Selections from Paradise lost: with notes, by R. DemausOliver & Boyd, 1857 - 180 pages |
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... means of evil ; Which oft - times may succeed , so as perhaps Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb 160 165 His inmost counsels from their destin'd aim . But see ! the angry Victor hath recall'd His ministers of vengeance and ...
... means of evil ; Which oft - times may succeed , so as perhaps Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb 160 165 His inmost counsels from their destin'd aim . But see ! the angry Victor hath recall'd His ministers of vengeance and ...
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... mean to tread with ease : Meanwhile , as nature wills , night bids us rest . " 66 635 To whom thus Eve , with perfect beauty adorn'd : My author and disposer , what thou bidd'st Unargu'd I obey : so God ordains ; 640 645 God is thy law ...
... mean to tread with ease : Meanwhile , as nature wills , night bids us rest . " 66 635 To whom thus Eve , with perfect beauty adorn'd : My author and disposer , what thou bidd'st Unargu'd I obey : so God ordains ; 640 645 God is thy law ...
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... mean ? language of man pronounc'd By tongue of brute , and human sense express'd ? The first , at least , of these I thought denied To beasts , whom God , on their creation - day , Created mute to all articulate sound : 555 The latter I ...
... mean ? language of man pronounc'd By tongue of brute , and human sense express'd ? The first , at least , of these I thought denied To beasts , whom God , on their creation - day , Created mute to all articulate sound : 555 The latter I ...
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... Mean I to try , what rash untried I sought , The pain of absence from thy sight . But strange Hath been the cause , and wonderful to hear : This tree is not , as we are told , a tree Of danger , tasted , nor to evil unknown Op'ning the ...
... Mean I to try , what rash untried I sought , The pain of absence from thy sight . But strange Hath been the cause , and wonderful to hear : This tree is not , as we are told , a tree Of danger , tasted , nor to evil unknown Op'ning the ...
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... means the celebration in poetry of subjects of a far more elevated character than those which had been sung by the poets , who pretended to derive their inspiration from the muses who frequented the Aonian mount . 16 . --- -rhyme stands ...
... means the celebration in poetry of subjects of a far more elevated character than those which had been sung by the poets , who pretended to derive their inspiration from the muses who frequented the Aonian mount . 16 . --- -rhyme stands ...
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according Adam and Eve Adam's allusion Almighty Ammonite ancient Argob beasts Beelzebub behold Belial bliss BOOK brute burning lake call'd called chaos cherubim classical sense darkness death deep delight divine dread earth Egypt envy eternal ev'ning Eve's evil fair fall fear fire fix'd flow'rs fruit garden Genesis glory God's goddess gods gold Greek guile happy hast hath heav'n hell hence hill Imaüs imitation Jupiter king knowledge labour lest Libya light lost Mammon means Milton mind Moloch moon morning Mozambic night note on line o'er Ormus Osiris pain Paradise Paradise Lost pass'd passage perhaps Phlegra poem poet pow'r praise rais'd reason rebel angels refers river roses round Satan says Scripture seat seem'd Serapis serpent shade song spake spirits stars stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence things thou thought throne tree turn'd vex'd voice wand'ring wind word worse worship
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Page 6 - Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support...
Page 64 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 25 - 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...
Page 10 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift 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...
Page 52 - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Page 14 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 83 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 8 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 57 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, 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 mild...
Page 31 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success...