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As when a flock Of ravenous fowl , though many a league remote , Against the
day of battel , to a field , 275 Where armies lie incamp'd , come flying , lur'd With
scent of living carcasles , design'd For death the following day , in bloody fight :
So ...
As when a flock Of ravenous fowl , though many a league remote , Against the
day of battel , to a field , 275 Where armies lie incamp'd , come flying , lur'd With
scent of living carcasles , design'd For death the following day , in bloody fight :
So ...
Side 23
... Heav'n - fall'n , in station stood or just array , 555 Sublime with expectation ,
when to see In triumph issuing forth their glorious chief : They faw , but other fight
instead ! a crowd Of ugly serpents : horror on them fell , And horrid sympathy : for
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... Heav'n - fall'n , in station stood or just array , 555 Sublime with expectation ,
when to see In triumph issuing forth their glorious chief : They faw , but other fight
instead ! a crowd Of ugly serpents : horror on them fell , And horrid sympathy : for
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Side 24
... in heaps , and up the trees Climbing , sat thicker than the snaky locks That
curld Megaera ; greedily they pluck'd 560 The fruitage fair to fight , like that which
grew 1 Near that bituminous lake where ' Sodom flam'd ; This 24 PARADISE Lost
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... in heaps , and up the trees Climbing , sat thicker than the snaky locks That
curld Megaera ; greedily they pluck'd 560 The fruitage fair to fight , like that which
grew 1 Near that bituminous lake where ' Sodom flam'd ; This 24 PARADISE Lost
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Side 30
... Equal in days and nights , except to those 630 Beyond the Polar circles : to
them day Had unbenighted shone , while the low Sun To recompense his
distance , in their fight Had rounded still th ' horizon , and not known Or east or
weft ; which ...
... Equal in days and nights , except to those 630 Beyond the Polar circles : to
them day Had unbenighted shone , while the low Sun To recompense his
distance , in their fight Had rounded still th ' horizon , and not known Or east or
weft ; which ...
Side 36
How can they then acquitted stand In fight of God ? Him after all disputes Forc'd I
absolve : all my evasions vain And reasonings though thro ' mazes , lead me still
850 But to my own conviction : first and last On me , me only , as the source and ...
How can they then acquitted stand In fight of God ? Him after all disputes Forc'd I
absolve : all my evasions vain And reasonings though thro ' mazes , lead me still
850 But to my own conviction : first and last On me , me only , as the source and ...
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LibraryThing Review
Brugeranmeldelse - VivalaErin - LibraryThingThe shortest answer is: John Milton was a poetic genius. PL is so beautiful, you can't help but feel for Adam and Eve. Even Satan is a great character - he so wants to be an epic hero. This poem is a masterpiece, and he wrote it completely blind. Beautiful, absolutely amazing. Læs hele anmeldelsen
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Brugeranmeldelse - StefanY - LibraryThingHistorical significance and beautifully descriptive prose aside, I couldn't get into this book at all. Maybe it's too much familiarity with the plot or the inevitability of the impending doom of the ... Læs hele anmeldelsen
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