Paradise Lost. Books I and II.Allyn and Bacon, 1897 - 124 oldal |
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Abyss Adam Adam and Eve Æneid Almighty Archangel Argob arms battle Beelzebub behold Belial bliss burning lake called celestial Chaos Cherub Cherubim created dark Death deeds deep Deity delight Demogorgon dire divine dread Earth empyreal Empyrean epic equal eternal ethereal evil fall Father fear fell Fiend fierce fiery fire flames gates Gehenna glory gods gold happy hate hath Heaven Heavenly Hell highth hill hope horrid host human hung infernal infinite King less light Mammon Masson mighty Milton Moloch Night o'er once Ophiuchus pain Paradise Lost Phlegra poem rage Rebel Angels region reign revenge round Satan Satan return seat seemed Seraphim Serbonian bog serpent soon sound spake spear Spirits starry stars stood story strength sublime Thammuz thee thence things Thither thou thoughts throne thunder towers Universe vast whence winds wings words World worse wrath
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84. oldal - In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none ; nor was his service hard. What could be less than to afford him praise, The easiest recompense, and pay him thanks ? How due ! yet all his good...
34. oldal - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
63. oldal - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
36. oldal - To speak; whereat their doubled ranks they bend From wing to wing, and half enclose him round With all his peers: attention held them mute. Thrice he assayed, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as Angels weep, burst forth...
62. oldal - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice ; A gulf profound as that Serbonian bog Betwixt Damiata and mount Casius old, Where armies whole have sunk : the parching air Burns frore, and cold performs the effect of fire.
59. oldal - Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational, though under hope Of heavenly grace ; and, God proclaiming peace, Yet live in hatred, enmity, and strife, Among themselves, and levy cruel wars, Wasting the earth, each other to destroy : As if (which might induce us to accord) Man had not hellish foes enow besides, That day and night for his destruction wait.
68. oldal - Afresh, with conscious terrors vex me round, That rest or intermission none I find. Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe ; who sets them on.
41. oldal - Behold a wonder ! They but now who seemed In bigness to surpass Earth's giant sons, Now less than smallest dwarfs, in narrow room Throng numberless...
49. oldal - Devoid of sense and motion? And who knows, Let this be good, whether our angry foe Can give it, or will ever? how he can, Is doubtful; that he never will, is sure. Will he, so wise, let loose at once his ire, Belike through impotence, or unaware, To give his enemies their wish, and end Them in his anger, whom his anger saves To punish endless? Wherefore cease we then?
39. oldal - As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet...