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... lights as men of letters and retirement usually leave to guide our enquiry would allow , it now only re- mains to be recorded , that , in the year 1674 , the gout put a period to his life , at Bunhill , near Lon- don ; from whence his ...
... lights as men of letters and retirement usually leave to guide our enquiry would allow , it now only re- mains to be recorded , that , in the year 1674 , the gout put a period to his life , at Bunhill , near Lon- don ; from whence his ...
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... light brown , the symmetry of his features exact , enlivened with an agreeable air , and a beautiful mixture of fair and ruddy . His stature ( as we find it measured by himself ) did not exceed the middle - size , neither too lean nor ...
... light brown , the symmetry of his features exact , enlivened with an agreeable air , and a beautiful mixture of fair and ruddy . His stature ( as we find it measured by himself ) did not exceed the middle - size , neither too lean nor ...
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... waste and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides round 60 As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No light , but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe , v Regions 4 Book I. PARADISE LOST .
... waste and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides round 60 As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No light , but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe , v Regions 4 Book I. PARADISE LOST .
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... light of Heav'n , As from the centre thrice to th ' utmost pole . 70 O how unlike the place from whence they fell ! 75 There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , He soon discerns ...
... light of Heav'n , As from the centre thrice to th ' utmost pole . 70 O how unlike the place from whence they fell ! 75 There the companions of his fall , o'erwhelm'd With floods and whirlwinds of tempestuous fire , He soon discerns ...
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... boundless deep . Let us not slip th ' occasion , whether scorn , Or satiate fury yield it from our foe . Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild , 180 The seat of desolation , void of light Save what Book I. PARADISE LOST .
... boundless deep . Let us not slip th ' occasion , whether scorn , Or satiate fury yield it from our foe . Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild , 180 The seat of desolation , void of light Save what Book I. PARADISE LOST .
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Adam Almighty Angel appear'd Archangel arm'd arms beast Beelzebub behold bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud created creatures dark death deep delight didst divine dread dwell eternal etherial evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith fall'n fallen angel Father fear Fiend fierce fire fix'd flow'rs fruit gates glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heav'n and Earth heav'nly Hell hill Ithuriel JOHN MILTON join'd King lest light live mankind Messiah Moloch morn night Nisroch o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Lost pass'd peace pleas'd pow'r rais'd reign reply'd return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd Seraph Serpent shalt sight soon sov'reign spake Spi'rits Spirit stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thyself tree turn'd vex'd voice wand'ring whence wings
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Page 58 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 18 - Less than archangel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 222 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 301 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 60 - Not me? They therefore as to right belong'd, So were created; nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination...
Page 303 - For God is also in sleep ; and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep : but now lead on — In me is no delay : with thee to go, Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence.
Page 186 - ... so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures^ tell, Tell, if ye saw, how...
Page 182 - What if the sun Be centre to the world, and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds...
Page 96 - 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 other's note, Singing their great Creator ! oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night,...
Page 27 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...