Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve BooksJ.M. Dent, 1903 - 372 sider |
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Side 7
... eternal being To undergo eternal punishment ? ' Whereto with speedy words the Arch - Fiend replied : - 160 170 Fallen Cherub , to be weak is miserable , Doing or suffering : but of this be sure- To do aught good never will be our task ...
... eternal being To undergo eternal punishment ? ' Whereto with speedy words the Arch - Fiend replied : - 160 170 Fallen Cherub , to be weak is miserable , Doing or suffering : but of this be sure- To do aught good never will be our task ...
Side 12
... Eternal Spirits ! Or have ye chosen this place After the toil of battle to repose 320 Your wearied virtue , for the ease you find To slumber here , as in the vales of Heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To adore the ...
... Eternal Spirits ! Or have ye chosen this place After the toil of battle to repose 320 Your wearied virtue , for the ease you find To slumber here , as in the vales of Heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To adore the ...
Side 21
... eternal splendours flung 610 For his revolt - yet faithful how they stood , Their glory withered ; as , when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines , With singed top their stately growth , though bare , Stands on ...
... eternal splendours flung 610 For his revolt - yet faithful how they stood , Their glory withered ; as , when heaven's fire Hath scathed the forest oaks or mountain pines , With singed top their stately growth , though bare , Stands on ...
Side 30
... Eternal to be deemed Equal in strength , and rather than be less Cared not to be at all ; with that care lost Went all his fear of God , or Hell , or worse , He recked not , and these words thereafter " : - spake : - My sentence is for ...
... Eternal to be deemed Equal in strength , and rather than be less Cared not to be at all ; with that care lost Went all his fear of God , or Hell , or worse , He recked not , and these words thereafter " : - spake : - My sentence is for ...
Side 31
... eternal being ! Or , if our substance be indeed divine , And cannot cease to be , we are at worst On this side nothing ; and by proof we feel Our power sufficient to disturb his Heaven , And with perpetual inroads to alarm , Though ...
... eternal being ! Or , if our substance be indeed divine , And cannot cease to be , we are at worst On this side nothing ; and by proof we feel Our power sufficient to disturb his Heaven , And with perpetual inroads to alarm , Though ...
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Abdiel Adam æther Almighty Angels arms Asmodeus aught beast Beelzebub behold Belial bliss bright celestial Chaos Cherub Cherubim cloud creatures dark death deep deity delight divine dread dwell Earth Egypt eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fear fell fierce fiery fire flaming flowers fruit glory gods grace Greek mythology hand happy hath heard heart Heaven Heavenly Hell highth hill honour hope host infernal JOHN MILTON King less lest light live lost Mammon mankind Messiah Moloch Mozambic night Nisroch o'er Ophion Oreb pain Paradise PARADISE LOST peace praise rage reign round sapience Satan Satan return seat seemed Seraph Serpent sight soon sovran spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree Uriel wandering whence wind wings World Zeus
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Side 2 - Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventrous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme. And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and
Side 326 - lost Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon ; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way. THE END OF
Side 68 - Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed ; For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him. His fair large front and eye sublime declared Absolute rule ; and hyacinthine locks Round from his parted forelock manly hung Clustering, but
Side 24 - In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless—like that pygmean race 780 Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest-side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the Moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the Earth
Side 2 - pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support ; That, to the highth of this great argument, I may assert Eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men. Say first—for Heaven hides nothing from
Side 66 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade Imbrowned the noontide bowers. Thus was A happy
Side 45 - Their own revolt, not I. If I foreknew, Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less proved certain .unforeknown. So without least impulse or shadow of fate, 120 Or aught by me immutably foreseen, They trespass, authors to themselves in all, Both what they judge and what they choose ; for
Side 45 - So much the rather thou, Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her Irradiate ; there plant eyes ; all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight. powers
Side 167 - Again God said, " Let there be firmament Amid the waters, and let it divide The waters from the waters ! " And God made The firmament, expanse of liquid, pure, Transparent, elemental air diffused In circuit to the uttermost convex
Side 129 - maintained 30 Against revolted multitudes the cause Of truth, in word mightier than they in arms, And for the testimony of truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse to bear Than violence ; for this was all thy care— To stand approved in sight of God, though worlds Judged thee perverse. The easier conquest now