The State of Innocence and Fall of Man Described in Milton's Paradise Lost. Render'd Into Prose with ... Notes from the French of ... Raymond [or Rather Nicolas François Dupré] de St. Maur. By a Gentleman of Oxford [George Smith Green].T. Osborne, 1745 - 436 pages |
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... Head lifted up above the Waves , and glancing his Eyes from Side to Side : As for his other Parts , he lay extended in a melancholy Condition , floating in Length and Breadth over a vast Space of the Abyss ; as large in Bulk as thofe ...
... Head lifted up above the Waves , and glancing his Eyes from Side to Side : As for his other Parts , he lay extended in a melancholy Condition , floating in Length and Breadth over a vast Space of the Abyss ; as large in Bulk as thofe ...
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... Head , they fay , reached to Heaven , his Hands from one End of the Earth to the other , and he blew Fire out of his Mouth . These two were the chief of the Giants . In the War with the Gods they heaped Mountains upon Mountains , and ...
... Head , they fay , reached to Heaven , his Hands from one End of the Earth to the other , and he blew Fire out of his Mouth . These two were the chief of the Giants . In the War with the Gods they heaped Mountains upon Mountains , and ...
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... Head from thence , but that the Will and high Permiffion of the all - ruling Power , left him at large to his own dark Purposes and Defigns ; that with repeated Crimes he might heap upon himself Damnation , at the fame Time that he ...
... Head from thence , but that the Will and high Permiffion of the all - ruling Power , left him at large to his own dark Purposes and Defigns ; that with repeated Crimes he might heap upon himself Damnation , at the fame Time that he ...
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... Head of an Ox and the Hands of a Man , with feven Chapels . It was made red hot , then the Priests threw the Sacri- fices into its Arms , where they were burnt to Death in a dread- ful Manner . The Carthagini- ans offer'd zoo Children ...
... Head of an Ox and the Hands of a Man , with feven Chapels . It was made red hot , then the Priests threw the Sacri- fices into its Arms , where they were burnt to Death in a dread- ful Manner . The Carthagini- ans offer'd zoo Children ...
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... Heads , and is good for pitching Ships , Cables , and Medicines . Befides Mofes , Strabo , Tacitus Pliny , Diodorus Siculus , and o- ther antient Hiftorians have left March Accounts of it , and mostly from him . See Gen. 19 . ( t ) Peor ...
... Heads , and is good for pitching Ships , Cables , and Medicines . Befides Mofes , Strabo , Tacitus Pliny , Diodorus Siculus , and o- ther antient Hiftorians have left March Accounts of it , and mostly from him . See Gen. 19 . ( t ) Peor ...
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ADAM Adam and Eve Adam's Afia againſt alfo Anſwer antient Beafts becauſe beft call'd called Canaan Caufe cauſe Chaldea City Courſe Creatures Darkneſs DEATH defcended defcribed Defire Eaft Earth Egypt elfe Evil Eyes fafe faid Fall fallen Angel fame Father fecond feek feem'd feems fent feven fhall fhining fhould fince firft firſt fome foon fpoke Fruit ftand ftill ftood fuch fweet Glory Happineſs hath Heaven Hell himſelf holy ibid Jerufalem juft Jupiter King laft laſt lefs Light loft Love Mediterranean Sea Mifery Miles moft moſt Mountain muſt Name Night Number PARADISE PARADISE LOST pleaſant Pleaſure Power Praiſe prefent radife Reaſon reft rifing River SATAN Senfe Serpent ſhall Spirits ſtood tafte Tatars Thammuz thee thefe themſelves thence ther theſe Things thofe thoſe thou Throne Tree vaft Vide Similes Weft whofe Wiſdom worfe World
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Page 133 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 300 - Matter of scorn, not to be given the foe. However, I with thee have fix'd my lot, Certain to undergo like doom; if death Consort with thee, death is to me as life; So forcible within my heart I feel The bond of nature draw me to my own, My own in thee, for what thou art is mine; Our state cannot be sever'd, we are one, One flesh; to lose thee were to lose myself.
Page 236 - And God said. Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear : and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth ; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas : and God saw that it was good.
Page 241 - And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
Page 160 - So saying, on he led his radiant files, Dazzling the moon: these to the bower direct In search of whom they sought: him there they found Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve, Assaying by his devilish art to reach The organs of her fancy, and with them forge Illusions as he list, phantasms and dreams...
Page 141 - And country, whereof here needs no account; But rather to tell how, if art could tell...
Page 235 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 362 - And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man ; and he saw : and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Page 334 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And Power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 317 - ... blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross ; and having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a show of them openly, triumphing over them in it.