John Miltons Verlorenes Paradies: Erstes Buch

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Kaußler, 1881 - 38 pages

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Page 33 - When I remember all The friends so linked together, I've seen around me fall Like leaves in wintry weather; I feel like one Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, Whose lights are fled, Whose garlands dead, And all but he departed...
Page 36 - Of us outcast, exiled, his new delight, Mankind, created, and for him this world. So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good : by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Page 29 - And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed. Such place Eternal Justice had prepared...
Page 29 - What matter where, if I be still the same And what I should be, all but less than he, Whom thunder hath made greater...
Page 33 - It is perhaps this Humour of Speaking no more than we needs must, which has so miserably curtailed some of our Words, that in familiar Writings and Conversations they often lose all but their first Syllables, as in Mob, rep. pos. incog...
Page 35 - He on his impious foes right onward drove, gloomy as night: under his burning wheels the steadfast empyrean shook throughout, all but the throne itself of God.
Page 35 - So little knows Any, but God alone, to value right The good before him, but perverts best things To worst abuse, or to their meanest use.
Page 34 - In worst extremes, and on the perilous edge Of battle when it raged, in all assaults Their surest signal, they will soon resume New courage and revive, though now they lie...
Page 32 - Early in the fourteenth century the amalgamation of the races was all but complete ; and it was soon made manifest, by signs not to be mistaken, that a people inferior to none existing in the world had been formed by the mixture of three branches of the great Teutonic family with each other, and. with the aboriginal Britons.
Page 32 - Dr. Swift came into the coffee-house, and had a bow from every body but me, who, I confess, could not but despise him. When I came to the antichamber to wait, before prayers, Dr.

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