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... confused , so meaning- less is much of it ; yet some pin their faith to it as being his . In every edition it is generally made to trammel and manacle the free flow of the verse , and in many passages it is imposed in a way so as ...
... confused , so meaning- less is much of it ; yet some pin their faith to it as being his . In every edition it is generally made to trammel and manacle the free flow of the verse , and in many passages it is imposed in a way so as ...
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... confusion of the commentators is , perhaps , natural , because they are struggling with a difficulty which cannot , it seems to me , be overcome by any efforts at explanation . As another instance of embarrassment I quote what Professor ...
... confusion of the commentators is , perhaps , natural , because they are struggling with a difficulty which cannot , it seems to me , be overcome by any efforts at explanation . As another instance of embarrassment I quote what Professor ...
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... confusion stand . For Hot , Cold , Moist , and Dry , four champions fierce , Strive here for mastery , and to battle bring This is the received text . My restorations are here shown- where eldest Night And Chaos , ancestors of Nature ...
... confusion stand . For Hot , Cold , Moist , and Dry , four champions fierce , Strive here for mastery , and to battle bring This is the received text . My restorations are here shown- where eldest Night And Chaos , ancestors of Nature ...
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... Confusion " -a change which supplies the key to the true construction of the fresh sentence ; which makes it brilliantly luminous , which supplies further dignity to it , and which certainly harmonises admirably with the ...
... Confusion " -a change which supplies the key to the true construction of the fresh sentence ; which makes it brilliantly luminous , which supplies further dignity to it , and which certainly harmonises admirably with the ...
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... confusion in the opening lines of Book V. shows that intermixture of lines and clauses took place some- how after the MS . had left the author's hands ; not that there is any confusion in the passage here given . Professor Masson tells ...
... confusion in the opening lines of Book V. shows that intermixture of lines and clauses took place some- how after the MS . had left the author's hands ; not that there is any confusion in the passage here given . Professor Masson tells ...
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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...