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... appearance of each successive portion ; he read with the concentrated attention of one who has few books . Milton's power exalted his imagination , and he longed to sing great themes . He MILTON'S WORKS . XXV dwelt on the union of ...
... appearance of each successive portion ; he read with the concentrated attention of one who has few books . Milton's power exalted his imagination , and he longed to sing great themes . He MILTON'S WORKS . XXV dwelt on the union of ...
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... appearance of inaccuracy and negli- gence , did not design to express his contempt of their trumpery , as he calls it , by hustling it all together in this disorder and confusion " —and he further speaks of it as " artful negligence ...
... appearance of inaccuracy and negli- gence , did not design to express his contempt of their trumpery , as he calls it , by hustling it all together in this disorder and confusion " —and he further speaks of it as " artful negligence ...
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... appeared Less than Archangel ruined and the excess Of glory obscured . Though for possession put to try once more What thou and thy gay legions dare against— [ Line 942 ] I am strongly inclined to substitute again for against , the ...
... appeared Less than Archangel ruined and the excess Of glory obscured . Though for possession put to try once more What thou and thy gay legions dare against— [ Line 942 ] I am strongly inclined to substitute again for against , the ...
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... that no skill or dextrousness could evade the stroke . ' See lines 319 , 320 , " nor odds appeared in might or swift pre- vention . " BOOK VI . ] MY EMENDATIONS - VERBAL . lix lviii MY EMENDATIONS- -VERBAL . [ BOOK VI .
... that no skill or dextrousness could evade the stroke . ' See lines 319 , 320 , " nor odds appeared in might or swift pre- vention . " BOOK VI . ] MY EMENDATIONS - VERBAL . lix lviii MY EMENDATIONS- -VERBAL . [ BOOK VI .
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... appeared in hue ) : as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill 227 The banishment of all sense is complete in all the editions as they give it , thus : - He lights , if it were land that ever burned With solid , as the ...
... appeared in hue ) : as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill 227 The banishment of all sense is complete in all the editions as they give it , thus : - He lights , if it were land that ever burned With solid , as the ...
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Page 97 - ... her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased: now...
Page 81 - So farewell hope, and, with hope, farewell fear, Farewell remorse! All good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my Good: by thee at least no Divided empire with Heaven's King I hold.
Page 98 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower...
Page 114 - Speak, ye who best can tell, ye sons of light, Angels; for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing ; ye in Heaven. On Earth join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 17 - At which the universal host upsent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving; with them rose A forest huge of spears, and thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable...
Page 56 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 9 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater? Here at least We shall be free; the almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: 260 Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 4 - The mother of mankind, what time his pride Had cast him out from Heaven, with all his host Of rebel Angels, by whose aid, aspiring To set himself in glory...