Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve BooksHayes & Zell, 1854 - 312 pages |
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... happy state , Favor'd of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? The infernal Serpent ; he it was , whose ...
... happy state , Favor'd of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? The infernal Serpent ; he it was , whose ...
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... Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid silence , thus began . If thou be he ; but O , how fallen ! how changed 85 From him , who , in the happy realms 1 * BOOK I. ] PARADISE LOST . Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. ...
... Satan , with bold words Breaking the horrid silence , thus began . If thou be he ; but O , how fallen ! how changed 85 From him , who , in the happy realms 1 * BOOK I. ] PARADISE LOST . Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms. ...
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... happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness , didst outshine Myriads though bright ! If he whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels , equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise , Join'd with me once , now ...
... happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness , didst outshine Myriads though bright ! If he whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels , equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise , Join'd with me once , now ...
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... happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our Conqueror ( whom I now Of force believe Almighty , since no less Than such could have o'erpower'd such force as ours ) Have left us this our spirit and strength entire ...
... happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our Conqueror ( whom I now Of force believe Almighty , since no less Than such could have o'erpower'd such force as ours ) Have left us this our spirit and strength entire ...
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... happy fields , 255 Where joy forever dwells ! Hail horrors ! hail , 250 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 ...
... happy fields , 255 Where joy forever dwells ! Hail horrors ! hail , 250 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 ...
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Adam Almighty Angels answer'd appear'd Archangel arm'd arms aught beast Beelzebub behold bless'd bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherub Cherubim Cleombrotus cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deep delight didst divine dreadful dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith Father fear Fiend fierce fire fix'd flaming flowers fruit gates glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell hill Ithuriel King lest light live mankind Messiah mind mix'd nigh night o'er ordain'd pain PARADISE LOST pass'd peace praise reign replied return'd round sapience Satan scaped seat seem'd Seraph Serpent shade shalt sight soon spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree turn'd Uriel vex'd voice whence wings wonder Zephon
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Page 58 - 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 97 - When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 81 - 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 98 - Shine not in vain ; nor think, though men were none, That heaven would want spectators, God want praise. Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold Both day and night...
Page 20 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, 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 58 - 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 44 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 35 - A pillar of state ; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone Majestic, though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night, Or summer's noontide air...
Page 25 - In spring-time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters ; they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their straw-built citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate, and confer Their state affairs...
Page 17 - 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.