The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Memoir, Introductions, Notes, and an Essay on Milton's English and Versification, Volume 2Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... thee I call , But with no friendly voice , and add thy name , O Sun , to tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere , Till pride and worse ambition threw me ...
... thee I call , But with no friendly voice , and add thy name , O Sun , to tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere , Till pride and worse ambition threw me ...
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... thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize ; Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease , And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so strong , so equal , and so soft . The bird named from the Paradise you sing So ...
... thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize ; Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease , And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so strong , so equal , and so soft . The bird named from the Paradise you sing So ...
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... while I meant to praise thee , must commena . Thy verse , created , like thy theme sublime , In number , weight , and measure , needs not rime . A. M. THE VERSE . THE measure is English heroic verse without 64 COMMENDATORY VERSES .
... while I meant to praise thee , must commena . Thy verse , created , like thy theme sublime , In number , weight , and measure , needs not rime . A. M. THE VERSE . THE measure is English heroic verse without 64 COMMENDATORY VERSES .
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... thee yet by deeds What it intends , till first I know of thee What thing thou art , thus double - formed , and why , In this infernal vale first met , thou call'st Me father , and that phantasm call'st my son . I know thee not , nor ...
... thee yet by deeds What it intends , till first I know of thee What thing thou art , thus double - formed , and why , In this infernal vale first met , thou call'st Me father , and that phantasm call'st my son . I know thee not , nor ...
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... thee in Heaven , and joys Then sweet , now sad to mention , through dire change Befallen us unforeseen , unthought - of - know , 821 I come no enemy , but to set free From out this dark and dismal house of pain Both him and thee , and ...
... thee in Heaven , and joys Then sweet , now sad to mention , through dire change Befallen us unforeseen , unthought - of - know , 821 I come no enemy , but to set free From out this dark and dismal house of pain Both him and thee , and ...
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Page 88 - Heaven by many a towered structure high, Where sceptred Angels held their residence, And sat as Princes, whom the supreme King Exalted to such power, and gave to rule, Each in his hierarchy, the Orders bright. Nor was his name unheard or unadored In ancient Greece ; and in Ausonian land Men called him Mulciber ; and how he fell 740 From Heaven they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day, and with the setting...
Page 123 - Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 178 - Angels for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing — ye in Heaven ; On Earth join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Page 70 - Innumerable force of Spirits armed, That durst dislike his reign, and, me preferring, His utmost power with adverse power opposed In dubious battle on the plains of heaven, And shook his throne. What though the field be lost? All is not lost — the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome.
Page 19 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Page 277 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 178 - His praise, who out of darkness call'd up light. Air, and ye elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise. Ye mists and exhalations that now rise From hill or steaming lake, dusky or gray, Till the sun paint your fleecy skirts with gold, In honour to the world's great Author rise, Whether to deck with clouds th' uncolour'd sky, Or wet the thirsty...
Page 161 - Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening
Page 295 - But such as, at this day, to Indians known; In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between...
Page 68 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos: or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme...