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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 45m
In Nature and all things; which these soft fires Not only enlighten, but with kindly heat Of various influence foment and warm, Temper or nourish, or in part shed down Their stellar virtue on all kinds that grow On earth, made hereby apter to receive IV, 667-672
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 2h
Must have been lost, adjudg'd to Death and Hell By doom severe, had not the Son of God, In whom the fulness dwells of love divine, His dearest mediation thus renew'd. Father, thy word is past, Man shall find grace; III, 224-228
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 4h
Jordan, true limit eastward; but his sons Shall dwell to Senir, that long ridge of hills. This ponder, that all nations of the earth Shall in his seed be blessed: By that seed Is meant thy great Deliverer, who shall bruise XII, 145-149
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 6h
Nor glistering, may of solid good contain More plenty than the sun that barren shines; Whose virtue on itself works no effect, But in the fruitful Earth; there first received, His beams, unactive else, their vigour find. VIII, 93-97
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 8h
So wonderously was set his station bright. There lands the Fiend, a spot like which perhaps Astronomer in the sun's lucent orb Through his glazed optick tube yet never saw. The place he found beyond expression bright, III, 588-592
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 10h
Easing their flight; so steers the prudent crane Her annual voyage, borne on winds; the air Floats as they pass, fanned with unnumbered plumes: From branch to branch the smaller birds with song Solaced the woods, and spread their painted wings VII, 430-434
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 12h
Or, in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment; or under rocks their food In jointed armour watch: on smooth the seal And bended dolphins play: part huge of bulk Wallowing unwieldy, enormous in their gait, VII, 407-411
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 14h
Eternity, whose end no eye can reach. Greatly-instructed I shall hence depart; Greatly in peace of thought; and have my fill Of knowledge, what this vessel can contain; Beyond which was my folly to aspire. Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, XII, 556-561
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 16h
And his next son, for wealth and wisdom famed, The clouded ark of God, till then in tents Wandering, shall in a glorious temple enshrine. Such follow him, as shall be registered Part good, part bad; of bad the longer scroll; XII, 332-336
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 18h
New laws to be observed; for I descry, From yonder blazing cloud that veils the hill, One of the heavenly host; and, by his gait, None of the meanest; some great Potentate Or of the Thrones above; such majesty Invests him coming! yet not terrible, XI, 228-233
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 20h
Into their vacant room, and thence diffuse His good to worlds and ages infinite. So sang the Hierarchies: Mean while the Son On his great expedition now appeared, Girt with Omnipotence, with radiance crowned Of Majesty Divine; sapience and love VII, 190-195
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 22h
Ere thou from hence depart; know, I am sent To show thee what shall come in future days To thee, and to thy offspring: good with bad Expect to hear; supernal grace contending With sinfulness of men; thereby to learn XI, 356-360
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The tempted with dishonour foul; supposed Not incorruptible of faith, not proof Against temptation: Thou thyself with scorn And anger wouldst resent the offered wrong, Though ineffectual found: misdeem not then, If such affront I labour to avert IX, 297-302
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
With shivered armour strown, and on a heap Chariot and charioteer lay overturned, And fiery-foaming steeds; what stood, recoiled O'er-wearied, through the faint Satanick host Defensive scarce, or with pale fear surprised, VI, 389-393
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep: Which would but lead me to a worse relapse And heavier fall: so should I purchase dear Short intermission bought with double smart. This knows my Punisher; therefore as far IV, 99-103
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Now Heaven in all her glory shone, and rolled Her motions, as the great first Mover's hand First wheeled their course: Earth in her rich attire Consummate lovely smiled; air, water, earth, By fowl, fish, beast, was flown, was swum, was walked, VII, 499-503
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Of Baalim and Ashtaroth--those male, These feminine. For Spirits, when they please, Can either sex assume, or both; so soft And uncompounded is their essence pure, Not tried or manacled with joint or limb, Nor founded on the brittle strength of bones, I, 422-427
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Discovered soon the place of her retire. O unexpected stroke, worse than of Death! Must I thus leave thee Paradise? thus leave Thee, native soil! these happy walks and shades, Fit haunt of Gods? where I had hope to spend, XI, 267-271
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chiefly by what thy own last reasoning words Touched only; that our trial, when least sought, May find us both perhaps far less prepared, The willinger I go, nor much expect A foe so proud will first the weaker seek; IX, 379-383
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
With gems and golden lustre rich emblazed, Seraphic arms and trophies; all the while Sonorous metal blowing martial sounds: At which the universal host up-sent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. I, 538-543
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Haste thee, and from the Paradise of God Without remorse drive out the sinful pair; From hallowed ground the unholy; and denounce To them, and to their progeny, from thence Perpetual banishment. Yet, lest they faint XI, 104-108
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Therefore to me their doom he hath assigned; That they may have their wish, to try with me In battle which the stronger proves; they all, Or I alone against them; since by strength They measure all, of other excellence VI, 817-821
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
As that more willingly thou couldst not seem At Heaven's high feasts to have fed: yet what compare To whom the winged Hierarch replied. O Adam, One Almighty is, from whom All things proceed, and up to him return, If not depraved from good, created all V, 466-471
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
To worst abuse, or to their meanest use. Beneath him with new wonder now he views, To all delight of human sense exposed, In narrow room, Nature's whole wealth, yea more, A Heaven on Earth: For blissful Paradise IV, 204-208
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And such appeared in hue as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus, or the shattered side Of thundering Etna, whose combustible And fuelled entrails, thence conceiving fire, Sublimed with mineral fury, aid the winds, I, 230-235
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Now other, as their shape served best his end Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what of their state he more might learn, By word or action marked. About them round A lion now he stalks with fiery glare; IV, 398-402
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
And he the future evil shall no less In apprehension than in substance feel, Grievous to bear: but that care now is past, Man is not whom to warn: those few escaped Famine and anguish will at last consume, Wandering that watery desart: I had hope, XI, 774-779
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Cannot but by annihilating die; Nor in their liquid texture mortal wound Receive, no more than can the fluid air: All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense; and, as they please, VI, 347-351
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The glorious train ascending: He through Heaven, That opened wide her blazing portals, led To God's eternal house direct the way; A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear, VII, 574-578
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Whereat he inly raged, and, as they talked, Smote him into the midriff with a stone That beat out life; he fell; and, deadly pale, Groaned out his soul with gushing blood effused. Much at that sight was Adam in his heart XI, 444-448
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
He lights, and to his proper shape returns A Seraph winged: Six wings he wore, to shade His lineaments divine; the pair that clad Each shoulder broad, came mantling o'er his breast With regal ornament; the middle pair V, 276-280
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Let her with thee partake what thou hast heard; Chiefly what may concern her faith to know, The great deliverance by her seed to come (For by the Woman's seed) on all mankind: That ye may live, which will be many days, XII, 598-602
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A nation from one faithful man to spring: Him on this side Euphrates yet residing, Bred up in idol-worship: O, that men (Canst thou believe?) should be so stupid grown, While yet the patriarch lived, who 'scaped the flood, XII, 113-117
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Than self-esteem, grounded on just and right Well managed; of that skill the more thou knowest, The more she will acknowledge thee her head, And to realities yield all her shows: Made so adorn for thy delight the more, VIII, 572-576
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Of his fierce chariot rolled, as with the sound Of torrent floods, or of a numerous host. He on his impious foes right onward drove, Gloomy as night; under his burning wheels The stedfast empyrean shook throughout, VI, 829-833
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Then who created thee lamenting learn, When who can uncreate thee thou shalt know. So spake the Seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, V, 894-899
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
To other speedy aid might lend at need: Whether his first design be to withdraw Our fealty from God, or to disturb Conjugal love, than which perhaps no bliss Enjoyed by us excites his envy more; Or this, or worse, leave not the faithful side IX, 260-265
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
By doom of battle, and complain that Fate Free Virtue should enthrall to Force or Chance. Their song was partial; but the harmony (What could it less when Spirits immortal sing?) Suspended Hell, and took with ravishment II, 550-554
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tending to some relief of our extremes, Or end; though sharp and sad, yet tolerable, As in our evils, and of easier choice. If care of our descent perplex us most, Which must be born to certain woe, devoured By Death at last; and miserable it is X, 976-981
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Interpreted,) which not long after, he Affecting all equality with God, In imitation of that mount whereon Messiah was declared in sight of Heaven, The Mountain of the Congregation called; For thither he assembled all his train, V, 762-767
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Show to the sun their waved coats dropt with gold; Or, in their pearly shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment; or under rocks their food In jointed armour watch: on smooth the seal And bended dolphins play: part huge of bulk VII, 406-410
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Save what sin hath impaired; which yet hath wrought Insensibly, for I suspend their doom; Whence in perpetual fight they needs must last Endless, and no solution will be found: War wearied hath performed what war can do, VI, 691-695
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
All hope excluded thus, behold, instead Of us out-cast, exil'd, his new delight, Mankind created, and for him this world. So farewell, hope; and with hope farewell, fear; Farewell, remorse! all good to me is lost; IV, 105-109
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Of future; in small room large heart enclosed; Pattern of just equality perhaps Hereafter, joined in her popular tribes Of commonalty: Swarming next appeared The female bee, that feeds her husband drone Deliciously, and builds her waxen cells VII, 486-491
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thy sin and place of doom obscure and foul. But come, for thou, be sure, shalt give account To him who sent us, whose charge is to keep This place inviolable, and these from harm. So spake the Cherub; and his grave rebuke, IV, 840-844
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
And thou moon in the vale of Aialon, Till Israel overcome!" so call the third From Abraham, son of Isaac; and from him His whole descent, who thus shall Canaan win. Here Adam interposed. O sent from Heaven, Enlightener of my darkness, gracious things XII, 266-271
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A triple mounted row of pillars laid On wheels (for like to pillars most they seemed, Or hollowed bodies made of oak or fir, With branches lopt, in wood or mountain felled,) Brass, iron, stony mould, had not their mouths VI, 572-576
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Grinned horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be filled, and blessed his maw Destined to that good hour. No less rejoiced His mother bad, and thus bespake her sire:-- "The key of this infernal Pit, by due II, 846-850
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
So sang the Hierarchies: Mean while the Son On his great expedition now appeared, Girt with Omnipotence, with radiance crowned Of Majesty Divine; sapience and love Immense, and all his Father in him shone. About his chariot numberless were poured VII, 192-197
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Paradise Lost @paradise-lost.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally; and, to consummate all, Greatness of mind and Nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelick placed. VIII, 554-559
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