The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the Author, Volume 1Hilliard, Gray, and Company, 1839 |
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... arm'd , 85 Isaiah , xiv . 12. Virg . Æn . ii . 274 . 95 100 ' Hei mihi ! qualis erat ! quantum mutatus ab illo ! " Newton . 98 high ] Spens . F. Queen . b . i . c . i . s . 19. ' grief , and high dis- dain . ' 1 * That durst dislike his ...
... arm'd , 85 Isaiah , xiv . 12. Virg . Æn . ii . 274 . 95 100 ' Hei mihi ! qualis erat ! quantum mutatus ab illo ! " Newton . 98 high ] Spens . F. Queen . b . i . c . i . s . 19. ' grief , and high dis- dain . ' 1 * That durst dislike his ...
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... arm'd Hath vex'd the Red - sea coast , whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry , 293 mast ] See Lucilii Sat. lib . xv . 1. p . 132 . ، porro huic majus bacillum Quam malus navi in corbita maximus ullâ . ' And Ovid Metam ...
... arm'd Hath vex'd the Red - sea coast , whose waves o'erthrew Busiris and his Memphian chivalry , 293 mast ] See Lucilii Sat. lib . xv . 1. p . 132 . ، porro huic majus bacillum Quam malus navi in corbita maximus ullâ . ' And Ovid Metam ...
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... arm'd , Forerun the royal camp , to trench a field , Or cast a rampart . Mammon led them on , Mammon , the least erected spirit that fell From heaven ; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent , admiring more ...
... arm'd , Forerun the royal camp , to trench a field , Or cast a rampart . Mammon led them on , Mammon , the least erected spirit that fell From heaven ; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent , admiring more ...
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... arm'd , and at the Soldan's chair Defi'd the best of Panim chivalry To mortal combat or career with lance , ) Thick swarm'd , both on the ground and in the air , Brush'd with the hiss of rustling wings . As bees In spring time , when ...
... arm'd , and at the Soldan's chair Defi'd the best of Panim chivalry To mortal combat or career with lance , ) Thick swarm'd , both on the ground and in the air , Brush'd with the hiss of rustling wings . As bees In spring time , when ...
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... Arm'd with hell flames and fury , all at once O'er heaven's high tow'rs to force resistless way , Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the torturer ; when to meet the noise 60 Of his almighty engine he shall hear 65 Infernal ...
... Arm'd with hell flames and fury , all at once O'er heaven's high tow'rs to force resistless way , Turning our tortures into horrid arms Against the torturer ; when to meet the noise 60 Of his almighty engine he shall hear 65 Infernal ...
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Page 137 - 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 mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
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 82 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 159 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 31 - Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Page 61 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Page 159 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 122 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
Page 9 - And reassembling our afflicted powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair.
Page 29 - There went a fame in heaven that he, ere long, Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the sons of heaven : Thither, if but to pry, shall be, perhaps...