The Complete Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life of the Author and Dr. Channing's Essay on the Poetical Genius of MiltonMilner & Sowerby, 1865 - 537 pages |
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... 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 mother Circe with the Sirens three , Amidst the. THE POETICAL GENIUS OF MILTON . xiii.
... 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 mother Circe with the Sirens three , Amidst the. THE POETICAL GENIUS OF MILTON . xiii.
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... dark picture , both suited and designed to blend with our admiration , dread and abhorrence , a measure of that sympathy and inter- est with which every living , thinking being ought to be regarded , and without which , all other ...
... dark picture , both suited and designed to blend with our admiration , dread and abhorrence , a measure of that sympathy and inter- est with which every living , thinking being ought to be regarded , and without which , all other ...
Page xviii
... dark pictures of life ; for he knew by experience , that there is a power in the soul to transmute calamity into an occasion and nutriment of moral power and triumphant virtue . We find nowhere in his writings that whining sensibility ...
... dark pictures of life ; for he knew by experience , that there is a power in the soul to transmute calamity into an occasion and nutriment of moral power and triumphant virtue . We find nowhere in his writings that whining sensibility ...
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... darkness , fitliest called Chaos : here Satan , with his angels , lying on the burning lake , thunder - struck and astonished , after a certain space recovers , as from confusion , calls up him who next in order and dignity lay by him ...
... darkness , fitliest called Chaos : here Satan , with his angels , lying on the burning lake , thunder - struck and astonished , after a certain space recovers , as from confusion , calls up him who next in order and dignity lay by him ...
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... 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 . Say first , for Heaven hides nothing from thy view , Nor the deep tract ...
... 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 . Say first , for Heaven hides nothing from thy view , Nor the deep tract ...
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