The Paradise Lost of Milton, Volume 1Septimus Prowett, 1827 - 24 pages |
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... perhaps Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb His inmost counsels from their destined aim . But see ! the angry Victor hath recalled 164 His ministers of vengeance and pursuit Back to the gates of Heaven : the sulphurous hail ...
... perhaps Shall grieve him , if I fail not , and disturb His inmost counsels from their destined aim . But see ! the angry Victor hath recalled 164 His ministers of vengeance and pursuit Back to the gates of Heaven : the sulphurous hail ...
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... Perhaps hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep . Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn , Or satiate fury , yield it from our Foe . Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild , The ...
... Perhaps hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep . Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn , Or satiate fury , yield it from our Foe . Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild , The ...
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... perhaps Our first eruption ; thither or elsewhere : For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage , nor the abyss Long under darkness cover . But these thoughts Full counsel must mature : peace is despaired ; For ...
... perhaps Our first eruption ; thither or elsewhere : For this infernal pit shall never hold Celestial Spirits in bondage , nor the abyss Long under darkness cover . But these thoughts Full counsel must mature : peace is despaired ; For ...
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... perhaps The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe . Let such bethink them , if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still , That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat ...
... perhaps The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe . Let such bethink them , if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still , That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat ...
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... perhaps , Designing or exhorting glorious war , Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed , the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds ; or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean , wrapt in chains ; There to ...
... perhaps , Designing or exhorting glorious war , Caught in a fiery tempest shall be hurled Each on his rock transfixed , the sport and prey Of wracking whirlwinds ; or for ever sunk Under yon boiling ocean , wrapt in chains ; There to ...
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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.