The Poems of John MiltonLongmans, 1968 - 1181 pages |
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Page 873
... virtue tried . So spake domestic Adam in his care And matrimonial love ; but Eve , who thought 320 Less attributed to her faith sincere , Thus her reply with accent sweet renewed . If this be our condition , thus to dwell In narrow ...
... virtue tried . So spake domestic Adam in his care And matrimonial love ; but Eve , who thought 320 Less attributed to her faith sincere , Thus her reply with accent sweet renewed . If this be our condition , thus to dwell In narrow ...
Page 874
... virtue unassayed Alone , without exterior help sustained ? Let us not then suspect our happy state Left so imperfect by the maker wise , As not secure to single or combined ; 340 Frail is our happiness , if this be so , And Eden were no ...
... virtue unassayed Alone , without exterior help sustained ? Let us not then suspect our happy state Left so imperfect by the maker wise , As not secure to single or combined ; 340 Frail is our happiness , if this be so , And Eden were no ...
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... virtue is given fourth place , because the tetrad is a form of the tetraktys , which in Pythagorean symbolism is the fountain of virtue . Significantly , this puts virtue in the sovereign central place , so that we might say of Adam ...
... virtue is given fourth place , because the tetrad is a form of the tetraktys , which in Pythagorean symbolism is the fountain of virtue . Significantly , this puts virtue in the sovereign central place , so that we might say of Adam ...
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On the Death of a Fair 14 In Eandem On the Same | 7 |
Mansus Manso Bibliothecarium To John | 59 |
Naturam non pati senium | 61 |
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Adam Adam and Eve angels Apollo Bartas Bridg bright called chariot Christ Columbia xv comma Comus darkness Date daughter death devils divine doctrina doth Du Bartas earth Echoes Elegia Empson Entertainment at Althorp Euripides evil eyes fair fall father Faunus flowers God's goddess gods golden grace Greek hand hast hath head headnote heaven heavenly hell Hesiod holy Homer honour Horace Il Penseroso Jove king L'Allegro Lady Latin light lines Lord Lycidas meaning Midsummer Night's Dream mihi Milton Muses night nymphs Odes Ovid Paradise Lost passage perhaps Phoebus poem poet poetry refers rhyme Samson Satan sense Shakespeare shepherd sing song Sonnet soul Spenser spirits stars suggests sweet Sylvester symbol text followed thee Theocritus things thou thought throne tibi tree Trin verse viii Virgil virtue winds wings word Yale