The Complete Poems and Major ProseFirst published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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... Serpents – Edward Topsell, A Historie of Serpents S.M. – E. M. W. Tillyard, Studies in Milton (1951) Stuarts – Godfrey Davies, The Early Stuarts, 1603–1660 (1937) Style – Arnold Stein, Answerable Style (1953) Summa Theol. — St. Thomas ...
... Serpents – Edward Topsell, A Historie of Serpents S.M. – E. M. W. Tillyard, Studies in Milton (1951) Stuarts – Godfrey Davies, The Early Stuarts, 1603–1660 (1937) Style – Arnold Stein, Answerable Style (1953) Summa Theol. — St. Thomas ...
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... serpent's blood have stricken you, O son of Philyra;* nor would you 30 have been smitten with the bolts and thunder of your grandsire, O boy cut from your mother's womb.” And you”—who are greater than your pupil, Apollo, to whom the ...
... serpent's blood have stricken you, O son of Philyra;* nor would you 30 have been smitten with the bolts and thunder of your grandsire, O boy cut from your mother's womb.” And you”—who are greater than your pupil, Apollo, to whom the ...
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... Serpent, lyingly shaped his execrable lips to these words: “Do you sleep, my son?” Does slumber weigh down your limbs? Immemor O fidei, pecorumque oblite tuorum! Dum cathedram, venerande, tuam. 92. The line parodies Mercury's greeting of ...
... Serpent, lyingly shaped his execrable lips to these words: “Do you sleep, my son?” Does slumber weigh down your limbs? Immemor O fidei, pecorumque oblite tuorum! Dum cathedram, venerande, tuam. 92. The line parodies Mercury's greeting of ...
Page 49
... serpent which figures in PL I, 199. 229. Cf. this fancy with Marvell's Upon Appleton House, 661–4: The sun himself of her aware, Seems to descend with greater care, And, lest she see him go to bed, In blushing clouds conceals his head ...
... serpent which figures in PL I, 199. 229. Cf. this fancy with Marvell's Upon Appleton House, 661–4: The sun himself of her aware, Seems to descend with greater care, And, lest she see him go to bed, In blushing clouds conceals his head ...
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... serpent of Apollo” afford you any help.” Thus he spoke, and, shaking the arrow with the point of gold, he flew away to the warm breast of Cypris. But I was inclined to laugh at the threats that the angry fellow thundered at me and I had ...
... serpent of Apollo” afford you any help.” Thus he spoke, and, shaking the arrow with the point of gold, he flew away to the warm breast of Cypris. But I was inclined to laugh at the threats that the angry fellow thundered at me and I had ...
Contents
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Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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Adam Aeneid ancient angels Areopagitica Aristotle Beast behold bishops Book called Chorus Christ Christian church Comus dark death delight divine doctrine doth E. M. W. Tillyard Earth Euripides evil eyes faith Father fear fire glory God's goddess gods grace Greek hand happy hast hath heart Heav'n heavenly Hell Hesiod holy honor human John John Milton Jove King Latin meaning learned less light live Lord Lycidas marriage Milton mind Muses nature night Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace perhaps Philistines Plato poem poet praise prelates Psalm Roman Samson Agonistes Satan says Serpent song SONNET soul spake spirit stars stood story sweet thee things thir thou thought Throne tion tradition translation Tree truth verse VIII virtue wings wisdom words Zeus