The Poetical Works of John Milton with a Life of the Author: Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem; Notes Critical and Explanatory; and Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost; and a Verbal Index to All the PoemsSampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1865 - 688 pages |
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... hope it may be thought with such taste , as a work like this demands . It would have been easy to swell these to any extent ; but a book is not always valuable in proportion to its size , and my great aim in preparing this edition of ...
... hope it may be thought with such taste , as a work like this demands . It would have been easy to swell these to any extent ; but a book is not always valuable in proportion to its size , and my great aim in preparing this edition of ...
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... hope yet of regaining heaven , but tells them lastly of a new world and a new kind of creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven : for that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the ...
... hope yet of regaining heaven , but tells them lastly of a new world and a new kind of creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven : for that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the ...
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... hope never comes , That comes to all ; but torture without end of Milton from all others . In other works of imagination , the difficulty lies in giving sufficient elevation to the sub- jeet : here it lies in raising the imagina- tion ...
... hope never comes , That comes to all ; but torture without end of Milton from all others . In other works of imagination , the difficulty lies in giving sufficient elevation to the sub- jeet : here it lies in raising the imagina- tion ...
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... hope And hazard in the glorious enterprize , 70 75 80 85 Join'd with me once , now misery hath join'd 90 In equal ruin : into what pit thou seest , From what highth fallen : so much the stronger prov'd He with his thunder ; and till ...
... hope And hazard in the glorious enterprize , 70 75 80 85 Join'd with me once , now misery hath join'd 90 In equal ruin : into what pit thou seest , From what highth fallen : so much the stronger prov'd He with his thunder ; and till ...
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... hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war , Irreconcileable to our grand Foe , Who now triumphs , and in the excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of heaven . So spake the apostate angel , though in pain , Vaunting ...
... hope resolve To wage by force or guile eternal war , Irreconcileable to our grand Foe , Who now triumphs , and in the excess of joy Sole reigning holds the tyranny of heaven . So spake the apostate angel , though in pain , Vaunting ...
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Adam Adam and Eve ancient angels Arethuse arms beautiful behold bliss bright BRYDGES call'd clouds Comus Dagon dark death deep delight divine dread dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair Father fear fruit glory gods grace hand happy hath heart heaven heavenly hell highth hill honour Il Penseroso King L'Allegro less light live Lord Lycidas Messiah Milton mind morning night nymph o'er Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass'd peace Philistines poem poet poetical poetry praise reign replied return'd round Samson Samson Agonistes Satan Saviour seat seem'd serpent shade shalt sight Son of God song SONNET soon soul spake spirits stars stood strength sublime sweet taste thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tion tree turn'd vex'd virtue voice WARTON whence winds wings wonder words
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Page 458 - Through the dear might of Him that walk'd the waves, Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love.
Page 463 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe...
Page 466 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 466 - And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 67 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, 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 405 - 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 66 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?
Page 232 - This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 66 - Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — -dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the Sun, Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising World of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite...
Page 464 - Through the sweet-briar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine ; While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, 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.