Vondels Lucifer en Miltons Verloren paradijs

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M. Nijhoff, 1895 - 128 pàgines

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Pàgina 30 - Two of far nobler shape erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native Honour clad In naked Majesty seemed Lords of all, And worthy seemed, for in their looks Divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, Sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed; Whence true authority in men; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seemed;* For contemplation he and valour formed, For softness she and sweet attractive Grace...
Pàgina 46 - To ask or search, I blame thee not; for heaven Is as the book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous works...
Pàgina 57 - That day, as other solemn days, they spent In song and dance about the sacred hill ; Mystical dance, which yonder starry sphere Of planets, and of fix'd, in all her wheels Resembles nearest, mazes intricate, Eccentric, intervolved, yet regular Then most, when most irregular they seem ; And in their motions harmony divine So smooths her charming tones, that God's own ear Listens delighted.
Pàgina 42 - Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor — one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time.
Pàgina 10 - Down thither prone in flight He speeds, and through the vast ethereal sky Sails between worlds and worlds, with steady wing...
Pàgina 42 - 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 110 Extort from me.
Pàgina 97 - Lay vanquished, rolling in the fiery gulf Confounded though immortal: but his doom Reserved him to more wrath; for now the thought Both of lost happiness and lasting pain Torments him; round he throws his baleful eyes That witnessed huge affliction and dismay Mixed with obdurate pride and steadfast hate: At once as far as angels...
Pàgina 31 - There wanted yet the master-work, the end Of all yet done; a creature, who, not prone • And brute as other creatures, but endued With sanctity of reason, might erect His stature, and upright with front serene Govern the rest, self-knowing; and from thence Magnanimous to correspond with Heaven...
Pàgina 35 - Love hath abounded more than glory abounds ; Therefore thy humiliation shall exalt With Thee thy manhood also to this throne...
Pàgina 23 - Upon the rapid current, which through veins Of porous Earth with kindly thirst up drawn, Rose a fresh Fountain, and with many a rill Waterd the Garden...

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