Paradise Lost ...The University Press, 1924 |
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Abyss Adam Adamo Adamus Exul Æneid alludes allusion Almighty Appen archangel Areopagitica arms battle Beelzebub Belial blank verse Cædmon called Chaos Cherubim Chorus classical Comus dæmons darkness Death deep deity Demogorgon described dread Dryden Earth edition Elizabethan Empyrean English epic evil Exod fall fallen angels Faust-book Faustus fire flames gods golden Greek hath Heaven Heavenly Hell Henry Lawes Hesiod highth infernal Italian Keightley King Latin less lines Lord Lucifer Lycidas Mammon Masson meant metre Milton Moloch moon night Ophiuchus pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass passage perhaps poem poet poetry prose reference region reign rhyme Samson Agonistes Satan says scene seems sense Seraphim Shak Shakespeare Sonnet Spenser Spheres Spirits Tennyson thee thence thou thought throne tragedy trochee verb Vergil Vulgate whence wings words writers Zeus
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Page xxvi - Yet be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.
Page 21 - First, Moloch, horrid King, besmeared with blood Of human sacrifice, and parents' tears; Though, for the noise of drums and timbrels loud, Their children's cries unheard that passed through fire To his grim idol.
Page 136 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Page 9 - Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning, how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 75 - Begin then, Sisters of the sacred well That from beneath the seat of Jove doth spring, Begin, and somewhat loudly sweep the string...
Page 5 - The measure is English heroic verse, without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 66 - O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 93 - And when they arose early on the morrow morning, behold, Dagon was fallen upon his face to the ground before the ark of the LORD ; and the head of Dagon and both the palms of his hands were cut off upon the threshold; only the stump of Dagon was left to him.
Page 32 - Indian mount ; or faery elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course...
Page 13 - To wage by force or guile eternal war, Irreconcilable to our grand foe, Who now triumphs, and, in the excess of joy Sole reigning, holds the tyranny of heaven.