Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D. ...J. and R. Tonson, B. Dodd, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin [and 8 others in London], 1763 |
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... Hell are joined together for the de- truction of mankind , which they effected in part , and would have completed , had not Omnipotence itself interposed . The principal actors are Man in his greatest per- fection , and Woman in her ...
... Hell are joined together for the de- truction of mankind , which they effected in part , and would have completed , had not Omnipotence itself interposed . The principal actors are Man in his greatest per- fection , and Woman in her ...
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... Hell - doom'd , embryon , atoms , and many others . If the reader is offended at this liberty in our Eng- lith poet , I would recommend him to a discourse in Plutarch , which shows us how frequently Homer has made use of the same ...
... Hell - doom'd , embryon , atoms , and many others . If the reader is offended at this liberty in our Eng- lith poet , I would recommend him to a discourse in Plutarch , which shows us how frequently Homer has made use of the same ...
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... Hell , say first what cause Mov'd our grand parents , in that happy state ,. 25 informed by those , who had oppor- tunities of converfing with his wi- dow , that she was wont to say that he did really look upon himself as inspir'd , and ...
... Hell , say first what cause Mov'd our grand parents , in that happy state ,. 25 informed by those , who had oppor- tunities of converfing with his wi- dow , that she was wont to say that he did really look upon himself as inspir'd , and ...
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... Hell is very proper in this place , as the scene of fo great a part of the poem is laid sometimes in Hell , and fometimes in Heaven . 32. For one restraint . ] For one thing that was restrain'd , every thing elfe being freely indulged ...
... Hell is very proper in this place , as the scene of fo great a part of the poem is laid sometimes in Hell , and fometimes in Heaven . 32. For one restraint . ] For one thing that was restrain'd , every thing elfe being freely indulged ...
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... Hell into feas of fire , and into firm ground impregnant with the fame furious element , with that particular circumstance of the ex- clufion of hope from those infernal regions , are instances of the fame great and fruitful invention ...
... Hell into feas of fire , and into firm ground impregnant with the fame furious element , with that particular circumstance of the ex- clufion of hope from those infernal regions , are instances of the fame great and fruitful invention ...
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Page vii - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more.
Page 186 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 414 - By none ; and if not equal all, yet free, Equally free ; for orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist.
Page 31 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Page 256 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 257 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Page 146 - Whence and what art thou, execrable shape! That dar'st, 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 354 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 79 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Page 272 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Water'd the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears ; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country...