Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page vii
... hands , wings , or feet , pursues his way , And swims , or sinks , or wades , or creeps , or flies . ' Yet it is an ocean ' Outrageous as a sea , dark , wasteful , wild , Up from the bottom turned by furious winds , And surging waves as ...
... hands , wings , or feet , pursues his way , And swims , or sinks , or wades , or creeps , or flies . ' Yet it is an ocean ' Outrageous as a sea , dark , wasteful , wild , Up from the bottom turned by furious winds , And surging waves as ...
Page xvi
... hand . Your Head I him appoint , And by myself have sworn to him shall bow All knees in Heaven , and shall confess him Lord . " - - With joy and obedience is this decree received throughout the hierarchies , save in one quarter . One of ...
... hand . Your Head I him appoint , And by myself have sworn to him shall bow All knees in Heaven , and shall confess him Lord . " - - With joy and obedience is this decree received throughout the hierarchies , save in one quarter . One of ...
Page xviii
... hands , centres one point of them where he stands and turns the other through the obscure profundity around ( VII . 224–231 ) . Thus are marked out , or cut out , through the body of Chaos , the limits of the new Universe of Man - that ...
... hands , centres one point of them where he stands and turns the other through the obscure profundity around ( VII . 224–231 ) . Thus are marked out , or cut out , through the body of Chaos , the limits of the new Universe of Man - that ...
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... hand of the author . But in 1668 it was inserted in those which remained to be bound . There was added a statement by the printer as follows : - " Courteous Reader : There was no Argument at first intended to the book ; but for the ...
... hand of the author . But in 1668 it was inserted in those which remained to be bound . There was added a statement by the printer as follows : - " Courteous Reader : There was no Argument at first intended to the book ; but for the ...
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... hand , that the good angels pursued the bad to the verge of hell ( confirmed by Moloch , Book II . 78 , 79 ) , and the statement of Raphael on the other hand , that all the holy angels stood anap Back to the gates of heaven ; the ...
... hand , that the good angels pursued the bad to the verge of hell ( confirmed by Moloch , Book II . 78 , 79 ) , and the statement of Raphael on the other hand , that all the holy angels stood anap Back to the gates of heaven ; the ...
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Abarim abyss abyss of Chaos Æneid Almighty amphibrach ancient angels Argob arms Beelzebub behold Belial Boeotia Book bright burning cæsura called centre Chaos Comus Dante darkness death deep Deity devils Dict dread earth Empyrean Eneid English eternal evil Exod Faerie Queene fiery fire flames flowers force fury gates glory gods Greek hath heaven heavenly hell Hesiod highth hill Himes Homer Iliad infernal Jove Julius Cæsar Keightley king Latin light Lycidas Macbeth Masson meaning Milton Moloch Muse night o'er Old Eng Ovid pain Pantheon Paradise Lost passage perhaps phrase poem poetry poets region reign rhyme river Satan says seat seems sense Shakes Shakespeare song sound space Spenser spirits Starry Universe stood Storr sublime syllable Tartarus temple thee thence Theocritus thou thought throne thunder utter vast verse viii Virgil Wedgwood winds wings word
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Page xxix - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge 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.
Page 42 - 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.
Page 27 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights; if it were land that ever...