Paradise lost, emended, with notes and preface [&c.] by M. Mull1884 |
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... doubt ( though not in him , strange as it seems ) as to the accuracy of the early copies ; he tells us it is probable that “ more than one copy in MS . was made . " The poem was dictated “ by any hand that happened to be near . " " In ...
... doubt ( though not in him , strange as it seems ) as to the accuracy of the early copies ; he tells us it is probable that “ more than one copy in MS . was made . " The poem was dictated “ by any hand that happened to be near . " " In ...
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... . " The Rev. Francis Gell so highly estimated them as to write to me thus : " I have no doubt you will be able to let all England know that they have never yet read the real Milton , but only a garbled version of him .
... . " The Rev. Francis Gell so highly estimated them as to write to me thus : " I have no doubt you will be able to let all England know that they have never yet read the real Milton , but only a garbled version of him .
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... doubt promptly and duly adjust it ; but it is this very class who will share to the full the delight experienced by cultivated minds when contemplating the evident restoration of a mutilated passage to its original beauty , and the reve ...
... doubt promptly and duly adjust it ; but it is this very class who will share to the full the delight experienced by cultivated minds when contemplating the evident restoration of a mutilated passage to its original beauty , and the reve ...
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... doubt , commend itself , as lending powerful proof to my emendation ; it also secures the smooth and needful course of the former clause to the end - thus , What pleasure I , from such obedience paid , When will and reason had served ...
... doubt , commend itself , as lending powerful proof to my emendation ; it also secures the smooth and needful course of the former clause to the end - thus , What pleasure I , from such obedience paid , When will and reason had served ...
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... doubt if he were conscious of having made an emendation , for he gives no indica- tion nor does he remark that he has here departed from the received reading ; nor has he ventured upon making any other restoration in the text . Think ...
... doubt if he were conscious of having made an emendation , for he gives no indica- tion nor does he remark that he has here departed from the received reading ; nor has he ventured upon making any other restoration in the text . Think ...
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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...