Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve BooksL. Coffin, 1831 - 294 páginas |
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... creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in Heaven ; for , that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient Fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to ...
... creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in Heaven ; for , that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient Fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to ...
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... creature equal or not much inferior to themselves , about this time to be created : Their doubt , who shall be sent on this difficult search ; Satan their chief undertakes alone the voyage , is honoured and applaud- ed . The council ...
... creature equal or not much inferior to themselves , about this time to be created : Their doubt , who shall be sent on this difficult search ; Satan their chief undertakes alone the voyage , is honoured and applaud- ed . The council ...
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... creatures there inhabit , of what mould , Or substance , how endued , and what their power And where their weakness , how attempted best , By force or subtlety . Though Heaven be shut , And Heaven's high Arbitrator sit secure 355 In his ...
... creatures there inhabit , of what mould , Or substance , how endued , and what their power And where their weakness , how attempted best , By force or subtlety . Though Heaven be shut , And Heaven's high Arbitrator sit secure 355 In his ...
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... creatures rational , though under hope Of heavenly grace : and , God proclaiming peace , Yet live in hatred , enmity , and strife 500 Among themselves , and levy cruel wars , Wasting the earth , each other to destroy : As if ( which ...
... creatures rational , though under hope Of heavenly grace : and , God proclaiming peace , Yet live in hatred , enmity , and strife 500 Among themselves , and levy cruel wars , Wasting the earth , each other to destroy : As if ( which ...
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... creatures , to supply Perhaps our vacant room ; though more removed , 835 Lest Heaven , surcharged with potent multitude , Might hap to move new broils . Be this or aught Than this more secret now design'd , I haste To know ; and , this ...
... creatures , to supply Perhaps our vacant room ; though more removed , 835 Lest Heaven , surcharged with potent multitude , Might hap to move new broils . Be this or aught Than this more secret now design'd , I haste To know ; and , this ...
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Adam Almighty Angels answer'd appear'd Archangel arm'd arms aught beast Beelzebub behold bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deep delight didst divine dreadful dwell Earth eternal evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith Father fear fierce fire fix'd flaming flowers fruit gates glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell hill Ithuriel JOHN MILTON join'd King lest light live lost mankind Messiah Michaël mix'd night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd peace reign replied return'd round sapience Satan scape seat seem'd Seraph Serpent shalt sight soon sov'reign spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree turn'd Uriel vex'd voice whence wings wonder Zephon
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Página 107 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Página 23 - From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove 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...
Página 4 - And mad'st it pregnant: What in me is dark, Illumine; what is low, raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert Eternal Providence, 25 And justify the ways of God to men.
Página 290 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Página 107 - 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.
Página 213 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of Nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Página 76 - Upon himself; horror and doubt distract His troubled thoughts, and from the bottom stir The hell within him ; for within him hell He brings, and round about him, nor from hell One step, no more than from himself, can fly By change of place...
Página 154 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the Muse defend Her son.
Página 22 - Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven •, The roof was fretted gold.
Página 76 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...