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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... shade over his milder beauties ; and this it has done not only by being more striking and imposing , but by the tendency of vast mental energy to give a cer- tain calmness to the expression of tenderness and deep feeling . A great mind ...
... shade over his milder beauties ; and this it has done not only by being more striking and imposing , but by the tendency of vast mental energy to give a cer- tain calmness to the expression of tenderness and deep feeling . A great mind ...
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... shades , where peace And rest can never dwell : hope never comes That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed : Such place eternal justice had prepared For ...
... shades , where peace And rest can never dwell : hope never comes That comes to all : but torture without end Still urges , and a fiery deluge , fed With ever - burning sulphur unconsumed : Such place eternal justice had prepared For ...
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... shades , High over - arch'd , imbower ; or scatter'd sedge Afloat , when with fierce winds Orion arm'd Hath vex'd the Red - Sea coast , whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry , While with perfidious hatred they pursued ...
... shades , High over - arch'd , imbower ; or scatter'd sedge Afloat , when with fierce winds Orion arm'd Hath vex'd the Red - Sea coast , whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry , While with perfidious hatred they pursued ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... shade ) , from eastern point Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas , Beyond the horizon ; then from pole to pole He views in breadth , and without longer pause Downright into the world's first region ...
... shade ) , from eastern point Of Libra to the fleecy star that bears Andromeda far off Atlantic seas , Beyond the horizon ; then from pole to pole He views in breadth , and without longer pause Downright into the world's first region ...
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