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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... 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.
... 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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... till now . Lincs 2411-264 . SPIRIT . At last a soft and solemn - breathing sound Rose like a stream of rich distill'd perfumes , And stole upon the air , that even Silence Was took ere she was ware , and wish'd she might Deny her nature ...
... till now . Lincs 2411-264 . SPIRIT . At last a soft and solemn - breathing sound Rose like a stream of rich distill'd perfumes , And stole upon the air , that even Silence Was took ere she was ware , and wish'd she might Deny her nature ...
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... till then in the same manner confounded . They rise ; their numbers ; array of battle ; their chief leaders named accord- ing to the idols known afterward in Canaan and the countries adjoining . To these Satan directs his speech ...
... till then in the same manner confounded . They rise ; their numbers ; array of battle ; their chief leaders named accord- ing to the idols known afterward in Canaan and the countries adjoining . To these Satan directs his speech ...
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... till then who knew The force of those dire arms ? Yet not for those , Nor what the potent Victor in his rage Can else inflict , do I repent or change , Though changed in outward lustre , that fix'd mind , And high disdain from sense of ...
... till then who knew The force of those dire arms ? Yet not for those , Nor what the potent Victor in his rage Can else inflict , do I repent or change , Though changed in outward lustre , that fix'd mind , And high disdain from sense of ...
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... till on dry land He lights , if it were land that ever burn'd With solid , as the lake with liquid fire ; And such appear'd in hue , as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of ...
... till on dry land He lights , if it were land that ever burn'd With solid , as the lake with liquid fire ; And such appear'd in hue , as when the force Of subterranean wind transports a hill Torn from Pelorus , or the shatter'd side Of ...
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