The Paradise LostBaker and Scribner, 1851 - 542 páginas |
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... raised from the heat of youth or the vapors of wine ; nor to be obtained of dame 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 ...
... raised from the heat of youth or the vapors of wine ; nor to be obtained of dame 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 ...
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... raise his poem , and in everything which he added out of his own invention he was obliged , from the nature of the subject , to proceed with the greatest caution ; yet he has filled his story with a surprising num- ber of incidents ...
... raise his poem , and in everything which he added out of his own invention he was obliged , from the nature of the subject , to proceed with the greatest caution ; yet he has filled his story with a surprising num- ber of incidents ...
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... raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument may assert eternal Providence , And justify the ways ... raising the imagi- nation up to the grandeur of the subject , in adequate conception of its mighti- ness , and in ...
... raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument may assert eternal Providence , And justify the ways ... raising the imagi- nation up to the grandeur of the subject , in adequate conception of its mighti- ness , and in ...
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... Raised impious war in Heav'n , and battle proud With vain attempt . Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th ' ethereal sky , With hideous ruin and combustion , down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine ...
... Raised impious war in Heav'n , and battle proud With vain attempt . Him the Almighty Power Hurl'd headlong flaming from th ' ethereal sky , With hideous ruin and combustion , down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine ...
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... raised me to contend , And to the fierce çontention brought along Innumerable force of Spirits arm'd , 100 That durst dislike his reign , and me preferring , His utmost pow'r with adverse pow'r opposed In dubious battle on the plains of ...
... raised me to contend , And to the fierce çontention brought along Innumerable force of Spirits arm'd , 100 That durst dislike his reign , and me preferring , His utmost pow'r with adverse pow'r opposed In dubious battle on the plains of ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Adam Adam and Eve Æneid Alcinous allusion ancient angels appear'd beast beautiful Beelzebub behold bliss Book bright call'd called celestial Chaos Cherubim cloud created creation creatures dark death deep delight described divine dreadful dwell earth eternal ev'ning evil expression fabled fair fallen angels Father fire flow'rs fruit gates glory gods grace hand happy hast hath Heav'n heav'nly Hell Hesiod hill Homer human Iliad imagination infernal Jupiter King light live mankind Messiah Milton mind Moloch moon nature Newton night numbers Ophion Ovid pain Paradise Lost passage poem poet poetical poetry pow'r reader return'd river round sacred sapience Satan says Scripture seem'd sense serpent sight spake speech spirit stars stood sublime supposed sweet taste thee thence things thou thought throne tree turn'd Virg Virgil whence winds wings word
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Página 343 - And out of the ground the LORD God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air; and brought them unto Adam to see what he would call them: and whatsoever Adam called every living creature, that was the name thereof.
Página 8 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame 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...
Página 102 - The guarded gold : so eagerly the Fiend O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Página 118 - 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 everduring 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.
Página 184 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Página 211 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 100 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Página 212 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Página 398 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Página 183 - Unargued I obey; so God ordains, God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.