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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Page 9
... honor is due to the virgins of Britain; be content, foreign woman, to follow after. And you, London, the city built by Trojan colonists and now widely conspicuous with towered head,” yours is the excessive happiness of bounding within ...
... honor is due to the virgins of Britain; be content, foreign woman, to follow after. And you, London, the city built by Trojan colonists and now widely conspicuous with towered head,” yours is the excessive happiness of bounding within ...
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... honor to the son of Iapetus,” who brought down the celestial fire from the chariot of the sun; but in my eyes he will be a greater man who is credited with having stolen his flaming weapons and threeforked thunderbolt from Jove ...
... honor to the son of Iapetus,” who brought down the celestial fire from the chariot of the sun; but in my eyes he will be a greater man who is credited with having stolen his flaming weapons and threeforked thunderbolt from Jove ...
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... honor of the primitive faith and well instructed how to feed the sheep that love Christ. Truly, that man is more than the other half of my soul” and without him I am compelled to live a life which is but the half of itself. Alas for me ...
... honor of the primitive faith and well instructed how to feed the sheep that love Christ. Truly, that man is more than the other half of my soul” and without him I am compelled to live a life which is but the half of itself. Alas for me ...
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... Honor of Sir Herbert Grierson, p. 200) regards ll. 115-130 as “the best commentary on Poussin's 'Bacchanalian Dance'”! The spirit (if not the style) of Elegies V and VII reflects the treatment of their theme by works as diverse as ...
... Honor of Sir Herbert Grierson, p. 200) regards ll. 115-130 as “the best commentary on Poussin's 'Bacchanalian Dance'”! The spirit (if not the style) of Elegies V and VII reflects the treatment of their theme by works as diverse as ...
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... honor.” If a bribe and if glittering gifts have power over you—and love is often bought with gifts—she spreads before you all the wealth in the Et superiniectis montibus, abdit opes. Ah, quoties cum tu clivoso. 44. Cf. Phoebus as the sun ...
... honor.” If a bribe and if glittering gifts have power over you—and love is often bought with gifts—she spreads before you all the wealth in the Et superiniectis montibus, abdit opes. Ah, quoties cum tu clivoso. 44. Cf. Phoebus as the sun ...
Contents
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173 | |
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