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Page vii
... ' Life , p . 9. Toland's Life was published in 1698 with Milton's prose works ; separately in 1699 : and by Mr. T. Hollis in 1761 . many years after the death of the Poet ; and ADVERTISEMENT . VII On his being arrived to the age of twenty-
... ' Life , p . 9. Toland's Life was published in 1698 with Milton's prose works ; separately in 1699 : and by Mr. T. Hollis in 1761 . many years after the death of the Poet ; and ADVERTISEMENT . VII On his being arrived to the age of twenty-
Page viii
... . A very few have escaped even him . Peck's new Life of Milton was published in 1740 , an abstract of its con- tents will be seen in a note in this Life , p . xvi . cism attached to it , have excited so much dis- VIII ADVERTISEMENT .
... . A very few have escaped even him . Peck's new Life of Milton was published in 1740 , an abstract of its con- tents will be seen in a note in this Life , p . xvi . cism attached to it , have excited so much dis- VIII ADVERTISEMENT .
Page xii
... published on Para- dise Lost appear to have been selected from that copy of Tonson's Milton , once belonging to him , which I now possess ; and much as his violence and rashness of conjecture has been blamed , the public has yet to ...
... published on Para- dise Lost appear to have been selected from that copy of Tonson's Milton , once belonging to him , which I now possess ; and much as his violence and rashness of conjecture has been blamed , the public has yet to ...
Page xiii
... published , are partly designed to prove , that Bent- ley did not generally attempt to substitute the actual and genuine words of Milton in the place of the fictitious and adulterated text ( v . Book viii . 653 ) ; but only to restore ...
... published , are partly designed to prove , that Bent- ley did not generally attempt to substitute the actual and genuine words of Milton in the place of the fictitious and adulterated text ( v . Book viii . 653 ) ; but only to restore ...
Page xiv
... published after the author's death ; and poor Milton , in that condition , with sixty years ' weight upon his shoulders , might be reckoned half dead .'- The whole of this visionary fabric seems to have been built by Bentley on the slen ...
... published after the author's death ; and poor Milton , in that condition , with sixty years ' weight upon his shoulders , might be reckoned half dead .'- The whole of this visionary fabric seems to have been built by Bentley on the slen ...
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Page 14 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 113 - 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 139 - 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 cxxxviii - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Page 49 - A pillar of state ; deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone Majestic, though in ruin : sage he stood, With Atlantean shoulders fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies ; his look Drew audience and attention still as night, Or summer's noontide air...
Page 64 - For each seem'd either: black it stood as night, Fierce as ten furies, terrible as Hell, And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Page 126 - So hand in hand they pass'd, the loveliest pair, That ever since in love's embraces met; Adam the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.
Page 115 - Me miserable ! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair? Which way I fly is Hell ; myself am Hell ; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep, Still threat'ning to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 32 - As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes. Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet...
Page 124 - Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall, Godlike erect, with native honour clad In naked majesty, seem'd lords of all ; And worthy seem'd : for in their looks divine The image of their glorious Maker shone, Truth, wisdom, sanctitude severe and pure, Severe, but in true filial freedom...