Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the Text of Tonson's Correct Edition of 1711. A New Edition, with Notes and the Life of the Author, in Three Volumes, by Thomas Newton, ...proprietors, 1795 |
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... Fall of Angels and of Man , the wonderful maze of a wise and beneficent Providence educing Good out of Evil , and restoring the triumph and the reign of Order , Virtue , and Hap- piness , over Confusion , Vice , and Misery- these are ...
... Fall of Angels and of Man , the wonderful maze of a wise and beneficent Providence educing Good out of Evil , and restoring the triumph and the reign of Order , Virtue , and Hap- piness , over Confusion , Vice , and Misery- these are ...
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... Fall of Man ; to tag his lines , as Milton himselfexpressed it , allud- ing to the fashion then of wearing tags of metal at the end of their ribbons . We are told indeed by Mr. Richardson , that Sir George Hungerford , an ancient member ...
... Fall of Man ; to tag his lines , as Milton himselfexpressed it , allud- ing to the fashion then of wearing tags of metal at the end of their ribbons . We are told indeed by Mr. Richardson , that Sir George Hungerford , an ancient member ...
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... falls short of the Iliad or Æneid , in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to be considered in an epic poem is the Fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the action which it relates ...
... falls short of the Iliad or Æneid , in the beauties which are essential to that kind of writing . The first thing to be considered in an epic poem is the Fable , which is perfect or imperfect , according as the action which it relates ...
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... fall of Man , which is the action he proposed to celebrate ; and as for those great actions , the battle of the Angels , and the creation of the world , ( which preceded in point of time , and which in my opinion , would have entirely ...
... fall of Man , which is the action he proposed to celebrate ; and as for those great actions , the battle of the Angels , and the creation of the world , ( which preceded in point of time , and which in my opinion , would have entirely ...
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... fall of Man , has related the fall of those An gels who are his professed enemies . Beside the many other beauties in such an episode , its running parallel with the great action of the poem , hinders it from breaking the unity so much ...
... fall of Man , has related the fall of those An gels who are his professed enemies . Beside the many other beauties in such an episode , its running parallel with the great action of the poem , hinders it from breaking the unity so much ...
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Page 139 - Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heav'nly Muse...
Page 272 - 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 146 - 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 256 - Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else. By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range, by thee Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother first were known.
Page 140 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the...
Page 253 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night, With this her solemn bird, nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet But wherefore all night long shine these?
Page 188 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death ; which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good ; Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons, and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 170 - The way seems difficult and steep to scale With upright wing against a higher foe. Let such bethink them, if the sleepy drench Of that forgetful lake benumb not still, That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse.
Page 165 - Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course ; they, on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear ; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Page 190 - The other shape, If shape it might be call'd that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb ; Or substance might be call'd that shadow seem'd, For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.