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Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light. - Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 2) [Morning] Arms on armour clashing bray'd Horrible discord, and the madding wheels Of brazen chariots ray'd; dire was the noise Of conflict. - Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 209) [War] Nor think thou with wind Of aery threats to awe whom yet with deeds Thou canst not. - Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 282) [Deeds] Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight. - Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 29) [Christianity : Service] For spirits that live throughout Vital in every part, not as frail man, In entrails, heart or head, liver or reins, Cannot but by annihilating die. - Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 345) [Immortality] All heart they live, all head, all eye, all ear, All intellect, all sense, and as they please They limb themselves, and colour, shape, or size, Assume, as likes them best, condense or rare. - Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 350) [Apparitions] Subdue By force, who reason for their law refuse, Right reason for their law. - Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 40) [Reason] The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. - Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 438) [Swans] Under spread ensigns moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion. - Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 533) [Flags] In naked beauty more adorned More lovely than Pandora. - Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 713) [Apparel] Far off his coming alone. - Paradise Lost (bk. VI, l. 768) [Anticipation] Though to recount almighty works What words of tongue or seraph can suffice, Or heart of man suffice to comprehend? - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 112) [Creation] Heaven open'd wide Her ever-during gates, harmonious sound On golden hinges moving. - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 205) [Heaven] Then stayed the fervid wheels, and in his hand He took the golden compasses, prepared In God's eternal store, to circumscribe This universe and all created things: One foot he centred, and the other turned Round through the vast profundity obscure And said, "Thus far extend, thus far thy bounds, This be thy just circumference, O world." - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 224) [World] And from her native east, To journey through the aery gloom began, Spher'd in a radiant cloud, for yet the sun Was not. - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 245) [Light] And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works. - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 258) [Praise] And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night, altern. - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 346) [Astronomy] And made the stars, And set them in the firmament of heav'n, T' illuminate the earth, and rule the day In their vicissitude, and rule the night. - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 348) [Stars] Hither, as to their fountain, other stars Repairing in their golden urns draw light, And hence the morning planet gilds her horns. - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 364) [Stars] They rejoice Each with their kind, lion with lioness, So fitly them in pairs thou hast combined. - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 392) [Animals : Lions] Indu'd With sanctity of reason. - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 507) [Reason] Govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant Death. - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 546) [Appetite] The planets in their station list'ning stood. - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 563) [Sky] Open, ye heavens, your living doors; let in The great Creator from his work return'd Magnificient, his six days' work, a world! - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 566) [Creation] For God will deign To visit oft the dwellings of just men Delighted, and with frequent intercourse Thither will send his winged messengers On errants of supernal grace. - Paradise Lost (bk. VII, l. 569) [Angels] Displaying page 25 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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