The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Explanatory Notes, and a Life of the AuthorD. Appleton, 1852 - 552 pages |
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... moved by these mighty though infant energies , is perpetually stretching beyond what is present and visible , struggling against the bounds of its earthly prison- house , and seeking relief and joy in imaginings of unseen and ideal ...
... moved by these mighty though infant energies , is perpetually stretching beyond what is present and visible , struggling against the bounds of its earthly prison- house , and seeking relief and joy in imaginings of unseen and ideal ...
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... moves with a conscious energy . There is no subject so vast or terrific , as to repel or intimidate him . The overpowering grandeur of a theme kindles and attracts him . He enters on the description of the infernal regions with a ...
... moves with a conscious energy . There is no subject so vast or terrific , as to repel or intimidate him . The overpowering grandeur of a theme kindles and attracts him . He enters on the description of the infernal regions with a ...
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... moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence , through the empty - vaulted night , At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled ! I have oft heard My ...
... moves the vocal air To testify his hidden residence : How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence , through the empty - vaulted night , At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled ! I have oft heard My ...
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... Moved our grand parents , in that happy state , Favour'd of Heav'n so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and trangress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? Th ...
... Moved our grand parents , in that happy state , Favour'd of Heav'n so highly , to fall off From their Creator , and trangress his will For one restraint , lords of the world besides ? Who first seduced them to that foul revolt ? Th ...
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... moving tow'rd the shore ; his pond'rous shield , Ethereal temper , massy , large , and round , Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon , whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ...
... moving tow'rd the shore ; his pond'rous shield , Ethereal temper , massy , large , and round , Behind him cast ; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon , whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At ...
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Page 78 - he thou; since against his thy will Chose freely what it now so justly rues. Me miserahle ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair! Which way I fly is Hell; myself am Hell ; 75 And in the lowest deep a lower deep Still
Page 410 - And the mower whets his scythe. And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath canght new pleasures Whilst the landskip round it measures, -• Russet lawns and fallows grey, Where
Page 171 - Thou Sun, said I, fair light, And thou enlighten'd Earth, so fresh and gay ; Ye Hills and Dales, ye Rivers, Woods, and Plains, And ye that live and move, fair Creatures, tell, 270 Tell if ye saw, how came I thus '. how here ? Not of myself:
Page 412 - long drawn out, 140 With wanton heed, and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus
Page 12 - hrooding on the vast ahyss, And mad'st it pregnant. What in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence,
Page 459 - The frozen earth, and clothe in fresh attire The lily' and rose, that neither sow'd nor spun. What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice Of Attic taste, with wine, whence we may rise 10 To hear the lute well touch'd, or artful voice Warhle immortal notes and Tuscan air? He who of those delights can judge, and
Page 22 - like measure found ; So Jove usurping reign'd: these first in Crete And Ida known, thence on the snowy top 515 Of cold Olympus, ruled the middle air, Their highest heav'n ; or on the Delphian cliff, Or in Dodona, and through all the hounds Of Doric land; or who with Saturn old Fled over Adria to
Page 56 - Before the Sun, Before the Heav'ns thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep. Won from the void and formless infinite. Thee I
Page 58 - At So much the rather thou. celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her pow-rs Irradiate, there plant eyes ; all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things
Page 397 - He that has light within his own clear hreast May sit i' th' centre, and enjoy hright day : But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts, Benighted walks under the mid-day sun : Himself is his own dungeon. I do not