The Poems of John Milton: English, Latin, Greek & Italian, Volume 2at the Florence Press, Chatto & Windus, 1925 - English literature |
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Page vii
... less will content the young student of Homer and Hesiod and Lucretius and Vergil growing conscious of possessing powers of the same order . Milton knew himself too well to be modest , but also too well to be presumptuous or to make too ...
... less will content the young student of Homer and Hesiod and Lucretius and Vergil growing conscious of possessing powers of the same order . Milton knew himself too well to be modest , but also too well to be presumptuous or to make too ...
Page xiii
... less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me , that by labour and intent study , ( which I take to be my portion in this Life ) , join'd with the strong propensity of Nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to ...
... less to an inward prompting which now grew daily upon me , that by labour and intent study , ( which I take to be my portion in this Life ) , join'd with the strong propensity of Nature , I might perhaps leave something so written to ...
Page xviii
... small willingness I endure to inter- rupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these , and leave a calm and pleasing Solitariness , fed with cheerful and con- fident thoughts , to imbark in a troubled Sea of xviii PARADISE LOST.
... small willingness I endure to inter- rupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these , and leave a calm and pleasing Solitariness , fed with cheerful and con- fident thoughts , to imbark in a troubled Sea of xviii PARADISE LOST.
Page xix
... less silence before the sacred Office of speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . Howsoever thus Church - outed by the Prelats , hence may appear the right I have to meddle in these matters , as before the necessity ...
... less silence before the sacred Office of speaking , bought and begun with servitude and forswearing . Howsoever thus Church - outed by the Prelats , hence may appear the right I have to meddle in these matters , as before the necessity ...
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... less as the " Paradise Lost " which we know ) , the great poem of which he had dreamed while still a student at Cambridge , his inner defence against the reproaches of friends or paternal hesitations in the years at Horton , which began ...
... less as the " Paradise Lost " which we know ) , the great poem of which he had dreamed while still a student at Cambridge , his inner defence against the reproaches of friends or paternal hesitations in the years at Horton , which began ...
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Page 11 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 133 - Rising or falling, still advance His praise. His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. Fountains, and ye that warble as ye flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling tune His praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ; ye birds, That singing up to heaven- gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes His praise.
Page 94 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 302 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Page 95 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell ; myself am Hell ; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 67 - Eternal coeternal 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 17 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties, all a summer's day; While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Page xviii - Daughters; but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his Seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 112 - Now glow'd the firmament With living sapphires : Hesperus, that led The starry host, rode brightest, till the moon, Rising in clouded majesty, at length Apparent queen unveil'd her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw.
Page 26 - 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, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.