The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1J. Forbes & Company no. 78 Gold street., 1815 |
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... be- hind him , his name had been immortal ; but neither the infir- mities of age and constitution , nor the vicissitudes of fortune , could depress the vigour of his mind , or divert viii THE LIFE OF Life of the Author.
... be- hind him , his name had been immortal ; but neither the infir- mities of age and constitution , nor the vicissitudes of fortune , could depress the vigour of his mind , or divert viii THE LIFE OF Life of the Author.
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John Milton. could depress the vigour of his mind , or divert it from exe- tuting a design he had long conceived of writing an heroic poem * . The fall of man was a subject that he had some years before fixed on for a tragedy , which he ...
John Milton. could depress the vigour of his mind , or divert it from exe- tuting a design he had long conceived of writing an heroic poem * . The fall of man was a subject that he had some years before fixed on for a tragedy , which he ...
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... mind , And high disdain from sense of injur'd merit , That with the mightiest rais'd me to contend , And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of spirits arm'd , 100 That durst dislike his reign , and me preferring ...
... mind , And high disdain from sense of injur'd merit , That with the mightiest rais'd me to contend , And to the fierce contention brought along Innumerable force of spirits arm'd , 100 That durst dislike his reign , and me preferring ...
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... mind and spirit remain Invincible , and vigour soon returns , 140 Though all our glory ' extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our conqu❜ror ( whom I now , Of force believe almighty , since no ...
... mind and spirit remain Invincible , and vigour soon returns , 140 Though all our glory ' extinct , and happy state Here swallow'd up in endless misery . But what if he our conqu❜ror ( whom I now , Of force believe almighty , since no ...
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... mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heav'n ; 255 What matter where , if I be still the same 10 BOOK 1 . PARADISE LOST .
... mind not to be chang'd by place or time . The mind is its own place , and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell , a Hell of Heav'n ; 255 What matter where , if I be still the same 10 BOOK 1 . PARADISE LOST .
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Page 18 - With lust and violence the house of God ? In courts and palaces he also reigns And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of ri'ot ascends above their loftiest towers, And...
Page 95 - 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 threatening to devour me opens wide, To which the Hell I suffer seems a Heaven.
Page 67 - 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 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 96 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse ! all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good : by thee at least Divided empire with heaven's King I hold, By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign, As man ere long, and this new world shall know.
Page 50 - Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight : sometimes He scours the right hand coast, sometimes the left ; Now shaves with level wing the deep, then soars Up to the fiery concave towering high. As when far off at sea a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala...
Page 25 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Page 99 - Thence up he flew, and on the tree of life, The middle tree and highest there that grew, Sat like a cormorant...
Page 205 - Last Rose, as in dance, the stately trees, and spread Their branches hung with copious fruit, or...