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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... transactions in a clear light , and You have fufficient materials by You for this purpose , and have often been folicited by Your freinds to do it but Your Lordship's anfwer A 4 anfwer always was , that you would leave it to DEDICATION .
... transactions in a clear light , and You have fufficient materials by You for this purpose , and have often been folicited by Your freinds to do it but Your Lordship's anfwer A 4 anfwer always was , that you would leave it to DEDICATION .
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... purposes will not allow You to have acted a wife , must yet be forced to acknowledge that You acted a most disin- terested part . For it is very well known , that You were even courted to accept the place of the greatest power and confi ...
... purposes will not allow You to have acted a wife , must yet be forced to acknowledge that You acted a most disin- terested part . For it is very well known , that You were even courted to accept the place of the greatest power and confi ...
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... purpose ; and there is as little rea- fon for fixing it upon him , as he had to traduce the King for profaning the duty of prayer " with the " polluted trash of romances . " For there are not many finer prayers in the best books of ...
... purpose ; and there is as little rea- fon for fixing it upon him , as he had to traduce the King for profaning the duty of prayer " with the " polluted trash of romances . " For there are not many finer prayers in the best books of ...
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... purpose , and the book was published in 1649 with this title Defenfio Regia pro Carolo I. ad Carolum II . No sooner did this book appear in England , but the Council of State unanimoufly ap- pointed Milton , who was then present , to ...
... purpose , and the book was published in 1649 with this title Defenfio Regia pro Carolo I. ad Carolum II . No sooner did this book appear in England , but the Council of State unanimoufly ap- pointed Milton , who was then present , to ...
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... purpose , that was he free from the pain of the gout , his blindness would be tolerable . But there is the less need to be particular in the de-- scription of his person , as the idea of his face and countenance is pretty well known ...
... purpose , that was he free from the pain of the gout , his blindness would be tolerable . But there is the less need to be particular in the de-- scription of his person , as the idea of his face and countenance is pretty well known ...
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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...