Blake and MiltonY. Cadoret, 1920 - 74 pages |
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Page 27 - Without Contraries is no progression. Attraction and Repulsion, Reason and Energy, Love and Hate, are necessary to Human existence.
Page 51 - Began to rise, high passions, anger, hate, Mistrust, suspicion, discord ; and shook sore Their inward state of mind, calm region once And full of peace, now tost and turbulent : For Understanding ruled not, and the Will Heard not her lore ; both in subjection now To sensual Appetite, who from beneath Usurping over sovran Reason claim'd Superior sway.
Page 18 - Whence and what art thou, execrable shape, That darest though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates? Through them I mean to pass, That be assured, without leave asked of thee. Retire; or taste thy folly, and learn by proof, Hell-born, not to contend with spirits of Heaven.
Page 7 - Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare.
Page 67 - Boundless the deep, because I am who fill Infinitude, nor vacuous the space. Though I uncircumscribed myself retire, And put not forth my goodness, which is free To act or not, Necessity and Chance Approach not me, and what I will is Fate.
Page 37 - Abstinence sows sand all over The ruddy limbs and flaming hair; But desire gratified Plants fruits of life and beauty there.
Page 49 - ... face I meet Marks of weakness, marks of woe. In every cry of every Man, In every Infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. How the Chimney-sweeper's cry Every black'ning Church appalls; And the hapless Soldier's sigh Runs in blood down Palace walls. But most thro...
Page 54 - O'er other creatures : yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best All higher knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like folly shows...
Page 26 - Since thy original lapse, true liberty Is lost, which always with right reason dwells Twinn'd, and from her hath no dividual being : Reason in man obscur'd, or not obey'd, Immediately inordinate desires, And upstart passions, catch the government From reason ; and to servitude reduce Man, till then free.
Page 66 - Had risen or heaved his head, but that the will And high permission of all-ruling Heaven Left him at large to his own dark designs...