Milton's Poetical WorksJ. Nichol, 1853 - 661 pages |
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... shapes and forms Excelling human ; princely Dignities And Powers that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial ; blotted out and ras'd By their rebellion from the books of life . Nor ...
... shapes and forms Excelling human ; princely Dignities And Powers that erst in Heaven sat on thrones ; Though of their names in heavenly records now Be no memorial ; blotted out and ras'd By their rebellion from the books of life . Nor ...
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... shape they choose , Dilated or condens'd , bright or obscure , Can execute their aery purposes , And works of love or enmity fulfil . For those the race of Israel oft forsook 1 Chemos : ' idol of Moabites . -2 Aroer , ' ' Nebo ...
... shape they choose , Dilated or condens'd , bright or obscure , Can execute their aery purposes , And works of love or enmity fulfil . For those the race of Israel oft forsook 1 Chemos : ' idol of Moabites . -2 Aroer , ' ' Nebo ...
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... shapes and sorceries abus'd Fanatic Egypt and her priests , to seek Their wandering gods disguis'd in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel ' scape The infection , when their borrow'd gold compos'd The calf in Oreb ; and the ...
... shapes and sorceries abus'd Fanatic Egypt and her priests , to seek Their wandering gods disguis'd in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel ' scape The infection , when their borrow'd gold compos'd The calf in Oreb ; and the ...
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John Milton George Gilfillan. Their dread Commander : He , above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All its original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch - Angel ruin'd ...
John Milton George Gilfillan. Their dread Commander : He , above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower : his form had yet not lost All its original brightness ; nor appear'd Less than Arch - Angel ruin'd ...
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... shapes immense , and were at large , Though without number still amidst the hall Of that infernal court . But far within , And in their own dimensions , like themselves , The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and secret ...
... shapes immense , and were at large , Though without number still amidst the hall Of that infernal court . But far within , And in their own dimensions , like themselves , The great Seraphic Lords and Cherubim In close recess and secret ...
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Page 22 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, 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 12 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 247 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade: those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe ;...
Page 104 - 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; Silence was...
Page 3 - OF 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 4 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 145 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 20 - At which the universal host up-sent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air, With orient colours waving: with them, rose A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable. Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 202 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, 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 came I thus, how here...
Page 210 - Yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.