Paradise lost, Paradise regained, Samson AgonistesMacmillan, 1890 |
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... till 1674 . Either the book was out of print for those five years , or what demand for it there continued to be was supplied out of the surplus of 200 copies which , for some reason or other , Simmons had been authorised to print beyond ...
... till 1674 . Either the book was out of print for those five years , or what demand for it there continued to be was supplied out of the surplus of 200 copies which , for some reason or other , Simmons had been authorised to print beyond ...
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... till the end of 1680 that he settled with the widow , and then in a manner of which the following receipt given by her is a record : - I do hereby acknowledge to have received of Samuel Symonds , Cittizen and Stationer of London , the ...
... till the end of 1680 that he settled with the widow , and then in a manner of which the following receipt given by her is a record : - I do hereby acknowledge to have received of Samuel Symonds , Cittizen and Stationer of London , the ...
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... till then he had been neglected . The statement will not bear investigation , and is in fact one of those sheepish repetitions of 1 It is really a pity that more is not known of this modest and meritorious “ P. H. , ” who wrote so ...
... till then he had been neglected . The statement will not bear investigation , and is in fact one of those sheepish repetitions of 1 It is really a pity that more is not known of this modest and meritorious “ P. H. , ” who wrote so ...
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... far from giving an impulse to the popularity of Milton , actually checked for a while the demand for him . For it was not till eight years after the publication of the above - mentioned NINE MORE EDITIONS BEFORE 1732 27.
... far from giving an impulse to the popularity of Milton , actually checked for a while the demand for him . For it was not till eight years after the publication of the above - mentioned NINE MORE EDITIONS BEFORE 1732 27.
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... till as late as March 31 , 1767 , when it was brought to a close by the death of Jacob Tonson tertius , without issue . Nor , to the last , did Tonson cease to traffic in Milton . In addition to all the previous Tonson editions , and to ...
... till as late as March 31 , 1767 , when it was brought to a close by the death of Jacob Tonson tertius , without issue . Nor , to the last , did Tonson cease to traffic in Milton . In addition to all the previous Tonson editions , and to ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Aldersgate Street Angels arms aught beast Beelzebub behold blind bliss called Chaos Chor cloud copies Dagon dark daughters death delight divine dread dwell Earth edition of Paradise Edmundson Empyrean epic eternal evil eyes fair Father fear Fiend fruit glory grace hand happy hath heard Heaven Heavenly Hell highth hill honour Jacob Tonson John Milton King labour Latin Lauder's less light live London Lord Lucifer mind night o'er pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage Petty France poem poet Poetical published rebel Angels reign round Samson Agonistes Satan seems Serpent shalt sight Simmons soon spake Sphere Spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things Thomas Ellwood thou art thou hast thought throne thyself Tonson tree Universe Vondel whence wings wonder words World
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Page 639 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, and what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 196 - Angels held their residence, And sat as Princes, whom the supreme King Exalted to such power, and gave to rule, Each in his hierarchy, the Orders bright. Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece; and in Ausonian land...
Page 184 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 232 - Thus with the year Seasons return ; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 104 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 231 - Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 272 - Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 191 - At which the universal host up-sent A shout, that tore hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving ; with them rose A forest huge of spears ; and thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields in thick array, Of depth immeasurable...
Page 25 - Three poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed, The next in majesty, in both the last. The force of Nature could no farther go ; To make a third she joined the former two.
Page 43 - I began thus far to assent both to them and divers of my friends here at home ; and not less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me, that by labour and intent study, which I take to be my portion in- this life, joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after-times, as they should not willingly let it die.