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"Their rising all at once was as the sound Of thunder heard remote."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 476.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 476.
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"The low'ring element Scowls o'er the darken'd landscape."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 490.
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"Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 496.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 496.
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"In discourse more sweet; For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense. Others apart sat on a hill retir'd, In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free-will, foreknowledge absolute; And found no end, in wand'ring mazes lost."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 555.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 555.
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"Vain wisdom all and false philosophy."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 565.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 565.
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"Arm th' obdur'd breast With stubborn patience as with triple steel."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 568.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 568.
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"O'er many a frozen, many a fiery Alp, Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 620.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 620.
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"Gorgons and Hydras and Chimæras dire."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 628.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 628.
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"The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either,--black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, And shook a dreadful dart; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 666.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 666.
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"Whence and what art thou, execrable shape?"
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 681.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 681.
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"Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 699.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 699.
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"So spake the grisly Terror."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 704.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 704.
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"Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 707.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 707.
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"Their fatal hands No second stroke intend."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 712.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 712.
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"Hell Grew darker at their frown."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 719.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 719.
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"I fled, and cry'd out, DEATH! Hell trembled at the hideous name, and sigh'd From all her caves, and back resounded, DEATH!"
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 787.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 787.
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"Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 803.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 803.
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"Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 845.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 845.
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"On a sudden open fly, With impetuous recoil and jarring sound, Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 879.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 879.
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"Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand; For hot, cold, moist, and dry, four champions fierce, Strive here for mast'ry."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 894.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 894.
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"Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 910.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 910.
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"To compare Great things with small."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 921.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 921.
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"O'er bog or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 948.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 948.
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"With ruin upon ruin, rout on rout, Confusion worse confounded."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 995.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 995.
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"So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour he."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1021.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1021.
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"And fast by, hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude, close by the moon."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1051.
Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 1051.
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"Hail holy light! offspring of heav'n first-born."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 1.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 1.
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"The rising world of waters dark and deep."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 11.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 11.
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"Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 37.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 37.
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"Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 40.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 40.
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"See golden days, fruitful of golden deeds, With joy and love triumphing."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 337.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 337.
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"Dark with excessive bright."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 380.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 380.
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"Embryos and idiots, eremites and friars, White, black, and gray, with all their trumpery."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 474.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 474.
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"Since call'd The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 495.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 495.
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"And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 686.
Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 686.
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"The hell within him."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 20.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 20.
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"Now conscience wakes despair That slumber'd,--wakes the bitter memory Of what he was, what is, and what must be Worse."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 23.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 23.
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"At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 34.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 34.
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"A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once Indebted and discharg'd."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 55.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 55.
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"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 threat'ning to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 73.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 73.
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"Such joy ambition finds."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 92.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 92.
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"Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 96.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 96.
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"So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse; all good to me is lost. Evil, be thou my good."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 108.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 108.
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"That practis'd falsehood under saintly shew, Deep malice to conceal, couch'd with revenge."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 122.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 122.
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"Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 162.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 162.
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"And on the Tree of Life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 194.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 194.
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"A heaven on earth."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 208.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 208.
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"Flowers worthy of paradise."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 241.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 241.
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"Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 256.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 256.
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"Proserpine gathering flowers, Herself a fairer flower."
John Milton / Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 269.
Paradise Lost. Book iv. Line 269.
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