Paradise Lost, Bøger 1–2Leach, Shewell, and Sanborn, 1896 - 210 sider |
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Side 12
... once named abroad , though perhaps I could attain to that , but content with these British islands as my world ; whose fortune hath hitherto been , that if the Athenians , as some say , made their small deeds great and renowned by their ...
... once named abroad , though perhaps I could attain to that , but content with these British islands as my world ; whose fortune hath hitherto been , that if the Athenians , as some say , made their small deeds great and renowned by their ...
Side 15
... once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty , under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish . Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some ...
... once enfranchised herself from this impertinent yoke of prelaty , under whose inquisitorious and tyrannical duncery no free and splendid wit can flourish . Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some ...
Side 22
... diminished heads- to thee I call , But with no friendly voice , and add thy name , O Sun , to tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere , 22 INTRODUCTION .
... diminished heads- to thee I call , But with no friendly voice , and add thy name , O Sun , to tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere , 22 INTRODUCTION .
Side 23
John Milton. I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere , Till pride and worse ambition threw me down ... once entertained had faded more or less into the back- ground of memory , and PARADISE LOST stood out , bold , clear ...
John Milton. I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere , Till pride and worse ambition threw me down ... once entertained had faded more or less into the back- ground of memory , and PARADISE LOST stood out , bold , clear ...
Side 36
... once , before the Paradise Lost . Averse as I am to every thing relating to theology , and especially to the view of it thrown open by this poem , I recur to it incessantly as the noblest specimen in the world of eloquence , harmony ...
... once , before the Paradise Lost . Averse as I am to every thing relating to theology , and especially to the view of it thrown open by this poem , I recur to it incessantly as the noblest specimen in the world of eloquence , harmony ...
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Abyss Adam Almighty ancient Angels arms battle Beelzebub Belial Ben Jonson Bible bright called Chaos Chimæra Chorus Cicero Comus Dante darkness Death deep Define Demogorgon divine dread earth Edited English epic Eternal evil Exod fate fear fierce fiery fire flames force glory gods gold Greek hath Heaven heavenly Hell Hesiod highth Homer host Iliad infernal King Landor Latin light literature Lord Lowell Mammon meaning mighty Milton mind Moloch Night o'er once Ormus Ovid pain Paradise Lost passage perhaps poem poet poetic poetry Prometheus Bound prose reign revenge rock round Satan says sense Seraphim Shak Shakespeare sound spear speech Spenser Spirits stood style sublime Tartarus Tasso Thammuz thee thence Theog things thou thought throne thunder tion Transferred epithet translation verb verse Virgil winds wings word Zeus
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Side 38 - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom He pleases.
Side 62 - 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.
Side 53 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Side 101 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Side 181 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Side 105 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Side 102 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...
Side 70 - 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.
Side 57 - 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? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
Side 21 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...