The Poetical Works of John Milton: With a Memoir, and Critical Remarks on His Genius and Writings, Volume 1S. Andrus & Son, 1848 |
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... fruits of that lucid interval of retire- ment . Whatever may be surmised in disparagement of his temper , either in domestic or public life , Milton must have been a dutiful and amiable son , to have continued with his parents through ...
... fruits of that lucid interval of retire- ment . Whatever may be surmised in disparagement of his temper , either in domestic or public life , Milton must have been a dutiful and amiable son , to have continued with his parents through ...
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... fruits of which gen- erations unborn should be feasted . Paradise Lost was published in 1667 ; Paradise Re- gained ... fruit was maturing , he stood as thick of foliage , and as unpicturesque in appearance , as any orchard - tree in ...
... fruits of which gen- erations unborn should be feasted . Paradise Lost was published in 1667 ; Paradise Re- gained ... fruit was maturing , he stood as thick of foliage , and as unpicturesque in appearance , as any orchard - tree in ...
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... fruit , that their branches are bent down to the ground , and sometimes even trail along it ; while the symmetry and grace of his finest periods are disfigured by lumbering parentheses . In many passages of his polemics , there is an ...
... fruit , that their branches are bent down to the ground , and sometimes even trail along it ; while the symmetry and grace of his finest periods are disfigured by lumbering parentheses . In many passages of his polemics , there is an ...
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... fruits of the same hot - house culture , are still reprinted in his collected pieces , but command little attention , except as curiosities of literature . Nor are they much better known , even in the English version , from the kindred ...
... fruits of the same hot - house culture , are still reprinted in his collected pieces , but command little attention , except as curiosities of literature . Nor are they much better known , even in the English version , from the kindred ...
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... fruit Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste Brought death into the world , and all our woe , With loss of Eden , till one greater Man Restore us , and regain the blissful seat , Sing , heavenly muse , that on the secret top Of ...
... fruit Of that forbidden tree , whose mortal taste Brought death into the world , and all our woe , With loss of Eden , till one greater Man Restore us , and regain the blissful seat , Sing , heavenly muse , that on the secret top Of ...
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Page xviii - stated, it was not till Milton had fought his way through middle life, in state controversies—when old, and blind, and poor, his genius, at length (to accommodate a magnificent figure of his own,) " mewing," like "an eagle, her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam
Page 225 - And touch'd their golden harps, and hymning praised God and his works: Creator him they sung, Both when first evening was, and when first morn. "Again, God said, 'Let there be firmament Amid the waters, and let it divide The waters from the waters ;' and God made The firmament, expanse of liquid pure, Transparent, elemental air, diffused
Page 65 - reason'd high Of providence, fore-knowledge, will, and fate ; Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost. Of good and evil much they argued then : Of happiness and final misery, Passion and apathy, and glory and shame, Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy : Yet with a pleasing sorcery, could charm
Page 118 - Mozambique, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell, old Ocean smiles. So entertain'd those odorous sweets the fiend, Who came their bane : though with them better pleased Than
Page 33 - With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury and outrage : and when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page xxxii - poem,) as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine ; like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amourist, or the trencher-fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her
Page xxxvi - (For eloquence the soul, song charms the sense,) Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate and reason'd high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fix'd fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute. And found no end, in wandering mazes lost.
Page xxxii - or the trencher-fury of a rhyming parasite ; nor to be obtained by the invocation of dame Memory and her syren daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all knowledge and utterance, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 65 - forth the aery knights, and couch their spears, Till thickest legions close ; with feats of arms From either end of heaven the welkin burns. Others, with vast Typhœan rage, more fell, Rend up both rocks and hills, and ride the air In whirlwind ; hell scarce holds the wild uproar. As when Alcides, from Œchalia
Page 396 - Is fortitude to highest victory; And to the faithful, death the gate of life ; Taught this by his example, whom I now Acknowledge my Redeemer ever blest." To whom thus also the angel last replied : "This having learn'd, thou hast attain'd the sum Of wisdom ; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou