The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 2Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... voice Mild , as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes , Her hand soft touching , whisper'd thus : Awake , 5 only ] For alone . ' Spens . F. Q. v . xi . 30 . ' As if the only sound thereof she fear'd . ' 6 fuming ] v . Lucretii . lib . vi ...
... voice Mild , as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes , Her hand soft touching , whisper'd thus : Awake , 5 only ] For alone . ' Spens . F. Q. v . xi . 30 . ' As if the only sound thereof she fear'd . ' 6 fuming ] v . Lucretii . lib . vi ...
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... voice ; I thought it thine : it said , Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time , The cool , the silent , save where silence yields To the night - warbling bird , that now awake Tunes sweetest his love - labour'd song ; now ...
... voice ; I thought it thine : it said , Why sleep'st thou Eve ? now is the pleasant time , The cool , the silent , save where silence yields To the night - warbling bird , that now awake Tunes sweetest his love - labour'd song ; now ...
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... voices , all ye living souls , ye birds , That singing up to heaven - gate ascend , Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise ; Ye that in waters glide , and ye that walk The earth , and stately tread , or lowly creep ; Witness if ...
... voices , all ye living souls , ye birds , That singing up to heaven - gate ascend , Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise ; Ye that in waters glide , and ye that walk The earth , and stately tread , or lowly creep ; Witness if ...
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... the suggested cause , and casts between Ambiguous words and jealousies , to sound Or taint integrity : but all obey'd The wonted signal , and superior voice 705 Of their BOOK V. 29 Of yesterday so late hath past the lips ...
... the suggested cause , and casts between Ambiguous words and jealousies , to sound Or taint integrity : but all obey'd The wonted signal , and superior voice 705 Of their BOOK V. 29 Of yesterday so late hath past the lips ...
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John Milton. The wonted signal , and superior voice 705 Of their great potentate ; for great indeed His name , and high was his degree in heaven ; His count'nance , as the morning star that guides The starry flock , allur'd them , and ...
John Milton. The wonted signal , and superior voice 705 Of their great potentate ; for great indeed His name , and high was his degree in heaven ; His count'nance , as the morning star that guides The starry flock , allur'd them , and ...
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Adam Adamus Exsul angels answer'd appear'd arms aught battel beast behold Bentl Bentley bliss bright call'd cherubim cloud dark days of heaven death delight divine Du Bartas Dunster dwell Dyce earth eternal evil eyes fair Father fear Fenton fruit glory ground hand happy hast hath heard heart heaven heavenly hell highth hill honour join'd king lest light live Lord mankind may'st Messiah Milton's own edition morn Newton nigh night Ovid paradise PARADISE LOST PARADISE REGAINED pass'd Proserpina rais'd Raphael reign reply'd return'd sapience Satan Saviour seat seem'd serpent Shakesp shalt sight Son of God soon spake Spens spirits stars stood sweet taste tempter thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself Todd tree turn'd vex'd Virg virtue voice wand'ring whence wings
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Page 37 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 6 - Reason as chief. Among these Fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, aery shapes, Which Reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell when Nature rests.
Page 173 - But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade...
Page 21 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours ; Differing but in degree, of kind the same.
Page 280 - So shall the World go on, To good malignant, to bad men benign, Under her own weight groaning, till the day Appear of respiration to the just And vengeance to the wicked...
Page 281 - Henceforth, I learn that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God, to walk As in his presence, ever to observe His providence, and on him sole depend...
Page 358 - Think not but that I know these things; or, think I know them not, not therefore am I short Of knowing what I ought. He who receives Light from above, from the Fountain of Light, No other doctrine needs, though granted true; 290 But these are false, or little else but dreams, Conjectures, fancies, built on nothing firm.
Page 129 - Nor skill'd nor studious, higher argument Remains ; sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years, damp my intended wing 45 Depress'd ; and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers, who brings it nightly to my ear.
Page 8 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty, thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair ; thyself how wondrous then! Unspeakable, who sitt'st above these heavens, ™ To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 214 - And straight conjunction with this sex : for either He never shall find out fit mate, but such As some misfortune brings him, or mistake ; Or whom he wishes most shall seldom gain Through her perverseness, but shall see her...