Paradise Lost: In Twelve Parts |
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Thee lastly , nuptial bower ! by me adorn'd 280 With what to sight or smell was sweet ! from thee How shall I part , and whither wander down Into a lower world ; to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Loss pure ...
Thee lastly , nuptial bower ! by me adorn'd 280 With what to sight or smell was sweet ! from thee How shall I part , and whither wander down Into a lower world ; to this obscure And wild ? how shall we breathe in other air Loss pure ...
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Adam Angels arms bliss bound bring cause cloud created dark death deep delight divine dread dust dwell earth eternal evil fair faith fall fate Father fear field fire flames force fruit give glory Gods hand happy hast hath head heart Heaven Hell hope hour human immortal King leave less light live look Lorenzo lost man's mankind mind mortal Nature Nature's never night o'er once pain Paradise peace perhaps pleasure praise pride proud raise Reason rest rise round Satan scene sense side sight skies smile song sons soon soul Spirits stand stars stood strange sweet taste thee thine things thou thought throne till tree true truth turn virtue wide wing wisdom wise wonder
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Página 15 - Arch-Angel 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.
Página 7 - 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...
Página 29 - A pillar of state ; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic though in ruin. Sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Página 8 - Princes, potentates, Warriors, the flower of heaven, once yours, now lost, If such astonishment as this can seize Eternal spirits; or have ye chosen this place After the toil of battle to repose Your wearied virtue, for the ease you find To slumber here, as in the vales of heaven ? Or in this abject posture have ye sworn To...
Página 46 - 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: But neither breath of morn, when she ascends...
Página 36 - Flowers worthy of Paradise, which not nice Art In beds and curious knots, but Nature boon Pour'd forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain, Both where the morning sun first warmly smote The open field, and where the unpierced shade 245 Imbrown'd the noontide bowers : Thus was this place A happy rural seat of various view ; Groves whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balm.
Página 172 - But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Página 246 - 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...
Página 8 - Waved round the coast, up call'da pitchy cloud Of locusts, warping on the eastern wind, That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile...