The Complete Poems and Major ProseHackett Publishing, 2003 M07 1 - 1088 pages First published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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Page 48
... gods of cities or houses. Lemures: spirits of the dead, who were revered in ancient Rome. 194. Flamens: priests serving any particular Roman diety. 195. So Virgil speaks of the sweating of the god's statues (in Georg. I, 480) as a ...
... gods of cities or houses. Lemures: spirits of the dead, who were revered in ancient Rome. 194. Flamens: priests serving any particular Roman diety. 195. So Virgil speaks of the sweating of the god's statues (in Georg. I, 480) as a ...
Page 57
... Gods I, ii, as a man of vast age, coeval with Demogorgon and Chaos, and living in a remote cave where the gods themselves can never come. Boccaccio's source was Claudian On Stilicho's Consulship, 424–40. 11. The myth of the birth of ...
... Gods I, ii, as a man of vast age, coeval with Demogorgon and Chaos, and living in a remote cave where the gods themselves can never come. Boccaccio's source was Claudian On Stilicho's Consulship, 424–40. 11. The myth of the birth of ...
Page 183
... God's worship by masquerading as the gods of the pagan world. Richard Hooker put the matter succinctly in The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: “The fall of the angels was pride. Since their fall, . . . being dispersed, some in the air ...
... God's worship by masquerading as the gods of the pagan world. Richard Hooker put the matter succinctly in The Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity: “The fall of the angels was pride. Since their fall, . . . being dispersed, some in the air ...
Page 184
... gods, some as nymphs” (I, iv, 3). The belief plays a momentary part in Vondel's Lucifer when Lucifer says to his followers: I shall exalt my haughty tyranny, And ye, my sons, shall be adored as gods. At altars in high temples without ...
... gods, some as nymphs” (I, iv, 3). The belief plays a momentary part in Vondel's Lucifer when Lucifer says to his followers: I shall exalt my haughty tyranny, And ye, my sons, shall be adored as gods. At altars in high temples without ...
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Contents
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173 | |
Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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