The British Poets: Including Translations ...C. Whittingham, 1822 - Classical poetry |
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... Paradise Lost . By Andrew Marvell ..... Epigram on Milton . By Dryden From an Account of the greatest English Poets ... PARADISE LOST . Book 1 .. Book II .. Book III . Book IV . Book V. Book VI .. 102 128 160 ..... 183 214 242 ASTOR ...
... Paradise Lost . By Andrew Marvell ..... Epigram on Milton . By Dryden From an Account of the greatest English Poets ... PARADISE LOST . Book 1 .. Book II .. Book III . Book IV . Book V. Book VI .. 102 128 160 ..... 183 214 242 ASTOR ...
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Including Translations ... ASTOR LIBRAR NY ASTOR LIBRA MILTONcomposing PARADISE LOST THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.
Including Translations ... ASTOR LIBRAR NY ASTOR LIBRA MILTONcomposing PARADISE LOST THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON.
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Including Translations ... ASTOR LIBRA MILTONcomposing PARADISE LOST THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON . BY.
Including Translations ... ASTOR LIBRA MILTONcomposing PARADISE LOST THE LIFE OF JOHN MILTON . BY.
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... Paradise Lost ; ' a design so comprehensive , that it could be justified only by success . He had once designed to celebrate King Arthur , as he hints in his verses to Mansus ; but ' Arthur was reserved , ' says Fenton , ' to another ...
... Paradise Lost ; ' a design so comprehensive , that it could be justified only by success . He had once designed to celebrate King Arthur , as he hints in his verses to Mansus ; but ' Arthur was reserved , ' says Fenton , ' to another ...
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... Paradise . ACT III . Lucifer contriving Adam's ruin . Chorus fears for Adam , and relates Lucifer's rebel- lion and fall . ACT IV . Adam , Eve , fallen . Conscience cites them to God's examination . Chorus bewails , and tells the good ...
... Paradise . ACT III . Lucifer contriving Adam's ruin . Chorus fears for Adam , and relates Lucifer's rebel- lion and fall . ACT IV . Adam , Eve , fallen . Conscience cites them to God's examination . Chorus bewails , and tells the good ...
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Abdiel Adam Almighty angels appear'd arm'd arms battle Beelzebub behold blank verse bliss burning lake call'd celestial Cherub Cherubim clouds Comus dark daughter death deep delight divine dread earth eternal etherial evil eyes fair Fair Angel fall Father fear fell fire flames friends Gabriel glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heaven heavenly Hell highth hill hope host infernal Ithuriel John Milton join'd King Latin less light Lycidas mankind Messiah Milton mind Moloch nature never night o'er ordain'd pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass'd perhaps poem poet poetry praise rage reason reign revenge rhyme round Satan seem'd seems Seraph Seraphim shade sight soon spake Spirits stood sweet Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou thoughts throne thunder thyself turn'd Uriel verse vex'd whence winds wings wonder Zephon
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Page 100 - This neglect of rime is so little to be taken for a defect, though it may seem so perhaps to vulgar readers, that it is rather to be esteemed an example, the first in English, of ancient liberty recovered to heroic poem from the troublesome and modern bondage of riming.