Paradise Lost: A PoemBaudry's European Library, 1833 - 351 pàgines |
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Pàgina xii
... nights , but not a verse could he make ; and on a sudden his poetical faculty would rush upon him with irresistible ... night and morning , seasons when the mind is free from the ordinary occupations of life ; and that he poured out ...
... nights , but not a verse could he make ; and on a sudden his poetical faculty would rush upon him with irresistible ... night and morning , seasons when the mind is free from the ordinary occupations of life ; and that he poured out ...
Pàgina xx
... night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . : « The pensive man walks unseen to muse at midnight ; and hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him home , he sits in a room lighted only by glowing embers , or ...
... night with the fanciful narratives of superstitious ignorance . : « The pensive man walks unseen to muse at midnight ; and hears the sullen curfew . If the weather drives him home , he sits in a room lighted only by glowing embers , or ...
Pàgina xxix
... night . Milton , when he has expa- triated on the sky , may be allowed sometimes to revisit earth ; for what other author ever soared so high , or sus- tained his flight so long ? « < Such , » concludes the critic , « are the defects of ...
... night . Milton , when he has expa- triated on the sky , may be allowed sometimes to revisit earth ; for what other author ever soared so high , or sus- tained his flight so long ? « < Such , » concludes the critic , « are the defects of ...
Pàgina 5
... night To mortal men , he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd , rolling in the fiery gulf , Confounded , though immortal : but his doom Reserv'd him to more wrath ; for now the thought , Both of lost happiness and lasting pain , Torments ...
... night To mortal men , he with his horrid crew Lay vanquish'd , rolling in the fiery gulf , Confounded , though immortal : but his doom Reserv'd him to more wrath ; for now the thought , Both of lost happiness and lasting pain , Torments ...
Pàgina 10
... night - founder'd skiff Deeming some island , oft , as seamen tell , With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee , while night Invests the sea , and wished morn delays : So stretch'd out huge in length the Arch ...
... night - founder'd skiff Deeming some island , oft , as seamen tell , With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee , while night Invests the sea , and wished morn delays : So stretch'd out huge in length the Arch ...
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Pàgina 13 - 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...
Pàgina 66 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Pàgina 5 - Hurled headlong flaming from th' ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy th
Pàgina 4 - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly 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 heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Pàgina 11 - Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell Receive thy new possessor; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Pàgina 109 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Pàgina 127 - But know that, in the soul, Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief: among these, Fancy next Her office holds; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell, when Nature rests.
Pàgina 110 - With thee conversing I forget all time ; All seasons and their change, all please alike. 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
Pàgina 7 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost — the unconquerable will. And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield ; And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might no Extort from me.
Pàgina 92 - 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 I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...