The Paradise LostBaker and Scribner, 1850 - 542 pages |
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... painful . The most amazing copiousness of learning is sublimated into all his concep- tions and descriptions . His learning never oppressed his imagination ; and his imagination never obliterated or dimmed his learning ; but even these ...
... painful . The most amazing copiousness of learning is sublimated into all his concep- tions and descriptions . His learning never oppressed his imagination ; and his imagination never obliterated or dimmed his learning ; but even these ...
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... pains had not been taken by Newton to distribute in detail to every part of the poem the criticisms of Addison . Besides this , he introduced them entire , and thus occupied his pages with much matter quite inferior to that which has ...
... pains had not been taken by Newton to distribute in detail to every part of the poem the criticisms of Addison . Besides this , he introduced them entire , and thus occupied his pages with much matter quite inferior to that which has ...
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... pain 55 Torments him ; round he throws his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay , Mix'd with obdurate pride and steadfast hate : At once , as far as angels ' ken , he views The dismal situation waste and wild : 60 A ...
... pain 55 Torments him ; round he throws his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay , Mix'd with obdurate pride and steadfast hate : At once , as far as angels ' ken , he views The dismal situation waste and wild : 60 A ...
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... pains which it over- powers . There is something kindling and ennobling in the consciousness , however awakened , of the energy which resides in mind ; and many a vir- tuous man has borrowed new strength from the force , constancy , and ...
... pains which it over- powers . There is something kindling and ennobling in the consciousness , however awakened , of the energy which resides in mind ; and many a vir- tuous man has borrowed new strength from the force , constancy , and ...
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... pain , Vaunting aloud , but rack'd with deep despair : And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer . O Prince , O ... pains , That we may so suffice his vengeful ire , Or do him mightier service as his thralls By right of war , whate'er ...
... pain , Vaunting aloud , but rack'd with deep despair : And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer . O Prince , O ... pains , That we may so suffice his vengeful ire , Or do him mightier service as his thralls By right of war , whate'er ...
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Page 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...
Page 104 - 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 17 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 92 - 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.
Page 174 - 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...
Page 175 - Nor think, though men were none, That Heaven would want spectators, God want praise. 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.
Page 76 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 199 - The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep, Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord! Be bounteous still To give us only good; and, if the night Have gathered aught of evil, or concealed, Disperse it, as now light dispels the dark.
Page 90 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 50 - The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse.