The Epic of the Fall of Man: A Comparative Study of Caedmon, Dante and MiltonG. P. Putnam's sons, 1896 - 449 pages |
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Abyss Adam Almighty Angel of Presumption Anglo Anglo-Saxon literature Anglo-Saxon poet Archangel aught Beatific Vision beauteous Beda Beda's beneath Beowulf bliss bright Cædmon celestial Chaos Circle command concave creation Dante Dante's dark deeds deep deepest Deity didst dire Divina Commedia divine doom dread dwell e'en Earth Elizabeth Elstob Empyrean England English erelong eternal evil eyes Fall fell Fiend fierce fire flames Fréa fruit gates gleeman God's Grendel hand hast hate hath heart Heaven Heavenly Hell Hell's holy Hróthgár Inferno King length light literature Lord Lucifer manuscript Mead-hall messenger mighty Milton Milton's epic mind monastery narrative Night o'er opening Paradise Lost pass passage poem poetic pride punishment realm rebel Angels ruin Satan Saxon seat Serpent shalt sorrow soul sovereign spake Spheres spirits Starry Universe stood tells thane thee thou thought throne tion Tree of Death verse warriors words World
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Page 260 - They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand ; the gate With dreadful faces thronged, and fiery arms.
Page 298 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good : by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Page 267 - Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LOHD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Page 156 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity...
Page 156 - And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
Page 268 - And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
Page 183 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than Archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured...
Page 292 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Page 293 - Archangel: but his face Deep scars of thunder had intrenched, and care Sat on his faded cheek, but under brows Of dauntless courage, and considerate* pride Waiting revenge. Cruel his eye, but cast Signs of remorse and passion to behold The fellows of his crime, the followers rather (Far other once beheld in bliss), condemned For ever now to have their lot in pain...
Page 156 - Let there be light, said God ; And forthwith light Ethereal, first of things, quintessence pure, Sprung from the deep...