The Paradise LostBaker and Scribner, 1851 - 542 pages |
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Page 13
... sight , and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts . " Surely this was quite impossible , for the reason which Johnson himself has given . The im- agination , by its natural tendencies , always embodies spirit . Poetry deals ...
... sight , and enticing his reader to drop it from his thoughts . " Surely this was quite impossible , for the reason which Johnson himself has given . The im- agination , by its natural tendencies , always embodies spirit . Poetry deals ...
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... sight , and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts . " This is easily said ; but what if he could not seduce the reader to drop it from his thoughts ? What if the con- trary opinion had taken so full a possession of the minds ...
... sight , and seducing the reader to drop it from his thoughts . " This is easily said ; but what if he could not seduce the reader to drop it from his thoughts ? What if the con- trary opinion had taken so full a possession of the minds ...
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... sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , do ful shades , where peace And rest can never dwell : hope never comes , That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed ...
... sights of woe , Regions of sorrow , do ful shades , where peace And rest can never dwell : hope never comes , That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed ...
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... sight of his immense army , and reflecting that they were mortal , at the time that he was hastening them to their fate , and to the intended destruction of the most polished people in the world , to gratify his own vain glory . - N ...
... sight of his immense army , and reflecting that they were mortal , at the time that he was hastening them to their fate , and to the intended destruction of the most polished people in the world , to gratify his own vain glory . - N ...
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... gulf between Hell and Heaven ; with what difficulty he passes through , directed by Chaos , the power of that place , to the sight of this new world which he sought . INTRODUCTORY REMARKS . In tracing the progress of this poem BOOK II. ...
... gulf between Hell and Heaven ; with what difficulty he passes through , directed by Chaos , the power of that place , to the sight of this new world which he sought . INTRODUCTORY REMARKS . In tracing the progress of this poem BOOK II. ...
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Page 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.
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 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 100 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.