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... wand'ring o'er the earth , Through God's high sufferance for the tri'al of man , By falsities and lies the greatest part Of mankind they corrupted to forsake God their Creator , and the invisible Glory of him that made them to transform ...
... wand'ring o'er the earth , Through God's high sufferance for the tri'al of man , By falsities and lies the greatest part Of mankind they corrupted to forsake God their Creator , and the invisible Glory of him that made them to transform ...
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... wand'ring Gods , disguis'd in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel ' scape 485 Th ' infection , when their borrow'd gold compos'd The calf in Oreb ; and the rebel king Doubled that sin in Bethel and in Dan , Likening his ...
... wand'ring Gods , disguis'd in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel ' scape 485 Th ' infection , when their borrow'd gold compos'd The calf in Oreb ; and the rebel king Doubled that sin in Bethel and in Dan , Likening his ...
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... wand'ring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss , And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way , or spread his airy flight , Upborne with indefatigable wings , Over the vast abrupt , ere he arrive 396 400 405 The happy ...
... wand'ring feet The dark unbottom'd infinite abyss , And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way , or spread his airy flight , Upborne with indefatigable wings , Over the vast abrupt , ere he arrive 396 400 405 The happy ...
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... wand'ring , each his several way Pursues , as inclination or sad choice 526 Leads him , perplex'd where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts , and entertain The irksome hours till his great Chief return . Part on the ...
... wand'ring , each his several way Pursues , as inclination or sad choice 526 Leads him , perplex'd where he may likeliest find Truce to his restless thoughts , and entertain The irksome hours till his great Chief return . Part on the ...
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... wand'ring mazes lost . Of good and evil much they argued then , Of happiness and final misery , Passion and apathy , and glory ' and shame , Vain wisdom all , and false philosophy : Yet with a pleasing sorcery could charm Pain for a ...
... wand'ring mazes lost . Of good and evil much they argued then , Of happiness and final misery , Passion and apathy , and glory ' and shame , Vain wisdom all , and false philosophy : Yet with a pleasing sorcery could charm Pain for a ...
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Adam Almighty Angel appear'd Archangel arm'd arms beast Beelzebub behold bliss bright burning lake call'd Canaan celestial Cherub Cherubim cloud created creatures dark death deep delight didst divine dread dwell eternal etherial evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith fall'n fallen angel Father fear Fiend fierce fire fix'd flow'rs fruit gates glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath heard heart Heav'n and Earth heav'nly Hell hill Ithuriel JOHN MILTON join'd King lest light live mankind Messiah Moloch morn night Nisroch o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Lost pass'd peace pleas'd pow'r rais'd reign reply'd return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd Seraph Serpent shalt sight soon sov'reign spake Spi'rits Spirit stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thyself tree turn'd vex'd voice wand'ring whence wings
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Page 58 - Tunes her nocturnal note : 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...
Page 18 - Less than archangel ruin'd, 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 222 - Should God create another Eve, and I Another rib afford, yet loss of thee Would never from my heart : no, no ! I feel The link of nature draw me : flesh of flesh, Bone of my bone thou art, and from thy state Mine never shall be parted, bliss or woe.
Page 301 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 60 - Not me? They therefore as to right belong'd, So were created; nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination...
Page 303 - For God is also in sleep ; and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good Presaging, since, with sorrow and heart's distress Wearied, I fell asleep : but now lead on — In me is no delay : with thee to go, Is to stay here ; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling ; thou to me Art all things under heaven, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence.
Page 186 - ... 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...
Page 182 - What if the sun Be centre to the world, and other stars, By his attractive virtue and their own Incited, dance about him various rounds...
Page 96 - 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. How often from the steep Of echoing hill or thicket have we heard Celestial voices to the midnight air, Sole, or responsive each to other's note, Singing their great Creator ! oft in bands While they keep watch, or nightly rounding walk, With heavenly touch of instrumental sounds, In full harmonic number join'd, their songs Divide the night,...
Page 27 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold, Satan exalted sat...