The poetical works of John Milton. Paradise lost and regained1860 |
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Page ix
... less characteristic of all the poetic productions of this period of retirement ; -the Arcades , the Lycidas , L'Allegro , and Il Penseroso , were all written within these five years ; and the reader who peruses them for the first time ...
... less characteristic of all the poetic productions of this period of retirement ; -the Arcades , the Lycidas , L'Allegro , and Il Penseroso , were all written within these five years ; and the reader who peruses them for the first time ...
Page xii
... less singular than the immediate compliance it met with . The period of Michaelmas was fixed for her return , but she came not ; and repeated letters from her husband were even left unanswered . Milton then sent a messen- ger ...
... less singular than the immediate compliance it met with . The period of Michaelmas was fixed for her return , but she came not ; and repeated letters from her husband were even left unanswered . Milton then sent a messen- ger ...
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... less than friends manifested their sense of its power . It was publicly burned at Paris and Toulouse It was translated into Dutch for the special benefit of the countrymen of Salmasius , to his own extreme vexation , while the States ...
... less than friends manifested their sense of its power . It was publicly burned at Paris and Toulouse It was translated into Dutch for the special benefit of the countrymen of Salmasius , to his own extreme vexation , while the States ...
Page xvi
... less , as it was dangerous , for Milton to reply . CHAPTER III . HIS BLINDNESS . On the 2d of May 1662 , Milton's family was increased by another daughter , at the cost of her mother's life . The account of his nephew affords abundant ...
... less , as it was dangerous , for Milton to reply . CHAPTER III . HIS BLINDNESS . On the 2d of May 1662 , Milton's family was increased by another daughter , at the cost of her mother's life . The account of his nephew affords abundant ...
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... less pithy " This man cuts us all out , and the ancients too ! " With the close of his great life - work , we may end this biographical sketch . Ere the first edition of his poem had been sold , he was numbered with the mighty dead ...
... less pithy " This man cuts us all out , and the ancients too ! " With the close of his great life - work , we may end this biographical sketch . Ere the first edition of his poem had been sold , he was numbered with the mighty dead ...
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Page 10 - He scarce had ceased, when the superior fiend Was moving toward the shore: his ponderous shield, Ethereal temper, massy, large, and round, Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views, At evening, from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 3 - Hurl'd headlong flaming from the ethereal sky, With hideous ruin and combustion, down To bottomless perdition ; there to dwell In adamantine chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 133 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 113 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncolour'd sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune his praise. Join voices all ye living Souls: Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise....
Page 23 - In spring time, when the sun with Taurus rides, Pour forth their populous youth about the hive In clusters: they among fresh dews and flowers Fly to and fro, or on the smoothed plank, The suburb of their strawbuilt citadel, New rubb'd with balm, expatiate and confer Their state affairs.
Page 59 - Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Not free, what proof could they have given sincere Of true allegiance, constant faith, or love, Where only what they needs must do appear'd, Not what they would ? what praise could they receive ? What pleasure I from such obedience paid ? When will and reason, reason also is choice, Useless and vain, of freedom both despoil'd, Made passive both, had served necessity, Not me?
Page 90 - What thou seest, What there thou seest, fair creature, is thyself; With thee it came and goes : but follow me, And I will bring thee where no shadow stays Thy coming, and thy soft embraces ; he Whose image thou art, him thou shalt enjoy Inseparably thine, to him shalt bear Multitudes like thyself, and thence be call'd Mother of human race.
Page 14 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock 450 Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page 11 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 2 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and with mig^y wings outspread Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And madest it pregnant: what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.