The Paradise LostBaker and Scribner, 1851 - 542 pages |
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... earth , which is here called the utmost pole . It is observable that Homer makes the seat of hell as far beneath the deepest pit of earth as the heaven is above the earth , Iliad viii . 16 ; Virgil makes it twice as far , Eneid vi . 577 ...
... earth , which is here called the utmost pole . It is observable that Homer makes the seat of hell as far beneath the deepest pit of earth as the heaven is above the earth , Iliad viii . 16 ; Virgil makes it twice as far , Eneid vi . 577 ...
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... Earth - born , that warr'd on Jove , 195 192. The incidents , in the passage that follows , to which Addison calls at- tention , are , Satan's being the first that wakens out of the general trance , his posture on the burning lake , his ...
... Earth - born , that warr'd on Jove , 195 192. The incidents , in the passage that follows , to which Addison calls at- tention , are , Satan's being the first that wakens out of the general trance , his posture on the burning lake , his ...
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... earth , durst fix Their seats long after next the seat of God , Their altars by his altar , Gods adored Among the nations round , and durst abide 380 385 its nature connected with everything important in the circumstances of hu- man ...
... earth , durst fix Their seats long after next the seat of God , Their altars by his altar , Gods adored Among the nations round , and durst abide 380 385 its nature connected with everything important in the circumstances of hu- man ...
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... Earth , Their boasted parents : Titan , Heav'n's first - born , With his enormous brood , and birthright seized By younger Saturn : he from mightier Jove , His own and Rhea's son , like measure found ; So Jove usurping reign'd : these ...
... Earth , Their boasted parents : Titan , Heav'n's first - born , With his enormous brood , and birthright seized By younger Saturn : he from mightier Jove , His own and Rhea's son , like measure found ; So Jove usurping reign'd : these ...
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... earth , was imagined by the ancients to sicken and swoon , as if she were going to die . By some very ancient nations she was supposed , at such times , to be in pain ; and , in order to relieve her fan- cied distress , they lifted ...
... earth , was imagined by the ancients to sicken and swoon , as if she were going to die . By some very ancient nations she was supposed , at such times , to be in pain ; and , in order to relieve her fan- cied distress , they lifted ...
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Page 193 - My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 40 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 43 - In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 8 - Memory and her siren daughters, but by devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 261 - O Friends ! why come not on these victors proud? Ere while they fierce were coming ; and when we, To entertain them fair with open front And breast, (what could we more?) propounded terms Of composition, straight they...
Page 173 - 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.
Page 31 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure: and in my choice. To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
Page 471 - O unexpected stroke, worse than of death! Must I thus leave thee, Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil, these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of gods? where I had hope to spend, Quiet though sad, the respite of that day That must be mortal to us both. O...
Page 170 - 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 ; Silence was pleased : now...
Page 114 - 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.