Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. Printed from the Text of Tonson's Correct Edition of 1711. A New Edition, with Notes and the Life of the Author, in Three Volumes, by Thomas Newton, ...proprietors, 1795 |
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... look upon himself as inspired , and his works are not without a spirit of enthusiasm . In the beginning of his 2d book of The Reason of Church Government , speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language , he says , not ...
... look upon himself as inspired , and his works are not without a spirit of enthusiasm . In the beginning of his 2d book of The Reason of Church Government , speaking of his design of writing a poem in the English language , he says , not ...
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... look upon Mammon as the God of riches , and Mammon is accordingly made a person by our poet , and was so by Spenser before him , whose description of Mammon and his cave our poet seems to have had his eye upon in several places . 682 ...
... look upon Mammon as the God of riches , and Mammon is accordingly made a person by our poet , and was so by Spenser before him , whose description of Mammon and his cave our poet seems to have had his eye upon in several places . 682 ...
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... look into the conduct of Homer , Virgil , and Milton , as the great fable is the soul of each poem , so to give their works an agreeable variety , their episodes are so many short fables , and their similies so many short episodes ; to ...
... look into the conduct of Homer , Virgil , and Milton , as the great fable is the soul of each poem , so to give their works an agreeable variety , their episodes are so many short fables , and their similies so many short episodes ; to ...
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... look into the sixth book , we find him celebrated in the battle of Angels for nothing but that scoffing speech which he makes to Satan , on their supposed advantage over the enemy . As his ap- pearance is uniform in these three several ...
... look into the sixth book , we find him celebrated in the battle of Angels for nothing but that scoffing speech which he makes to Satan , on their supposed advantage over the enemy . As his ap- pearance is uniform in these three several ...
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... looks are clear'd . -o'er spread . 489 . Heav'n's chearful face , ] Spenser , Faery Queen , b . ii cant . xii . st . 34 . And Heav'n's chearful face enveloped . Thyer . 494. - bleating herds ] Dr. Bentley reads flocks , and says that ...
... looks are clear'd . -o'er spread . 489 . Heav'n's chearful face , ] Spenser , Faery Queen , b . ii cant . xii . st . 34 . And Heav'n's chearful face enveloped . Thyer . 494. - bleating herds ] Dr. Bentley reads flocks , and says that ...
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Page 200 - Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould me man ? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me...
Page 180 - Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 231 - And the whole earth was of one language and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar; and they dwelt there.
Page 167 - My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to smite his fellowservants, and to eat and drink with the drunken ; the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Page 213 - And Elisha prayed, and said, LORD, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the LORD opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.
Page 212 - And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him. And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host : and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.
Page 233 - And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran his son's son, and Sarai his daughter in law, his son Abram's wife ; and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan ; and they came unto Haran, and dwelt there.
Page 115 - 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 196 - And I looked, and behold, a pale horse : and his name that sat on him was Death, and hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 237 - Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross; And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.