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Page 89
... happy readers of Milton , who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin . Blank verse , said an ingenious critic , seems to be verse only to the eye . Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not ...
... happy readers of Milton , who enable their audience to perceive where the lines end or begin . Blank verse , said an ingenious critic , seems to be verse only to the eye . Poetry may subsist without rhyme , but English poetry will not ...
Page 104
... happy state , Favour'd of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? — The ' infernal Serpent : he it was ...
... happy state , Favour'd of Heaven so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and transgress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? — The ' infernal Serpent : he it was ...
Page 106
... happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness , didst outshine Myriads though bright ! if he , whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels , equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise , Join'd with me once ...
... happy realms of light , Clothed with transcendent brightness , didst outshine Myriads though bright ! if he , whom mutual league , United thoughts and counsels , equal hope And hazard in the glorious enterprise , Join'd with me once ...
Page 108
... happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he , our conqueror , ( whom I now Of force believe almighty , since no less [ ours , ) Than such could have o'er - power'd such force as Have left us this our spirit and ...
... happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he , our conqueror , ( whom I now Of force believe almighty , since no less [ ours , ) Than such could have o'er - power'd such force as Have left us this our spirit and ...
Page 111
... happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells ! hail horrors ! hail Infernal world ! and thou , profoundest Hell ! Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in ...
... happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells ! hail horrors ! hail Infernal world ! and thou , profoundest Hell ! Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in ...
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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.