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... though immortal ; but his doom Reserv'd him to more wrath ; for now the
thought Both of lost happiness , and lasting pain Torments him : Round he throws
his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay , Mix'd with obdurate
pride ...
... though immortal ; but his doom Reserv'd him to more wrath ; for now the
thought Both of lost happiness , and lasting pain Torments him : Round he throws
his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay , Mix'd with obdurate
pride ...
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437 v4.5.90 Seis'd us , though undismay'd : Long is the way And hard , that out of
Hell leads up to light ' ; Our prison strong ; this huge convex of fire , Outrageous to
devour , immures us round Ninefold ; and gates of burning adamant , Barr'd ...
437 v4.5.90 Seis'd us , though undismay'd : Long is the way And hard , that out of
Hell leads up to light ' ; Our prison strong ; this huge convex of fire , Outrageous to
devour , immures us round Ninefold ; and gates of burning adamant , Barr'd ...
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Mean while upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world , whose first convex
divides The luminous inferiour orbs , enclos'd From Chaos , and the inroad of
Darkness old , Satan alighted walks : a globe far off It seem'd , now seems a ...
Mean while upon the firm opacous globe Of this round world , whose first convex
divides The luminous inferiour orbs , enclos'd From Chaos , and the inroad of
Darkness old , Satan alighted walks : a globe far off It seem'd , now seems a ...
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... whence no way round Shadow from body opaque can fall ; and the air , No
where so clear , sharpen'd his visual ray To objects distant far , whereby he soon
Saw within ken a glorious Angel stand , The same whom John saw also in the
sun ...
... whence no way round Shadow from body opaque can fall ; and the air , No
where so clear , sharpen'd his visual ray To objects distant far , whereby he soon
Saw within ken a glorious Angel stand , The same whom John saw also in the
sun ...
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But wherefore all night long shine these ? for whom This glorious sight , when
sleep hath shut all eyes ? To whom our general ancestor replied . Daughter of
God and Man , accomplish'd Eve , These have their course to finish round the
earth ...
But wherefore all night long shine these ? for whom This glorious sight , when
sleep hath shut all eyes ? To whom our general ancestor replied . Daughter of
God and Man , accomplish'd Eve , These have their course to finish round the
earth ...
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Page 30 - From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the /Egean isle : thus they relate, Erring...
Page 77 - Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
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 13 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore ; his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, 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 129 - 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 pleased: now...
Page 108 - O thou that with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down 40 Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king: Ah wherefore!
Page 79 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 420 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Wav'd over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces throng'd, and fiery arms. Some natural tears they dropped, but wiped them soon; The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide : They, hand in hand, with wandering steps and slow, Through Eden took their solitary way.
Page 5 - A dungeon horrible on all sides round, As one great furnace flam'd ; yet from those flames No light ; but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace 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...
Page 179 - 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.
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| Title | Paradise Lost, and the Fragment of a Commentary upon it by William Cowper Volume 2 of Cowper's Milton, in Four Volumes, William Cowper |
| Author | William Hayley |
| Publisher | W. Mason, 1810 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 26 Aug 2006 |
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