Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 - English poetry |
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... fhould be addreffed only to the most worthy , to Lord Sommers , or One like Him a judge and patron of arts , and illuftrious both in the commonwealth of men and the commonwealth of letters . A 2 But But this edition hath a peculiar ...
... fhould be addreffed only to the most worthy , to Lord Sommers , or One like Him a judge and patron of arts , and illuftrious both in the commonwealth of men and the commonwealth of letters . A 2 But But this edition hath a peculiar ...
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... fhould be deficient and inferior to feveral of them in the fifter art of painting . Milton was ever a favorite poet with Your Lordship . You confidered him always as a claffic author in English , and were defirous to have him published ...
... fhould be deficient and inferior to feveral of them in the fifter art of painting . Milton was ever a favorite poet with Your Lordship . You confidered him always as a claffic author in English , and were defirous to have him published ...
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... fhould dread Your great abilities , if I did not love more Your can- dor and good - nature : and no wonder that You have fo much a finer tafte than other great men , as You are fo much a finer writer , and if I may be allowed to mention ...
... fhould dread Your great abilities , if I did not love more Your can- dor and good - nature : and no wonder that You have fo much a finer tafte than other great men , as You are fo much a finer writer , and if I may be allowed to mention ...
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... fhould be calumniated and abused by the contrary party . He was defigned by his parents for holy orders ; and among the manufcripts of Trinity College in Cambridge there are two draughts in Milton's own hand of a letter to a friend ...
... fhould be calumniated and abused by the contrary party . He was defigned by his parents for holy orders ; and among the manufcripts of Trinity College in Cambridge there are two draughts in Milton's own hand of a letter to a friend ...
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... a dainty piece of entertainment , that came there- " with ; wherein I fhould much commend the tra- gical part , if the lyrical did not ravish with a << cc certain " certain Doric delicacy in Your fongs and odes , viii The LIFE of MILTON .
... a dainty piece of entertainment , that came there- " with ; wherein I fhould much commend the tra- gical part , if the lyrical did not ravish with a << cc certain " certain Doric delicacy in Your fongs and odes , viii The LIFE of MILTON .
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Page 39 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell...
Page 33 - Lie thus astonished on the oblivious pool, And call them not to share with us their part In this unhappy mansion, or once more, With rallied arms, to try what may be yet Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?
Page 32 - Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page xii - ... there), met with acceptance above what was looked for; and other things, which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them, were received with written encomiums, which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps...
Page 144 - Whence and what art thou, execrable shape! That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates? through them I mean to pass, That be assured, without leave asked of thee: Retire, or taste thy folly; and learn by proof, Hell-born! not to contend with spirits of Heaven!
Page 254 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 354 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page xciii - Besides, it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction, as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it. But as for Milton, he had not only a very few circumstances upon which to raise his poem, but was also obliged to proceed with the greatest caution in every thing that he added out of his own invention.
Page 398 - Hear, all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers ; Hear my decree, which unrevoked shall stand. This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son, and on this holy hill Him have anointed, whom ye now behold At my right hand; your head I him appoint; And by myself have sworn, to him shall bow All knees in heaven, and shall confess him Lord...
Page 307 - Unargued I obey, so GOD ordains; GOD is thy law, thou mine; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.