The first four books of Milton's Paradise lost, with notes, by J.R. Major1835 |
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Page xii
... things or persons , he never quits his simile until it rises to some very great idea , which is often foreign to the occasion that gave birth to it . The resemblance does not , perhaps , last above a line or two , but the poet runs on ...
... things or persons , he never quits his simile until it rises to some very great idea , which is often foreign to the occasion that gave birth to it . The resemblance does not , perhaps , last above a line or two , but the poet runs on ...
Page xviii
... things , Abominable , inutterable , and worse Than fables yet have feign'd , or fear conceived , Gorgons and Hydras , and Chimeras dire . This episode of the falling spirits , and their place of habitation , comes in very happily to ...
... things , Abominable , inutterable , and worse Than fables yet have feign'd , or fear conceived , Gorgons and Hydras , and Chimeras dire . This episode of the falling spirits , and their place of habitation , comes in very happily to ...
Page xxi
... thing that is truly great and astonishing has a place in it . The whole system of the intellectual world - the chaos , and the creation - heaven , earth , and hell - enter into the constitution of his poem . Having in the first and ...
... thing that is truly great and astonishing has a place in it . The whole system of the intellectual world - the chaos , and the creation - heaven , earth , and hell - enter into the constitution of his poem . Having in the first and ...
Page xxii
... thing that is transacted in it , is a prospect worthy of Omni- science , and as much above that in which Virgil has drawn his Jupiter , as the Christian idea of the Supreme Being is more rational and sublime than that of the Heathens ...
... thing that is transacted in it , is a prospect worthy of Omni- science , and as much above that in which Virgil has drawn his Jupiter , as the Christian idea of the Supreme Being is more rational and sublime than that of the Heathens ...
Page xxiv
... things as have really happened , or at least of such things as have happened according to the received opinions of mankind . Milton's fable is a master- piece of this nature ; as the war in heaven , the condition of the fallen angels ...
... things as have really happened , or at least of such things as have happened according to the received opinions of mankind . Milton's fable is a master- piece of this nature ; as the war in heaven , the condition of the fallen angels ...
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Æneid Almighty ancient angels appear'd Assyria beams beautiful Beelzebub Belial Bentley bliss bright burning lake call'd called Callimachus Chaos Cocytus Compare CowPER creation darkness death deep delight Demogorgon dreadful earth Egypt Ekron eternal evil fable fiend fill'd fire gates glory gods gold golden grace happy hath heaven hell highth hill Homer HUME Iliad Imaus infernal Ithuriel Kings Latin light lost Milton Moloch moon Mozambic night o'er Ovid pain Pandæmonium Paradise PARADISE LOST pass'd passage PEARCE Phlegethon poem poet quæ rage reign revenge RICHARDSON river round Satan says Scripture seem'd shade shape signifies spake spear speech spirits stars stood Telassar Thammuz thee thence things thither thou thoughts throne thunder tree turn'd Uriel vex'd viii Virg Virgil whence winds wings word καὶ τε
Popular passages
Page viii - 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 88 - As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs : they on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole...
Page 180 - And worthy seem'd ; for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom placed ; Whence true authority in men ; though both Not equal, as their sex not equal seem'd : For contemplation he and valour form'd, For softness she and sweet attractive grace ; He for God only, she for God in him.
Page 45 - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Page 11 - This downfall; since by fate the strength of gods And this empyreal* substance cannot fail; Since through experience of this great event In arms not worse, in foresight much...
Page 121 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 119 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page 20 - Busiris and his Memphian chivalry, While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen, who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels : so thick bestrown, Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood Under amazement of their hideous change. He call'd so loud that all the hollow deep Of Hell resounded.
Page 68 - Wants not her hidden lustre, gems and gold ; Nor want we skill or art, from whence to raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven show more?
Page xix - Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe, who sets them on, And me, his parent, would full soon devour For want of other...