Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IILeach, Shewell, & Sanborn, 1896 - 201 pages |
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... dark- ness , fitliest called Chaos . Here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning lake , thunderstruck and astonished , after a certain space recovers , as from confusion , calls up him [ 79 ] who next in order and dignity lay by him ...
... dark- ness , fitliest called Chaos . Here Satan with his Angels lying on the burning lake , thunderstruck and astonished , after a certain space recovers , as from confusion , calls up him [ 79 ] who next in order and dignity lay by him ...
Page 53
... dark , Illumine ; what is low , raise and support ; That , to the highth of this great argument , 53 21 Theme and in- vocation . Fall demanded . I may assert Eternal Providence , And MILTON'S REMARKS ON 'THE VERSE' PARADISE LOST Book I.
... dark , Illumine ; what is low , raise and support ; That , to the highth of this great argument , 53 21 Theme and in- vocation . Fall demanded . I may assert Eternal Providence , And MILTON'S REMARKS ON 'THE VERSE' PARADISE LOST Book I.
Page 55
... darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace 65 And rest can never dwell , hope never comes That comes to all , but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed ...
... darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , doleful shades , where peace 65 And rest can never dwell , hope never comes That comes to all , but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed ...
Page 60
... dark designs , That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation , while he sought Evil to others , and enraged might see How all his malice served but to bring forth Infinite goodness , grace , and mercy , shown On man by ...
... dark designs , That with reiterated crimes he might Heap on himself damnation , while he sought Evil to others , and enraged might see How all his malice served but to bring forth Infinite goodness , grace , and mercy , shown On man by ...
Page 66
... darkness durst affront His light . First , Moloch , horrid king , besmeared with blood - 390 Of human sacrifice , and parents ' tears - Though , for the noise of drums and timbrels loud , Their children's cries unheard that passed ...
... darkness durst affront His light . First , Moloch , horrid king , besmeared with blood - 390 Of human sacrifice , and parents ' tears - Though , for the noise of drums and timbrels loud , Their children's cries unheard that passed ...
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Page 70 - 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 38 - 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 62 - 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 57 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 181 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 105 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 105 - And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides ; Hell trembled as he strode.
Page 87 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 63 - 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. His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 136 - There it was that I found and visited the famous Galileo, grown old, a prisoner to the Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licensers thought.