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Page 57
... and dictated in the day , sitting obliquely in an elbow - chair , with his leg thrown over the arm . Fortune appears not to have had much of his care . In the civil wars he lent his personal estate to F 2 THE LIFE OF MILTON . 57.
... and dictated in the day , sitting obliquely in an elbow - chair , with his leg thrown over the arm . Fortune appears not to have had much of his care . In the civil wars he lent his personal estate to F 2 THE LIFE OF MILTON . 57.
Page 72
... arm him with the force Of all their regions ; powers , which only the control of Omnipotence re- strains from laying creation waste , and filling the vast expanse of space with ruin and confusion . To dis- play the motives and actions ...
... arm him with the force Of all their regions ; powers , which only the control of Omnipotence re- strains from laying creation waste , and filling the vast expanse of space with ruin and confusion . To dis- play the motives and actions ...
Page 82
... arms of the contending angels are evidently material . : 27 If this were true , it would at once destroy the whole merit of Paradise Lost ' as a poem . The prime duty of poetry is to please and if the united force of study and genius ...
... arms of the contending angels are evidently material . : 27 If this were true , it would at once destroy the whole merit of Paradise Lost ' as a poem . The prime duty of poetry is to please and if the united force of study and genius ...
Page 83
... arms , for unarmed they might easily as spirits have evaded by contraction or remove . Even as spirits they are hardly spiritual ; for contraction and remove are images of matter ; but if they could have escaped without their armour ...
... arms , for unarmed they might easily as spirits have evaded by contraction or remove . Even as spirits they are hardly spiritual ; for contraction and remove are images of matter ; but if they could have escaped without their armour ...
Page 95
... arms ! Whate'er his pen describes I more than see , Whilst every verse arrayed in majesty , Bold and sublime , my whole attention draws , And seems above the critic's nicer laws . How are you struck with terror and delight , When angel ...
... arms ! Whate'er his pen describes I more than see , Whilst every verse arrayed in majesty , Bold and sublime , my whole attention draws , And seems above the critic's nicer laws . How are you struck with terror and delight , When angel ...
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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.