Lokke - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 414 pages
...of heav'n, empyreal Thrones! With reason hath deep silence and demur Seized us, though undismayed: long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light.18 In Sonnet 59, Smith seems to have found her way to this realm of light and transcendence through...
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