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 1W. Baxter, 1824 |
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Page lxxii
... speak in its favour if he liked it , for the impression lay on his hands as waste paper . The Earl having read it sent it to Dryden , who in a short time returned it with this answer , " This man cuts us all out and the ancients too ...
... speak in its favour if he liked it , for the impression lay on his hands as waste paper . The Earl having read it sent it to Dryden , who in a short time returned it with this answer , " This man cuts us all out and the ancients too ...
Page lxxxiv
... speak- ing of our author's having no monument , says , that " he " desired a friend to inquire at St. Giles's Church ; " where the sexton showed him a small monument , " which he said was supposed to be Milton's ; but the " inscription ...
... speak- ing of our author's having no monument , says , that " he " desired a friend to inquire at St. Giles's Church ; " where the sexton showed him a small monument , " which he said was supposed to be Milton's ; but the " inscription ...
Page xci
... . His youngest daughter Debo- rah , ( Mrs. Clarke , ) when speak- ing of him , many years after his death , to the numerous inquirers whom his fame brought to her , His merits indeed were singular ; for he was a LIFE OF MILTON . xci.
... . His youngest daughter Debo- rah , ( Mrs. Clarke , ) when speak- ing of him , many years after his death , to the numerous inquirers whom his fame brought to her , His merits indeed were singular ; for he was a LIFE OF MILTON . xci.
Page cxxv
... speaking to his wife Elizabeth Milton the party producent in this cause , et aliter nescit . Ad tertium Interr . respondet , that the deceased when hee declared the words pre - deposed was then at dinner with his wife the party ...
... speaking to his wife Elizabeth Milton the party producent in this cause , et aliter nescit . Ad tertium Interr . respondet , that the deceased when hee declared the words pre - deposed was then at dinner with his wife the party ...
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... ( speaking to " his wife Elizabeth Milton , for soe hee usually called her , ) " I see thou wilt performe according to thy promise in pro- viding mee such dishes as I think fitt whilst I live , and when " I dye thou knowest that I have ...
... ( speaking to " his wife Elizabeth Milton , for soe hee usually called her , ) " I see thou wilt performe according to thy promise in pro- viding mee such dishes as I think fitt whilst I live , and when " I dye thou knowest that I have ...
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Page 213 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 2 - Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support ; That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 7 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 6 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 19 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 251 - Unargued I obey: So God ordains: God is thy law, thou mine: To know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
Page 146 - Or of the eternal co-eternal 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 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 113 - And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
Page 151 - Tunes her nocturnal note : 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...
Page 127 - Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere He rules a moment : Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.