The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the AuthorBooksellers, 1829 - 375 pages |
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... Hath lost us heaven ; and all this mighty host In horrible destruction laid thus low , As far as gods and heavenly ... hath recall'd His ministers of vengeance and pursuit Back to the gates of heaven : the sulphurous hail , Shot after us ...
... Hath lost us heaven ; and all this mighty host In horrible destruction laid thus low , As far as gods and heavenly ... hath recall'd His ministers of vengeance and pursuit Back to the gates of heaven : the sulphurous hail , Shot after us ...
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... hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep . Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe . Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild , The seat of ...
... hath spent his shafts , and ceases now To bellow through the vast and boundless deep . Let us not slip the occasion , whether scorn Or satiate fury yield it from our foe . Seest thou yon dreary plain , forlorn and wild , The seat of ...
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... hath equall'd , force hath made supreme Above his equals . Farewell , happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells ! Hail horrors ! hail Infernal world ! and thou profoundest hell , Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to ...
... hath equall'd , force hath made supreme Above his equals . Farewell , happy fields , Where joy for ever dwells ! Hail horrors ! hail Infernal world ! and thou profoundest hell , Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to ...
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... hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free ; the Almighty bath not built Here for his envy , will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure ; and , in my choice , To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Better to reign ...
... hath made greater ? Here at least We shall be free ; the Almighty bath not built Here for his envy , will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure ; and , in my choice , To reign is worth ambition , though in hell : Better to reign ...
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... Hath vex'd the Red Sea coast , whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry , While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen , who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot ...
... Hath vex'd the Red Sea coast , whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry , While with perfidious hatred they pursued The sojourners of Goshen , who beheld From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot ...
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Page 35 - Hell-doom'd, and breath'st defiance here and scorn, Where I reign king, and, to enrage thee more, Thy king and lord? Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy lingering, or, with one stroke of this dart, Strange horror seize thee, and pangs unfelt before.
Page 315 - Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon When she deserts the night, Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 85 - But know, that in the soul Are many lesser faculties, that serve Reason as chief ; among these, fancy next Her office holds ; of all external things, Which the five watchful senses represent, She forms imaginations, airy shapes, Which reason, joining or disjoining, frames All what we affirm or what deny, and call Our knowledge or opinion ; then retires Into her private cell when nature rests.
Page 16 - Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured: as when the sun new risen Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 125 - Urania, and fit audience find, though few. But drive far off the barbarous dissonance Of Bacchus and his revellers, the race Of that wild rout that tore the Thracian bard In Rhodope, where woods and rocks had ears To rapture, till the savage clamour drown'd Both harp and voice ; nor could the muse defend Her son. So fail not thou, who thee implores; For thou art heavenly, she an empty dream.
Page 206 - His hand to execute what his decree Fix'd on this day? Why do I overlive? Why am I mock'd with death, and lengthen'd out To deathless pain ? How gladly would I meet Mortality my sentence, and be earth Insensible ! How glad would lay me down, As in my mother's lap ? There I should rest, And sleep secure...
Page 265 - And now by some strong motion I am led Into this wilderness, to what intent I learn not yet : perhaps I need not know ; For what concerns my knowledge God reveals.
Page 142 - Or, if they list to try Conjecture, he his fabric of the Heavens Hath left to their disputes — perhaps to move His laughter at their quaint opinions wide Hereafter, when they come to model Heaven, And calculate the stars; how they will wield The mighty frame; how build, unbuild, contrive To save appearances; how gird the Sphere With Centric and Eccentric scribbled o'er, Cycle and Epicycle, orb in orb.
Page 4 - Extort from me. To bow and sue for grace With suppliant knee, and deify his power Who from the terror of this arm so late Doubted his empire, that were low indeed; That were an ignominy and shame beneath...
Page 154 - In loving thou dost well, in passion not, Wherein true love consists not. Love refines The thoughts, and heart enlarges ; hath his seat In reason, and is judicious ; is the scale By which to heavenly love thou may'st ascend, Not sunk in carnal pleasure ; for which cause, Among the beasts no mate for thee was found.
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed the Life of the Author |
| Author | John Milton |
| Publisher | Booksellers, 1829 |
| Original from | the Complutense University of Madrid |
| Digitized | Apr 28, 2008 |
| Length | 375 pages |
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