The Poetical Works of John MiltonMacmillan and Company, limited, 1917 - 625 pages |
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... Earth or he Starry Universe to which it belongs , universal space is to be considered , / tccording to the requisites of the poem , not as containing stars or starry ystems at all , but as , so to say , a sphere of infinite radius ...
... Earth or he Starry Universe to which it belongs , universal space is to be considered , / tccording to the requisites of the poem , not as containing stars or starry ystems at all , but as , so to say , a sphere of infinite radius ...
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... Earth that hung close by the Moon ' as one of the most " wonderfully beautiful and poetical passages of the poem . But it is more wonderfully beautiful and poetical than Addison thought . For , as even a correct reading of the passage ...
... Earth that hung close by the Moon ' as one of the most " wonderfully beautiful and poetical passages of the poem . But it is more wonderfully beautiful and poetical than Addison thought . For , as even a correct reading of the passage ...
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... Earth was the fixed centre of the Mundane Universe , and the apparent motions of the other celestial bodies were caused by the real revolutions of successive Heavens , or Spheres of Space , enclosing the central Earth at different ...
... Earth was the fixed centre of the Mundane Universe , and the apparent motions of the other celestial bodies were caused by the real revolutions of successive Heavens , or Spheres of Space , enclosing the central Earth at different ...
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... Earth at different distances , and wheeling round it in a complex combination of their separate motions , retained its prevalence in the popular mind of Europe , and even in the scientific world , till the end of the seventeenth century ...
... Earth at different distances , and wheeling round it in a complex combination of their separate motions , retained its prevalence in the popular mind of Europe , and even in the scientific world , till the end of the seventeenth century ...
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... Earth moves , and the Heavens " stand still . ' " There cannot be a more distinct proof than this incidental passage affords , of the utter repulsiveness of the Copernican theory to even the educated English intellect as late as the ...
... Earth moves , and the Heavens " stand still . ' " There cannot be a more distinct proof than this incidental passage affords , of the utter repulsiveness of the Copernican theory to even the educated English intellect as late as the ...
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Page 385 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 11 - 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 rhyming 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 535 - ON HIS BEING ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th. Perhaps my semblance might deceive the truth That I to manhood am arrived so near; And inward ripeness doth much less appear, That some more timely-happy spirits endu'th. Yet, be it less or more, or soon or slow, It shall be still in strictest measure even To that same lot,...
Page 426 - Mindless of its just honours ; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart ; the melody Of this small lute gave ease to Petrarch's wound ; — A thousand times this pipe did Tasso sound ; With it Camoens soothed an exile's grief ; The Sonnet glittered a gay myrtle leaf Amid the cypress with which Dante crowned His visionary brow : a glow-worm lamp, It cheered mild Spenser, called from Faery-land To struggle through dark ways ; and when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand The Thing...
Page 100 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King!
Page 493 - And to the stack, or the barn-door Stoutly struts his dames before : Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill...
Page 493 - Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrowed land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 41 - OF MAN'S first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, Heavenly 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...
Page 533 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 113 - 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 mild...