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Page vii
... write a great epic poem . Very slowly his great purpose assumed definite shape in his mind . The poems in which he ... writes in the Apology for Smectymnus " among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the ...
... write a great epic poem . Very slowly his great purpose assumed definite shape in his mind . The poems in which he ... writes in the Apology for Smectymnus " among those lofty fables and romances which recount in solemn cantos the ...
Page x
... write a drama upon the subject he had chosen , and Satan's address to the Sun , in the beginning of the fourth book , was originally intended to be the commencement of a tragedy . But , as time went on , he changed his mind , and came ...
... write a drama upon the subject he had chosen , and Satan's address to the Sun , in the beginning of the fourth book , was originally intended to be the commencement of a tragedy . But , as time went on , he changed his mind , and came ...
Page xvii
... write well hereafter in laudable things , ought himself to be a true poem , that is , a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities , unless he have in ...
... write well hereafter in laudable things , ought himself to be a true poem , that is , a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things ; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men or famous cities , unless he have in ...
Page xix
... write religious and moral poetry , he felt himself thoroughly in harmony with his own party in the state ; but his admiration for the beauties of literature and the fine arts , which he shared with Charles I. and many of his courtiers ...
... write religious and moral poetry , he felt himself thoroughly in harmony with his own party in the state ; but his admiration for the beauties of literature and the fine arts , which he shared with Charles I. and many of his courtiers ...
Page xxii
... write in English . The first reason was the conviction that if he wrote in Latin he would have the greatest difficulty in even attaining the second rank among Latin writers ; his other motive was the patriotic conviction that by the ...
... write in English . The first reason was the conviction that if he wrote in Latin he would have the greatest difficulty in even attaining the second rank among Latin writers ; his other motive was the patriotic conviction that by the ...
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Adam and Eve adjective adverb Aeneid amphibrach anapaest apposition Asmodeus beauty bower bright called character Cherub clause Compare 11 death DEIGHTON delight derived described Devil Diodorus Siculus earth English evil express F. J. ROWE fair fall fallen angels Fiend flowers fruit Gabriel garden Garden of Eden gate genius glory God's Greek happy hast hath Heaven Hell Homer hope Iapetus intransitive Italian Keightley king Latin means MICHAEL MACMILLAN Milton Milton's poetry mind misery monosyllable Mozambic natural night noun object pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pare participle passage poet poetical polyptoton previous line Prime Orb Puritan regarded round sapphire Satan scale seems sense sewed shade shows sleep son of Noah spear speech spirit stood suggests sweet syllables taste Tennyson thee thou thought throne thyself transitive verb Tree of Knowledge Uriel verb verse Vondel's W. T. WEBB word write