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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... hand . He has no need of the minute , graphic skill , which we prize in Cowper or Crabbe . With a few strong and delicate touches , he impresses , as it were , his own mind on the scenes which he would describe , and kindles the ...
... hand . He has no need of the minute , graphic skill , which we prize in Cowper or Crabbe . With a few strong and delicate touches , he impresses , as it were , his own mind on the scenes which he would describe , and kindles the ...
Page xiv
... hand soft touching , whisper'd thus : Awake , My fairest , my espoused , my latest found , Heaven's last best gift , my ever new delight , Awake : the morning shines , and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime , to mark how ...
... hand soft touching , whisper'd thus : Awake , My fairest , my espoused , my latest found , Heaven's last best gift , my ever new delight , Awake : the morning shines , and the fresh field Calls us ; we lose the prime , to mark how ...
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... hand the flames Driven backward , slope their pointing spires , and roll'd In billows , leave i ' th ' midst a horrid vale . Ibid . 221-224 . We have more which we would gladly say of the delineation of Satan ; especially of the ...
... hand the flames Driven backward , slope their pointing spires , and roll'd In billows , leave i ' th ' midst a horrid vale . Ibid . 221-224 . We have more which we would gladly say of the delineation of Satan ; especially of the ...
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... hand the flames , Driven backward , slope their pointing spires , and roll'd In billows , leave in the midst a horrid vale . Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt unusual weight ...
... hand the flames , Driven backward , slope their pointing spires , and roll'd In billows , leave in the midst a horrid vale . Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt unusual weight ...
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... hand was known In heaven by many a tower'd structure high , Where sceptred angels held their residence , And sat as princes ; whom the supreme King bawa Exalted to such power , and gave to rule , Each in his hierarchy , the orders ...
... hand was known In heaven by many a tower'd structure high , Where sceptred angels held their residence , And sat as princes ; whom the supreme King bawa Exalted to such power , and gave to rule , Each in his hierarchy , the orders ...
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