Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve BooksSeptimus Prowett, 1829 - 332 páginas |
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... shapes and forms Excelling human ; princely Dignities ; And Powers , that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; ough of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial ; blotted out and raz'd , By 22 [ BOOK . PARADISE LOST .
... shapes and forms Excelling human ; princely Dignities ; And Powers , that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; ough of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial ; blotted out and raz'd , By 22 [ BOOK . PARADISE LOST .
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... shape they choose , Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure , Can execute their aery purposes , And works of love or enmity fulfil . For those the race of Israel forsook Their living strength , and unfrequented left His righteous altar ...
... shape they choose , Dilated or condensed , bright or obscure , Can execute their aery purposes , And works of love or enmity fulfil . For those the race of Israel forsook Their living strength , and unfrequented left His righteous altar ...
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... shapes and sorceries abused Fanatic Egypt , and her priests to seek Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel scape The infection , when their borrow'd gold compos'd The calfin Oreb ; and the ...
... shapes and sorceries abused Fanatic Egypt , and her priests to seek Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel scape The infection , when their borrow'd gold compos'd The calfin Oreb ; and the ...
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... shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch - Angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun , new risen , Looks through ...
... shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All her original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch - Angel ruin'd , and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun , new risen , Looks through ...
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... shapes immense , and were at large , Though without number still , amidst the hall Of that infernal court . But far within , And in their own dimensions , like themselves , The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and ...
... shapes immense , and were at large , Though without number still , amidst the hall Of that infernal court . But far within , And in their own dimensions , like themselves , The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adam Almighty Angel answer'd appear'd arm'd arms aught beast Beelzebub behold bless'd bliss bright burning lake call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud created creatures dark days of Heaven death deep delight didst divine dread dwell Earth eternal evil eyes fair Fair angel faith Father fear Fiend fierce fire fix'd flaming flowers fruit gates glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven Heavenly heighth Hell hill Ithuriel JOHN MILTON join'd King lest light live mankind Messiah mix'd morn Mozambic night o'er ordain'd pain PARADISE LOST pass'd peace praise reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd Seraph serpent shade shalt sight soon spake Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thought throne thyself Tidore tree turn'd Uriel vex'd voice whence wings wonder Zephon
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Página 56 - men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, 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,
Página 8 - what I should be; all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free; the 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
Página 318 - To the subjected plain , then disappear'd. They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms: Some natural tears they dropp'd, but wiped them soon : The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest and providence
Página 17 - or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monare.hs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all the Arch-Angel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd ; and care Sat on his faded
Página 6 - ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind, Moots by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays: So stretch'd out huge in length the Arch-Fiend lay,
Página 31 - up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion ? And who know?, Let this be good, whether our angry Foe Can give it, or will ever 1 How he can, Is doubtful; that he never will, is sure. Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire, Belike
Página 40 - free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then, Of happiness and final misery', Passion and apathy, and glory and shame ,Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy; Yet with a pleasing sorcery, could charm Pain for a while or
Página 2 - revolt? The infernal serpent! he it was, whose guile, Stirr'd up with envy and revenge, deceiv'd The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels; by whose aid aspiring To set himself in glory above his peers, He trusted to have
Página 215 - from each thing met conceives delight: The smell of grain, or tedded grass or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound ; If chance, with nymph-like step, fair virgin pass, What pleasing seem'd, for her now pleases more. She most, and in her look sums all delight; Such pleasure took the Serpent to behold This
Página 16 - Of Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mix'd with auxiliar Gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son, Begirt with British and Armoric knights; And all who since, baptized or infidel, Jousted in Aspramont, or Montalban, Damasco, or Marocco, or Trebisond Or whom Biserta