Poetical Works, Volume 2Macmillan, 1893 |
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Page 31
... wide , rolling inwards , and disclosing a spacious gap into the dark Abyss or Chaos . Horrorstruck they start back ; but worse urges them behind . Headlong they fling themselves down , eternal wrath burning after them , and driving them ...
... wide , rolling inwards , and disclosing a spacious gap into the dark Abyss or Chaos . Horrorstruck they start back ; but worse urges them behind . Headlong they fling themselves down , eternal wrath burning after them , and driving them ...
Page 32
... wide to let him pass forth ; and , clothed with majesty , and accom- panied with thousands of Seraphim and Cherubim , anxious to behold the great work to be done , he does pass forth , - far into that very Chaos through which the Rebel ...
... wide to let him pass forth ; and , clothed with majesty , and accom- panied with thousands of Seraphim and Cherubim , anxious to behold the great work to be done , he does pass forth , - far into that very Chaos through which the Rebel ...
Page 35
... wide In circuit , undetermined square or round , With opal towers and battlements adorned Of living sapphire , once his native seat , And , fast by , hanging in a golden chain , This pendent World , in bigness as a star Of smallest ...
... wide In circuit , undetermined square or round , With opal towers and battlements adorned Of living sapphire , once his native seat , And , fast by , hanging in a golden chain , This pendent World , in bigness as a star Of smallest ...
Page 63
... wide field how he his way should find O'er which lame Faith leads Understanding blind ; Lest he perplexed the things he would explain , And what was easy he should render vain . Or , if a work so infinite he spanned , Jealous I was that ...
... wide field how he his way should find O'er which lame Faith leads Understanding blind ; Lest he perplexed the things he would explain , And what was easy he should render vain . Or , if a work so infinite he spanned , Jealous I was that ...
Page 88
... 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 . The ...
... 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 . The ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Aldersgate Street Almighty Angels Archangel arms beast Beelzebub behold blindness bliss BOOK burning lake called celestial Chaos Cherub Cherubim cloud creatures dark death deep delight divine dreadful dwell Earth Empyrean eternal evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith Father fear Fiend fierce fire flowers fruit gates glory gods grace hand happy hath heart Heaven Heavenly Hell highth hill human Ithuriel John Milton King labour less lest light live mankind Messiah Milton mind night o'er pain Paradise Lost peace poem Primum Mobile Ptolemaic system reign replied round sapience Satan seat seemed Serpent shalt sight soon sovran spake Sphere Spirits starry stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thought throne thunder thyself tree Universe voice whence wings wonder World Zephon