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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... painful occurrence was soon succeeded by another , still more distressing - his own deprivation of sight . In these melancholy circumstances , he directed his attention to another subject , and was married to the daughter of a Captain ...
... painful occurrence was soon succeeded by another , still more distressing - his own deprivation of sight . In these melancholy circumstances , he directed his attention to another subject , and was married to the daughter of a Captain ...
Page xv
... pain which it overpowers . There is something kindling and ennobling in the conscious- ness , however awakened , of the energy which resides in mind ; and many a virtuous man has borrowed new strength from the force , constancy , and ...
... pain which it overpowers . There is something kindling and ennobling in the conscious- ness , however awakened , of the energy which resides in mind ; and many a virtuous man has borrowed new strength from the force , constancy , and ...
Page xvi
... pain . But there is another topic which we cannot leave untouched . From Hell we flee to Paradise , a region as lovely as Hell is terrible , and which to those who do not know the universality of true genius , will appear doubly ...
... pain . But there is another topic which we cannot leave untouched . From Hell we flee to Paradise , a region as lovely as Hell is terrible , and which to those who do not know the universality of true genius , will appear doubly ...
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... pain , worn with toil , tired of tumult , sick at the sight of guilt , wounded in its love , baffled in its hope , and trembling in its faith , almost longs for the wings of a dove , that it might fly away , ' and take refuge amidst the ...
... pain , worn with toil , tired of tumult , sick at the sight of guilt , wounded in its love , baffled in its hope , and trembling in its faith , almost longs for the wings of a dove , that it might fly away , ' and take refuge amidst the ...
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... pain Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay , Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate : At once , as far as angels ken , he views The dismal situation , waste and wild ; A dungeon ...
... pain Torments him : round he throws his baleful eyes , That witness'd huge affliction and dismay , Mix'd with obdurate pride and stedfast hate : At once , as far as angels ken , he views The dismal situation , waste and wild ; A dungeon ...
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