The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton, Volume 2W. Baxter, 1824 |
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... soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclos'd Their callow young , but feather'd soon and fledge 420 They summ'd their pens , and soaring th ' air sublime With clang despis'd the ground , under a cloud In prospect ; there the eagle ...
... soon Bursting with kindly rupture forth disclos'd Their callow young , but feather'd soon and fledge 420 They summ'd their pens , and soaring th ' air sublime With clang despis'd the ground , under a cloud In prospect ; there the eagle ...
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... soon fill 205 210 Though pleasant , but thy words with grace divine 215 Imbued , bring to their sweetness no satiety . shining passages in the dialogue between Adam and the angel . The first is that wherein our ancestor gives an account ...
... soon fill 205 210 Though pleasant , but thy words with grace divine 215 Imbued , bring to their sweetness no satiety . shining passages in the dialogue between Adam and the angel . The first is that wherein our ancestor gives an account ...
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... Soon dried , and on the reaking moisture fed . Straight toward heav'n my wond'ring eyes I turn'd , And gaz'd a while the ample sky , till rais'd 260 By quick instinctive motion up I sprung , As. 253. As new wak'd from soundest sleep & c ...
... Soon dried , and on the reaking moisture fed . Straight toward heav'n my wond'ring eyes I turn'd , And gaz'd a while the ample sky , till rais'd 260 By quick instinctive motion up I sprung , As. 253. As new wak'd from soundest sleep & c ...
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... soon his clear aspect Return'd , and gracious purpose thus renew'd . Not only these fair bounds , but all the earth To thee and to thy race I give ; as lords Possess it , and all things that therein live , Or live in sea , or air ...
... soon his clear aspect Return'd , and gracious purpose thus renew'd . Not only these fair bounds , but all the earth To thee and to thy race I give ; as lords Possess it , and all things that therein live , Or live in sea , or air ...
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... soon prove Tedious alike : of fellowship I speak Such as I seek , fit to participate All rational delight , wherein the brute Cannot be human consort ; they rejoice Each with their kind , lion with lioness ; So fitly them in pairs thou ...
... soon prove Tedious alike : of fellowship I speak Such as I seek , fit to participate All rational delight , wherein the brute Cannot be human consort ; they rejoice Each with their kind , lion with lioness ; So fitly them in pairs thou ...
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Page 163 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 271 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 59 - He telleth the number of the stars ; he calleth them all by their names.
Page 378 - I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heav'n, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
Page 62 - To ask or search, I blame thee not; for heaven Is as the book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous works...
Page 106 - I now must change Those notes to tragic ; foul distrust, and breach Disloyal on the part of man, revolt, And disobedience : on the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste, Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given ; That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and misery Death's harbinger.
Page 296 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 178 - And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Page 396 - 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?
Page 111 - Nor skill'd nor studious, higher argument "Remains ; sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years damp my intended wing Depress'd ; and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers, who brings it nightly to my ear.