The Paradise Lost of Milton, Volume 1Septimus Prowett, 1827 - 24 pages |
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... Messiah King anointed , could not bear 658 Through pride that sight , and thought himself impaired . Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain , 666 Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to 180 [ BOOK V. PARADISE LOST .
... Messiah King anointed , could not bear 658 Through pride that sight , and thought himself impaired . Deep malice thence conceiving and disdain , 666 Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to 180 [ BOOK V. PARADISE LOST .
Page 181
... prepare Fit entertainment to receive our King , The great Messiah , and his new commands , Who speedily through all the hierarchies • 675 684 692 Intends to pass triumphant , and give laws . So BOOK V. ] 181 PARADISE LOST .
... prepare Fit entertainment to receive our King , The great Messiah , and his new commands , Who speedily through all the hierarchies • 675 684 692 Intends to pass triumphant , and give laws . So BOOK V. ] 181 PARADISE LOST .
Page 184
... Messiah was declared in sight of Heaven , The Mountain of the Congregation called ; For thither he assembled all his train , Pretending so commanded to consult About the great reception of their King , Thither to come , and with ...
... Messiah was declared in sight of Heaven , The Mountain of the Congregation called ; For thither he assembled all his train , Pretending so commanded to consult About the great reception of their King , Thither to come , and with ...
Page 189
... Messiah ; those indulgent laws Will not be now vouchsafed ; other decrees Against thee are gone forth without recall ; That golden scepter , which thou didst reject , Is now an iron rod to bruise and break Thy disobedience . Well thou ...
... Messiah ; those indulgent laws Will not be now vouchsafed ; other decrees Against thee are gone forth without recall ; That golden scepter , which thou didst reject , Is now an iron rod to bruise and break Thy disobedience . Well thou ...
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... MESSIAH his son , for whom he had reserved the glory of that victory : He , in the power of his Father , coming to the place , and causing all his legions to stand still on either side , with his chariot and thunder driving into the ...
... MESSIAH his son , for whom he had reserved the glory of that victory : He , in the power of his Father , coming to the place , and causing all his legions to stand still on either side , with his chariot and thunder driving into the ...
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Abdiel Adam adore Almighty angelick Angels Arch-Angel arms battle Beelzebub behold Belial bliss burning lake celestial chariot Cherub Cherubim cloud creatures dark deeds deep delight Designed & Engraved divine dread earth equal eternal ethereal evil fair Fair Angel fall Father fear fell Fiend fierce fiery fire flames flowers gates glory Gods gold golden grace hand happy hast hate hath Heaven heavenly Hell highth hill honour horrid horrour host infernal Ithuriel King legions less light Messiah Moloch night o'er once ordained pain PARADISE LOST praise rage reign revenge round Satan Satan return scaped seat seemed Seraph Seraphim shade shalt shape sight soon sovran spake Spirits stood sweet taste terrour Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself Uriel wall of Heaven Weening whence winds wings wonder Zephon
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Page 138 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds, nor rising sun On this delightful land, nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew, nor fragrance after showers, Nor grateful evening mild, nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 13 - Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 162 - Ye mists and exhalations, that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky, or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise...
Page 139 - Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep. All these with ceaseless praise his works behold, Both day and night. How often, from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to others...
Page 136 - 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 114 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads — to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 81 - Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the Sun, Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising World of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite...
Page 138 - When first on this delightful Land he spreads His orient Beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful Evening mild...
Page 83 - 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 161 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, , Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.