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Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 690) [Wealth] As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 708) [Music] Anon, out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 710) [Architecture] Nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculpture graven. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 715) [Architecture] The hasty multitude Admiring enter'd, and the work some praise, And some the architect: his hand was known In heaven by many a tower'd structure high, Where scepter'd angels held their residence, And sat as princes. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 730) [Architecture : Heaven] From morn To moon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 742) [Devil] Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 77) [Fire] . . . Or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the Moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the Earth Wheels her pale course; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds. - Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 781) [Fairies] So he with difficulty and labor hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labor be. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 1,021) [Difficulties] Hanging in a golden chain This pendent world, in bigness as a star Of smallest magnitude close by the moon. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 1,051) [World] Which, if not victory, is yet revenge. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 105) [Revenge] He seemed For dignity compos'd and high exploit: But all was false and hollow. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 110) [Deceit : Falsity] But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 112) [Reason] Though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 112) [Speech] Thus repuls'd, our final hope Is flat despair. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 141) [Despair] For who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallow'd up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated night, Devoid of sense and motion? - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 146) [Immortality] His red right hand. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 174) [Hand] Unrespited, unpitied, unreprieved. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 185) [Character : Punishment] The never-ending flight Of future days. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 221) [Future] Fate shall yield To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 232) [Chaos] Our torments also may in length of time Become our elements. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 274) [Punishment] . . . With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd A pillar of state; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care; And princely counsel in his face yet shone Majestic, though in ruin; sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies; his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 300) [Dignity] Surer to prosper than prosperity could have assur'd us. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 39) [Prosperity] The palpable obscure. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 406) [Obscurity] Long is the way And hard, that out of hell leads up to light. - Paradise Lost (bk. II, l. 432) [Hell : Reformation] Displaying page 18 of 30 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 [18] 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
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