Selections from Paradise lost: with notes, by R. DemausOliver & Boyd, 1857 - 180 pages |
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... opinion or expression by references to Scripture , or quotations from Milton's other writings ; and to remove from the path of the learner the ob- stacles occasioned by the frequent use of technical terms , obsolete words , foreign ...
... opinion or expression by references to Scripture , or quotations from Milton's other writings ; and to remove from the path of the learner the ob- stacles occasioned by the frequent use of technical terms , obsolete words , foreign ...
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... opinion of many ancient fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to determine thereon , he refers to a full council . What his associates thence attempt . Pande- monium , the palace of Satan , rises suddenly built out ...
... opinion of many ancient fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to determine thereon , he refers to a full council . What his associates thence attempt . Pande- monium , the palace of Satan , rises suddenly built out ...
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... opinion stand His rivals ; winning cheap the high repute , Which he through hazard huge must earn . Dreaded not more th ' adventure , than his voice Forbidding ; and at once with him they rose . 470 But they 475 The remainder of the ...
... opinion stand His rivals ; winning cheap the high repute , Which he through hazard huge must earn . Dreaded not more th ' adventure , than his voice Forbidding ; and at once with him they rose . 470 But they 475 The remainder of the ...
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... opinion ; then retires Into her private cell , when nature rests . Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her ; but , misjoining shapes , Wild work produces oft , and most in dreams ; Ill - matching words and deeds , long past ...
... opinion ; then retires Into her private cell , when nature rests . Oft in her absence mimic Fancy wakes To imitate her ; but , misjoining shapes , Wild work produces oft , and most in dreams ; Ill - matching words and deeds , long past ...
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... opinions of modern travellers , Horeb is the general name for the range of which Sinai is the most prominent summit . 8. That shepherd . Moses is of course referred to . The invo- cation of the muse who inspired Moses is peculiarly ...
... opinions of modern travellers , Horeb is the general name for the range of which Sinai is the most prominent summit . 8. That shepherd . Moses is of course referred to . The invo- cation of the muse who inspired Moses is peculiarly ...
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according Adam Adam and Eve Adam's allusion Almighty Ammonite ancient Argob beasts Beelzebub behold Belial bliss BOOK burning lake call'd called chaos cherubim classical sense darkness death deep delight divine dread earth Egypt envy eternal ev'ning Eve's evil fair fall fear fire fix'd flow'rs fruit garden Genesis glory God's goddess gods gold Greek guile happy hast hath heav'n hell hence hill Imaüs imitation Jupiter king knowledge labour light lost Mammon means Milton mind Moloch moon morning mountain Mozambic night note on line o'er Ormus Osiris pain Paneas Paradise Paradise Lost pass'd passage perhaps Phlegra poet pow'r praise rais'd reason rebel angels refers river round Satan says Scripture seat seem'd Serapis serpent shade song spake spirits stars stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence things thou thoughts throne tree turn'd vex'd voice wand'ring wind word worse worship
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Page 6 - Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast Abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support...
Page 64 - 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 25 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Page 10 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift 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 52 - And all amid them stood the tree of life, High eminent, blooming ambrosial fruit Of vegetable gold; and next to life Our death the tree of knowledge grew fast by, Knowledge of good bought dear by knowing ill.
Page 14 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing; as when men, wont to watch On duty, sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 83 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 8 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 57 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild...
Page 31 - Main reason to persuade immediate war Did not dissuade me most, and seem to cast Ominous conjecture on the whole success...