The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton, Volume 1W. Baxter, 1824 |
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... round , And solitude . * Richardson , Remarks , p . xciv . Dr. Symmons observes that these apprehensions were not those of a weak mind , or felt without sufficient cause ; but were fully justified by the fate of Ludlow , pursued with ...
... round , And solitude . * Richardson , Remarks , p . xciv . Dr. Symmons observes that these apprehensions were not those of a weak mind , or felt without sufficient cause ; but were fully justified by the fate of Ludlow , pursued with ...
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... round he throws his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate : At once , as far as angels ken , he views The dismal situation waste and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides round ...
... round he throws his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate : At once , as far as angels ken , he views The dismal situation waste and wild ; A dungeon horrible on all sides round ...
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... round , Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon , whose orb 276. on the perilous edge Of battle ] Perhaps he had in mind Virgil , En . ix . 528 . Et mecum ingentes oras evolvite belli . Jortin ...
... round , Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon , whose orb 276. on the perilous edge Of battle ] Perhaps he had in mind Virgil , En . ix . 528 . Et mecum ingentes oras evolvite belli . Jortin ...
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... round the coast , up call'd a pitchy cloud Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darken'd all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad angels seen Hovering on wing ...
... round the coast , up call'd a pitchy cloud Of locusts , warping on the eastern wind , That o'er the realm of impious Pharaoh hung Like night , and darken'd all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad angels seen Hovering on wing ...
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... round , and durst abide Jehovah thund'ring out of Sion , thron'd Between the Cherubim ; yea , often plac'd Within his sanctuary itself their shrines , Abominations ; and with cursed things His holy rites and solemn feasts profan'd , And ...
... round , and durst abide Jehovah thund'ring out of Sion , thron'd Between the Cherubim ; yea , often plac'd Within his sanctuary itself their shrines , Abominations ; and with cursed things His holy rites and solemn feasts profan'd , And ...
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Page 14 - Hurled 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 25 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd, his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 263 - Had in 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...
Page 27 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 160 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 127 - And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
Page 165 - Tunes her nocturnal note : 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...
Page 141 - Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere He rules a moment : Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 308 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 334 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours ; Differing but in degree, of kind the same.