Paradise Lost, Books 1-2Leach, Shewell, and Sanborn, 1896 - 210 pages |
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... Latin poem to Manso , and his Epitaphium Damonis that his subject should be taken from the legendary history of Britain , and should in- clude the romance of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table . Suddenly , however , this decision ...
... Latin poem to Manso , and his Epitaphium Damonis that his subject should be taken from the legendary history of Britain , and should in- clude the romance of Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table . Suddenly , however , this decision ...
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... Latin Secretary , and writing occasional letters , in Cromwell's name , to foreign states and princes . . . As the Great Plague was then [ 1665 ] raging in London , Milton had removed from his house in Artillery Walk to a cottage at ...
... Latin Secretary , and writing occasional letters , in Cromwell's name , to foreign states and princes . . . As the Great Plague was then [ 1665 ] raging in London , Milton had removed from his house in Artillery Walk to a cottage at ...
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... Latin tongue . Laboriously every day , with a due division of his time from early morning , he pursued these tasks , by a systematic use of assistants whom he kept about him . As at the time when the composition of Paradise Lost was ...
... Latin tongue . Laboriously every day , with a due division of his time from early morning , he pursued these tasks , by a systematic use of assistants whom he kept about him . As at the time when the composition of Paradise Lost was ...
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... Latin , in which his subject , or some portion of it , had been previously treated . He was very likely to do so , and to take any hint he could get . It would not be difficult to prove , at any rate , that , among the select readings ...
... Latin , in which his subject , or some portion of it , had been previously treated . He was very likely to do so , and to take any hint he could get . It would not be difficult to prove , at any rate , that , among the select readings ...
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... Latin , and will never learn those languages . If this host of readers are ever to gain any sense of the power and charm of the great poets of antiquity , their way to gain it is not through translations of the ancients , but through ...
... Latin , and will never learn those languages . If this host of readers are ever to gain any sense of the power and charm of the great poets of antiquity , their way to gain it is not through translations of the ancients , but through ...
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Abyss Adam Almighty ancient Angels arms battle Beelzebub Belial Ben Jonson Bible bright called Chaos Chimæra Chorus Cicero Comus Dante darkness Death deep Define Demogorgon divine dread earth Edited English epic Eternal evil Exod fate fear fierce fiery fire flames force glory gods gold Greek hath Heaven heavenly Hell Hesiod highth Homer host Iliad infernal King Landor Latin light literature Lord Lowell Mammon meaning mighty Milton mind Moloch Night o'er once Ormus Ovid pain Paradise Lost passage perhaps poem poet poetic poetry Prometheus Bound prose reign revenge rock round Satan says sense Seraphim Shak Shakespeare sound spear speech Spenser Spirits stood style sublime Tartarus Tasso Thammuz thee thence Theog things thou thought throne thunder tion Transferred epithet translation verb verse Virgil winds wings word Zeus
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Page 38 - 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 62 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell; Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 53 - That shepherd who first taught the chosen seed, In the beginning how the heavens and earth Rose out of chaos...
Page 101 - Others apart sat on a hill retired, In thoughts more elevate, and reasoned high Of providence, foreknowledge, will, and fate, Fixed fate, free will, foreknowledge absolute, And found no end, in wandering mazes lost...
Page 181 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 105 - The other Shape — If shape it might be called that shape had none Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb...
Page 102 - Beyond this flood a frozen continent Lies, dark and wild, beat with perpetual storms Of whirlwind and dire hail ; which on firm land Thaws not, but gathers heap, and ruin seems Of ancient pile ; all else deep snow and ice...
Page 70 - With lust and violence the house of God? In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 57 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome? That glory never shall his wrath or might Extort from me.
Page 21 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...