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... lost happiness , and lasting pain , Torments him ; round he throws his baleful eyes , That witnessed huge affliction and dismay , Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate : Shot after us in storm , o'erblown , hath laid 3 Book.
... lost happiness , and lasting pain , Torments him ; round he throws his baleful eyes , That witnessed huge affliction and dismay , Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate : Shot after us in storm , o'erblown , hath laid 3 Book.
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... pain , Vaunting aloud , but racked with deep despair : And him thus answered soon his bold compeer . " O prince , O ... pains , That we may so suffice his vengeful ire , Or do him mightier service as his thralls By right of war , whate ...
... pain , Vaunting aloud , but racked with deep despair : And him thus answered soon his bold compeer . " O prince , O ... pains , That we may so suffice his vengeful ire , Or do him mightier service as his thralls By right of war , whate ...
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... pain , From mortal or immortal minds . Thus they , Breathing united force , with fixed thought , Moved on in silence to soft pipes , that charmed Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil : and now Advanced in view they stand , a horrid ...
... pain , From mortal or immortal minds . Thus they , Breathing united force , with fixed thought , Moved on in silence to soft pipes , that charmed Their painful steps o'er the burnt soil : and now Advanced in view they stand , a horrid ...
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... pain ? Where there is then no good For which to strive , no strife can grow up there From faction ; for none sure will claim in hell Precedence ; none , whose portion is so small Of present pain , that with ambitious mind Will covet ...
... pain ? Where there is then no good For which to strive , no strife can grow up there From faction ; for none sure will claim in hell Precedence ; none , whose portion is so small Of present pain , that with ambitious mind Will covet ...
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... pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end , The vassals of his anger , when the scourge Inexorably , and the torturing hour We should be quite abolished , and expire . What fear we then ? what doubt we to ...
... pain of unextinguishable fire Must exercise us without hope of end , The vassals of his anger , when the scourge Inexorably , and the torturing hour We should be quite abolished , and expire . What fear we then ? what doubt we to ...
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Page 10 - Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his airy flight, Upborne with indefatigable wings Over the vast abrupt ! — So both ascend In the visions of God — B.