Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D. ...J. and R. Tonson, B. Dodd, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin [and 8 others in London], 1763 |
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Page xxxvi
... whole Mr. Philips treats Bishop Bram- hall with great feverity as the author of the Apology , thinking probably that fo confiderable an adversary would make the answer more confiderable . Sir Robert Filmer likewife published some ani ...
... whole Mr. Philips treats Bishop Bram- hall with great feverity as the author of the Apology , thinking probably that fo confiderable an adversary would make the answer more confiderable . Sir Robert Filmer likewife published some ani ...
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... whole . This Morus was the fon of a learned Scotchman , who was prefident of the college , which the proteftants had formerly at Caftres in Languedoc ; and he is faid to have been a man of a most haughty difpofition , and immoderately ...
... whole . This Morus was the fon of a learned Scotchman , who was prefident of the college , which the proteftants had formerly at Caftres in Languedoc ; and he is faid to have been a man of a most haughty difpofition , and immoderately ...
Page lvi
... whole right of copy to Brabazon Aylmer the bookfeller for twenty five pounds ; and Aylmer af- terwards fold it to old Jacob Tonfon at two differ- ent times , one half on the 17th of Auguft 1683 , and the other half on the 24th of March ...
... whole right of copy to Brabazon Aylmer the bookfeller for twenty five pounds ; and Aylmer af- terwards fold it to old Jacob Tonfon at two differ- ent times , one half on the 17th of Auguft 1683 , and the other half on the 24th of March ...
Page lxxi
... which no doubt he would have executed to admira- tion . But ( as he fays of himfelf in his poftfcript to the Judgment of Martin Bucer ) " he never could 66 delight " delight in long citations , much lefs in whole The LIFE of MILTON . Ixxi.
... which no doubt he would have executed to admira- tion . But ( as he fays of himfelf in his poftfcript to the Judgment of Martin Bucer ) " he never could 66 delight " delight in long citations , much lefs in whole The LIFE of MILTON . Ixxi.
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... whole " traductions . " And accordingly there are few things , and thofe of no great length , which he has ever tranflated . He was poffeffed too much of an original genius to be a mere copyer . " Whether it " be natural difpofition ...
... whole " traductions . " And accordingly there are few things , and thofe of no great length , which he has ever tranflated . He was poffeffed too much of an original genius to be a mere copyer . " Whether it " be natural difpofition ...
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Page vii - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more.
Page 186 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 414 - By none ; and if not equal all, yet free, Equally free ; for orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist.
Page 31 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Page 256 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 257 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Page 146 - Whence and what art thou, execrable shape! That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates? through them I mean to pass, That be assured, without leave asked of thee: Retire, or taste thy folly; and learn by proof, Hell-born! not to contend with spirits of Heaven!
Page 354 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page 79 - 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 272 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Water'd the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears ; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country...