Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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... hill Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God , I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues IC 15 Chosen seed ...
... hill Delight thee more , and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God , I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues IC 15 Chosen seed ...
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... hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shattered side Of thundering Ætna , whose combustible And fuelled entrails , thence conceiving fire , Sublimed with mineral fury , aid the winds , And leave a singèd bottom all involved With stench and ...
... hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shattered side Of thundering Ætna , whose combustible And fuelled entrails , thence conceiving fire , Sublimed with mineral fury , aid the winds , And leave a singèd bottom all involved With stench and ...
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... him ? 289 . Fesolè ( Lat . Faesulae ; It . Fiesole , the hill above Florence ) .- 290. Valdarno ( It . val , valley ; d'Arno , of the river Arno ) . Location ? - Rivers , or mountains , in her spotty globe . PARADISE LOST . 31.
... him ? 289 . Fesolè ( Lat . Faesulae ; It . Fiesole , the hill above Florence ) .- 290. Valdarno ( It . val , valley ; d'Arno , of the river Arno ) . Location ? - Rivers , or mountains , in her spotty globe . PARADISE LOST . 31.
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... hills , to be the mast On some great ammiral , were but a wand — He walked with , to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle , not like those steps On heaven's azure ; and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides , vaulted with ...
... hills , to be the mast On some great ammiral , were but a wand — He walked with , to support uneasy steps Over the burning marle , not like those steps On heaven's azure ; and the torrid clime Smote on him sore besides , vaulted with ...
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... hill , and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom , Tophet thence And black Gehenna called , the type of hell . 400 405 He personifies destructive fire ? See the allusions to the horrible sacrifices to him in Lev . xviii . 21 ...
... hill , and made his grove The pleasant valley of Hinnom , Tophet thence And black Gehenna called , the type of hell . 400 405 He personifies destructive fire ? See the allusions to the horrible sacrifices to him in Lev . xviii . 21 ...
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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...