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... heart . " -JOHNSON . " It is certain that Milton is the most wonderfully sublime of any poet in any language ; Homer , Lucre- tius , and Tasso not excepted . " . - HUME . - " Was there ever any thing so delightful as the music of ...
... heart . " -JOHNSON . " It is certain that Milton is the most wonderfully sublime of any poet in any language ; Homer , Lucre- tius , and Tasso not excepted . " . - HUME . - " Was there ever any thing so delightful as the music of ...
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... heart and holy life of Mrs. Browning could do that . Milton succeeded vastly better , yet in strict accordance with his own nature . He was a man of vast mental power . He writes this poem after being a kind of secretary of state of the ...
... heart and holy life of Mrs. Browning could do that . Milton succeeded vastly better , yet in strict accordance with his own nature . He was a man of vast mental power . He writes this poem after being a kind of secretary of state of the ...
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... heart pic- tures made by combining the light of the throne and the darkness of the pit into forms and faces of terrific hate and ineffable love . Ruskin bears witness that the melody and strength of his writings were caught from the ...
... heart pic- tures made by combining the light of the throne and the darkness of the pit into forms and faces of terrific hate and ineffable love . Ruskin bears witness that the melody and strength of his writings were caught from the ...
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... heart and pure , Instruct me , for Thou know'st , Thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings outspread , Dove - like , satst brooding on the vast abyss , And made it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine ; what is low ...
... heart and pure , Instruct me , for Thou know'st , Thou from the first Wast present , and with mighty wings outspread , Dove - like , satst brooding on the vast abyss , And made it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine ; what is low ...
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... heart of Hell to work in fire , Or do his errands in the gloomy deep ; What can it then avail , though yet we feel Strength undiminished , or eternal being To undergo eternal punishment ? " Whereto with speedy words the Archfiend ...
... heart of Hell to work in fire , Or do his errands in the gloomy deep ; What can it then avail , though yet we feel Strength undiminished , or eternal being To undergo eternal punishment ? " Whereto with speedy words the Archfiend ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Abdiel Adam Almighty angels archangel Arethuse arms aught beast behold bliss bower bright burning lake celestial Chaos cherub cherubim cloud created creatures dark death deep delight divine doom dreadful dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair Fair angel faith Father fear fell fiend fierce fire flaming flowers fruit gates glory gods golden grace hand happy hast hath heard Heaven heavenly Hell hill honor host infernal Ithuriel King know'st light live Lycidas Messiah morn night o'er pain Paradise Paradise Lost peace praise reign replied rose round sapience Satan Satan return seat seemed seraph seraphim serpent shade shalt sight sleep soon spake spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne throne Of Chaos thunder thyself tree Uriel voice wave whence winds wings wonder Zephon
Passagens conhecidas
Página 294 - And in thy right hand lead with thee The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty; And if I give thee honor due, Mirth, admit me of thy crew, To live with her, and live with thee, In unreproved pleasures free ; To hear the lark begin his flight, And, singing, startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise...
Página 228 - 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.
Página 307 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, And that one Talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest He returning chide, "Doth God exact day-labour, light denied?
Página 279 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres ! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so ; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time ; And let the bass of heaven's deep organ blow And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Página 90 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell ; myself am hell ; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Página 306 - AVENGE, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold; Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old, When all our fathers...
Página 304 - Softly on my eyelids laid. And as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some spirit to mortals good, Or the unseen genius of the wood.
Página 294 - There on beds of violets blue And fresh-blown roses washed in dew, Filled her with thee, a daughter fair, So buxom, blithe, and debonair. Haste thee nymph, and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek And love to live in dimple sleek; 30 Sport that wrinkled care derides, And laughter holding both his sides.
Página 288 - Nesera's hair ? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days : But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.