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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... better , or admire him more ; yet if I can make him more generally understood , and consequently more juftly admired , Your Lordship's purpofe and mine will be fufficiently anfwered . Your Lordship's tafte has never been queftioned ...
... better , or admire him more ; yet if I can make him more generally understood , and consequently more juftly admired , Your Lordship's purpofe and mine will be fufficiently anfwered . Your Lordship's tafte has never been queftioned ...
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... better fuccefs ; but when he at- tempted the latter , and substituted verses of his own in the room of Milton's , he commonly made most miferable bungling work , being no poet himself , and having little or no tafte of poetry . Dr ...
... better fuccefs ; but when he at- tempted the latter , and substituted verses of his own in the room of Milton's , he commonly made most miferable bungling work , being no poet himself , and having little or no tafte of poetry . Dr ...
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... better ef- fect in the form of fhort notes , when the particular paffages referred to came immediately under confi- deration , and the context lay before the reader . There would have been more of the pomp and oftentation of criticism ...
... better ef- fect in the form of fhort notes , when the particular paffages referred to came immediately under confi- deration , and the context lay before the reader . There would have been more of the pomp and oftentation of criticism ...
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... better writings which he was meditating , more useful to the public , as well as more fuitable to his own ge- nius and inclination : but he thought all this while that he was vindicating ecclefiaftical liberty . In the year 1643 , and ...
... better writings which he was meditating , more useful to the public , as well as more fuitable to his own ge- nius and inclination : but he thought all this while that he was vindicating ecclefiaftical liberty . In the year 1643 , and ...
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... better of the two . To this account it may be added from Antony Wood , that after the King's restoration , when the fubject of divorce was under confideration with the Lords upon the account of John Lord Ros or Roos his feparation from ...
... better of the two . To this account it may be added from Antony Wood , that after the King's restoration , when the fubject of divorce was under confideration with the Lords upon the account of John Lord Ros or Roos his feparation from ...
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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...