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... shalt thou , by descending to assume Man's nature , lessen or degrade thine own . Because thou hast , though thron'd in highest bliss Equal to God , and equally enjoying God - like fruition , quitted all , to save A world from utter ...
... shalt thou , by descending to assume Man's nature , lessen or degrade thine own . Because thou hast , though thron'd in highest bliss Equal to God , and equally enjoying God - like fruition , quitted all , to save A world from utter ...
Page 67
... shalt thou sit incarnate , here shalt reign Both God and Man , Son both of God and Man , Anointed universal King ; all power I give thee ; reign for ever , and assume Thy merits ; under thee , as head supreme , Thrones , Princedoms ...
... shalt thou sit incarnate , here shalt reign Both God and Man , Son both of God and Man , Anointed universal King ; all power I give thee ; reign for ever , and assume Thy merits ; under thee , as head supreme , Thrones , Princedoms ...
Page 75
... shalt look down and smile , While by thee rais'd , I ruin all my foes , Death last , and with his carcass glut the grave : Then with the multitude of my redeem'd , Shall enter Heaven , long absent , and return , Father , to see thy face ...
... shalt look down and smile , While by thee rais'd , I ruin all my foes , Death last , and with his carcass glut the grave : Then with the multitude of my redeem'd , Shall enter Heaven , long absent , and return , Father , to see thy face ...
Page 76
... shalt thou , by descending to assume Man's nature , lessen or degrade thine own . Because thou hast , though thron'd in highest bliss Equal to God , and equally enjoying God - like fruition , quitted all , to save A world from utter ...
... shalt thou , by descending to assume Man's nature , lessen or degrade thine own . Because thou hast , though thron'd in highest bliss Equal to God , and equally enjoying God - like fruition , quitted all , to save A world from utter ...
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... shalt thou sit incarnate , here shalt reign Both God and Man , Son both of God and Man , Anointed universal King ; all power I give thee ; reign for ever , and assume Thy merits ; under thee , as head supreme , Thrones , Princedoms ...
... shalt thou sit incarnate , here shalt reign Both God and Man , Son both of God and Man , Anointed universal King ; all power I give thee ; reign for ever , and assume Thy merits ; under thee , as head supreme , Thrones , Princedoms ...
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Abdiel Adam Adam and Eve Almighty Angel appear'd Arch-Angel arm'd arms ashes spring aught beast behold bliss bower burning lake call'd celestial Cherubim cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deeds deep delight didst divine dread dwell Earth eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fierce fire flaming flowers form'd fruit glory gods grace hand happy hast hate hath havock Heaven and Earth heavenly Hell highth hill join'd judg'd King lapsed powers lest light live lost mankind Messiah mortal night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace pleas'd quire racking torture rais'd reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd Seraph serpent shalt sight soon sovran spake Spirits stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thought throne thyself tree turn'd vex'd voice whence wings wonder
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Page 15 - Less than archangel ruined, 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 66 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good : by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Page 4 - 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 49 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 12 - 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.
Page 23 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success,* When he who most excels in fact of arms, In what he counsels and in what excels Mistrustful, grounds his courage on despair And utter dissolution, as the scope Of all his aim, after some dire revenge.
Page 5 - 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, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven. What matter where, if I be still the same And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater...
Page 5 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be ; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater?. Here at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.