Milton's Paradise Lost: With Copious Notes, Explanatory and Critical, Partly Selected from the Various Commentators, and Partly OriginalR. Clay, Bread Street Hill for] Samuel Holdsworth, Amen Corner, Paternoster Row., 1840 - 470 pages |
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Page iii
... Poet . But , independently of your Lordship's personal eminence , the literary association of the name of Egerton with that of Milton , the poet - for it is one of the many signal honours of your old and noble line , that your ancestors ...
... Poet . But , independently of your Lordship's personal eminence , the literary association of the name of Egerton with that of Milton , the poet - for it is one of the many signal honours of your old and noble line , that your ancestors ...
Page v
... poem in our language , or of modern ages ; while most of the eminent literati contend for its supremacy over any poem in any language , or age ; though it is a work now more generally read and esteemed , than any other poetic work ever ...
... poem in our language , or of modern ages ; while most of the eminent literati contend for its supremacy over any poem in any language , or age ; though it is a work now more generally read and esteemed , than any other poetic work ever ...
Page vi
... poem , embodying , often the words , and sometimes the essence of whatever I could find practically instructive in all the previous editions , and commentaries , together with the subsidiary remarks that I have been compiling , during a ...
... poem , embodying , often the words , and sometimes the essence of whatever I could find practically instructive in all the previous editions , and commentaries , together with the subsidiary remarks that I have been compiling , during a ...
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... poem was ever pub- lished from which the reader can , independently of pleasure , derive more solid , useful , and permanent instruction , and therefore more advantage . Besides the delight to be gained from his poetry , and the ...
... poem was ever pub- lished from which the reader can , independently of pleasure , derive more solid , useful , and permanent instruction , and therefore more advantage . Besides the delight to be gained from his poetry , and the ...
Page x
... Poetic translations ( especially if in rhyme ) of the ancient authors are never faithful ; they are decorative ... poem , I imagine the reader will find convenient . I have also occasionally used the dash ( thus ) between members of a ...
... Poetic translations ( especially if in rhyme ) of the ancient authors are never faithful ; they are decorative ... poem , I imagine the reader will find convenient . I have also occasionally used the dash ( thus ) between members of a ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Æneid Alcinous Almighty ancient angels beast beauty behold Bentley bliss bright call'd called Cherubim Cicero classical cloud comma creatures dark death delight divine earth edition eternal Euripides evil expression eyes fair Fairy Queen Father fire fruit glory gods grace Greek happy hast hath heaven heavenly hell Hesiod hill Homer honour Iliad imitation Jupiter king Latin light live Livy Lord Lord Monboddo means Milton mind morning nature Newton night o'er Ovid pain Paradise Lost passage Pearce poem poetic poets Psalm return'd round Satan says Scripture seem'd sense serpent Shakspeare sight soon spake spirits stars stood sweet taste thee thence things thou thought throne tion tree trochee verb verse viii Virg Virgil winds wings words δε εν μεν τε