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... sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes , That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed ...
... sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace And rest can never dwell ; hope never comes , That comes to all ; but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed ...
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... and heaven : with what difficulty he passes through , directed by Chaos , the Power of that place , to the sight of this new world which he sought . ARGUMENT . La délibération commencée , SATAN examine si une THE ARGUMENT. ...
... and heaven : with what difficulty he passes through , directed by Chaos , the Power of that place , to the sight of this new world which he sought . ARGUMENT . La délibération commencée , SATAN examine si une THE ARGUMENT. ...
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... Sight more detestable than him and thee . " To whom thus the portress of hell gate replied : - - " Hast thou forgot me then , and do I seem Now in thine eye so foul , once deem'd so fair In heaven ? when at the assembly , and in sight ...
... Sight more detestable than him and thee . " To whom thus the portress of hell gate replied : - - " Hast thou forgot me then , and do I seem Now in thine eye so foul , once deem'd so fair In heaven ? when at the assembly , and in sight ...
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... . Thus with the year Seasons return , but not to me returns Day , or the sweet approach of even or morn , Or sight of vernal bloom , or summer's rose , ténèbres extérieures et moyennes , j'ai chanté , avec des 162 BOOK III .
... . Thus with the year Seasons return , but not to me returns Day , or the sweet approach of even or morn , Or sight of vernal bloom , or summer's rose , ténèbres extérieures et moyennes , j'ai chanté , avec des 162 BOOK III .
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... sight . Now had the Almighty Father from above , From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all highth , bent down his eye , His own works and their works at once to view . About him all the sanctities of heaven Stood thick ...
... sight . Now had the Almighty Father from above , From the pure empyrean where he sits High throned above all highth , bent down his eye , His own works and their works at once to view . About him all the sanctities of heaven Stood thick ...
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Adam Almighty angels anges another world arms behold bliss bounds bright bring call'd Chaos ciel clouds created créatures dark darkness death deep DIEU divine earth envy equal Esprits eternal ethereal evil extol Father fear fell fiend find fire firmament first forth found free full gates glory gods gold good grace great hand happy hast hath head heaven heavenly hell high hill his enemy his punishment hope infernal King know l'Enfer l'homme less light look lost love made mankind Milton mind night nuit o'er offspring once Paradise pass'd perhaps power powers praise reign round Satan scorn seat seem'd seest shade shape shone side sight soon spake spirits stand state stood sweet taste terre their thence things thither thou though thoughts Thrice throne thus thyself Tree of Knowledge trône Uriel whence whom wide winds wings words works world worse
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Page 20 - 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.
Page 318 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 264 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 222 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell ; myself am hell ; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Page 158 - And Wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial light, Shine inward, and the mind, through all her powers, Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page xxiv - OF man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 16 - Had risen or heaved his head, but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs, That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation, while he sought Evil to others...
Page 56 - Opening their brazen folds discover, wide Within, her ample spaces o'er the smooth And level pavement ; from the arched roof, Pendent by subtle magic, many a row Of starry lamps and blazing cressets, fed With naphtha and asphaltus, yielded light As from a sky.
Page 304 - Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, Heaven's last best gift, my ever new delight ! Awake : the morning shines, and the fresh field Calls us; we lose the prime, to mark how spring Our tended plants, how blows the citron grove, What drops the myrrh, and what the balmy reed, How nature paints her colours, how the bee Sits on the bloom extracting liquid sweet.
Page 350 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best — though what if earth Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein Each to other like more than on earth is thought...