rge that from the precipiceHeaven received us falling; and the thunder, with
red lightning and impetuous rage, hath spent his shafts, and ceases nowbellow through the vast and boundless Deep.
utmost Arnon. Nor content with suchneighbourhood, the wisest heartSolomon he led by fraoud to buildtemple right against the temple of Godthat opprobrious hill, and made his grovepleasant valley of Hinnom, Tophet thence black Gehenna called, the type of Hell.
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the Torturer; when, to meet the noisehis almighty engine, he shall hearthunder, and, for lightning, see
Black fire and horror shot with equal ragehis Angels, and his throne itselfwith Tartarean sulphur and strange fire, surprise. Or, could we break our wayforce, and at our heels all Hell should rise blackest insurrection to confound s purest light, yet our great Enemy, incorruptible, would on his throne
if the breath that kindled those grim fires ,, should blow them into sevenfold rage, plunge us in the flames; or from aboveintermitted vengeance arm again red right hand to plague us? What if allstores were opened, and this firmamentHell should spout her cataracts of fire, horrors, threatening hideous fall
the burning lake their baleful streams-Styx, the flood of deadly hate; Acheron of sorrow, black and deep ;, named of lamentation loudon the rueful stream; fierce Phlegeton, waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
in member, joint, or limb; substance might be called that shadow seemed, each seemed either- black it stood as Night , as ten Furies, terrible as Hell, shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
second stroke intend; and such a frown
Each cast at th other as when two black clouds ,
With heaven s artillery fraught, came rattling onthe Caspian, -then stand front to fronta space, till winds the signal blowjoin their dark encounter in mid-air.
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to each kind. So from the root lighter the green stalk, from thence the leavesaery, last the bright consummate flowerodorous breathes: flowers and their fruit, s nourishment, by gradual scale sublimed
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found, they mingled, and, with subtle art, and adusted they reduced
To blackest grain , and into store conveyed: hidden veins digged up (nor hath this earthunlike) of mineral and stone,
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vital virtue infused, and vital warmththe fluid mass; but downward purged black tartareous cold infernal dregs, to life: then founded, then conglobed
forth the tender grass, whose verdure claduniversal face with pleasant green ; herbs of every leaf, that sudden floweredtheir various colours, and made gaybosom, smelling sweet:and, these scarce blown,
is the penalty imposed; beware, govern well thy appetite; lest Sinthee, and her black attendant Death .finished he, and all that he had made
warbling, but all night tun d her soft lays :, on silver lakes and rivers, batheddowny breast; the swan with arched neck, her white wings mantling proudly, rowsstate with oary feet; yet oft they quit
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happy light; when, answer none returned, a green shady bank , profuse of flowers , I sat me down: There gentle sleep
not the heavenly Spirits, and how their lovethey? by looks only? or do they mix, virtual or immediate touch? whom the Angel, with a smile that glowed
Celestial rosy red , Love s proper hue ,. Let it suffice thee that thou knowest
I can now no more; the parting sunthe Earth s green Cape and verdant Isles sets, my signal to depart.strong, live happy, and love! But, first of all ,, whom to love is to obey, and keepgreat command; take heed lest passion sway
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dust: Spite then with spite is best repaid.saying, through each thicket dank or dry, a black mist low-creeping , he held onmidnight-search, where soonest he might find
, on a day roving the field, I chancedgoodly tree far distant to beholdwith fruit of fairest colours mixed, and gold : I neare...
