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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... night studies , in his younger years , he was accustomed to retire early ( seldom later than nine ) to bed ; and rose commonly before five in the summer , and six in the winter . When blindness restrained him from other exercises , he ...
... night studies , in his younger years , he was accustomed to retire early ( seldom later than nine ) to bed ; and rose commonly before five in the summer , and six in the winter . When blindness restrained him from other exercises , he ...
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... 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 : So stretch'd out huge in length the arch ...
... 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 : So stretch'd out huge in length the arch ...
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... night , and darken'd all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of hell , " Twixt upper , nether , and surrounding fires ; Till , at a signal given , the uplifted spear Of their great ...
... night , and darken'd all the land of Nile : So numberless were those bad angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of hell , " Twixt upper , nether , and surrounding fires ; Till , at a signal given , the uplifted spear Of their great ...
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... night , when he pass'd From Egypt marching , equall'd with one stroke Both her first - born and all her bleating gods . Belial came last , than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven , or more gross to love Vice for itself ; to ...
... night , when he pass'd From Egypt marching , equall'd with one stroke Both her first - born and all her bleating gods . Belial came last , than whom a spirit more lewd Fell not from heaven , or more gross to love Vice for itself ; to ...
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... night Darkens the streets , then wander forth the sons Of Belial , flown with insolence and wine . Witness the streets of Sodom , and that night In Gibeah , when the hospitable door Exposed a matron , to avoid worse rape . These were ...
... night Darkens the streets , then wander forth the sons Of Belial , flown with insolence and wine . Witness the streets of Sodom , and that night In Gibeah , when the hospitable door Exposed a matron , to avoid worse rape . These were ...
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