The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton, Volume 1W. Baxter, 1824 |
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... writer of distinction . Dr. Symmons's Life of Milton supplied a few notes upon the Sonnets , and Latin poems ; and it might have furnished me with two or three more upon other parts of the work , had not these been printed before I read ...
... writer of distinction . Dr. Symmons's Life of Milton supplied a few notes upon the Sonnets , and Latin poems ; and it might have furnished me with two or three more upon other parts of the work , had not these been printed before I read ...
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... writer , who was an author by profession ; and it does not afford so many particulars of Milton's private life as might have been expected from one who knew him so intimately . Bishop Newton has incorpo rated in his Life of Milton ...
... writer , who was an author by profession ; and it does not afford so many particulars of Milton's private life as might have been expected from one who knew him so intimately . Bishop Newton has incorpo rated in his Life of Milton ...
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... writer was a foreigner . Dr. Birch , however , who gave an account of Milton in the General Dictionary , and again with his edition of the Prose Works in 1738 , added a little to the information already extant , from his own ...
... writer was a foreigner . Dr. Birch , however , who gave an account of Milton in the General Dictionary , and again with his edition of the Prose Works in 1738 , added a little to the information already extant , from his own ...
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... writer , usually understood to be Archdeacon Blackburne , wrote his Remarks professedly upon the Life by John- son ... write with more candour and discrimination ; occasionally ton . also he can notice calmly the weak points 26 PREFACE .
... writer , usually understood to be Archdeacon Blackburne , wrote his Remarks professedly upon the Life by John- son ... write with more candour and discrimination ; occasionally ton . also he can notice calmly the weak points 26 PREFACE .
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... writer , a good critic holds the second rank in the republic of letters . And if the pious and learned Bishop of Thessalonica has gained immortal honour by his notes upon Homer , it can be no dis- credit to a graver Divine than myself ...
... writer , a good critic holds the second rank in the republic of letters . And if the pious and learned Bishop of Thessalonica has gained immortal honour by his notes upon Homer , it can be no dis- credit to a graver Divine than myself ...
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Page 213 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 2 - 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 ; That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 7 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 6 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 19 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 251 - Unargued I obey: So God ordains: God is thy law, thou mine: To know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
Page 146 - Or of the eternal co-eternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate. Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 113 - And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
Page 151 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine...
Page 127 - Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere He rules a moment : Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.