The Poetical Works of John Milton: A New Edition Carefully Revised from the Text of Thomas Newton, D.D. to which is Prefixed a Biographical NoticeGeorge Routledge and Company, Farringdon Street, 1855 - 570 pages |
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... things were tending to a civil war between the King and Parliament : for he thought it unworthy of himself to be taking his pleasure abroad , while his countrymen were con- tending for liberty at home . He resolved , therefore , to ...
... things were tending to a civil war between the King and Parliament : for he thought it unworthy of himself to be taking his pleasure abroad , while his countrymen were con- tending for liberty at home . He resolved , therefore , to ...
Page xxi
... things , and about this time published his letter of " Educa tion " to Mr. Samuel Hartlib ; and in 1644 he published his Areopagitica , " or speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England . It was written at ...
... things , and about this time published his letter of " Educa tion " to Mr. Samuel Hartlib ; and in 1644 he published his Areopagitica , " or speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing to the Parliament of England . It was written at ...
Page xxxix
... things he dreaded spiritual slavery , and therefore closed with Cromwell and the Independents , as he expected under them greater liberty of conscience . And though he served Cromwell , yet it must be said for him , that he served a ...
... things he dreaded spiritual slavery , and therefore closed with Cromwell and the Independents , as he expected under them greater liberty of conscience . And though he served Cromwell , yet it must be said for him , that he served a ...
Page xlv
... things he would explain , And what was easy he should render vain . Or if a work so infinite he spanned , Jealous I was that some less skilful hand ( Such as disquiet always what is well , And by ill imitating would excel ) Might hence ...
... things he would explain , And what was easy he should render vain . Or if a work so infinite he spanned , Jealous I was that some less skilful hand ( Such as disquiet always what is well , And by ill imitating would excel ) Might hence ...
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... things otherwise , and for the most part worse than else they would have expressed them . Not without cause ... thing of itself , to all judicious ears , trivial , and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers , fit ...
... things otherwise , and for the most part worse than else they would have expressed them . Not without cause ... thing of itself , to all judicious ears , trivial , and of no true musical delight ; which consists only in apt numbers , fit ...
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Page 66 - 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; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
Page 476 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise, (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears, And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 5 - And shook his throne. 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 90 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World — at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished 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, Till pride and worse ambition threw me down, Warring in Heaven against Heaven's matchless King ! Ah, wherefore?
Page 416 - For if such holy song Enwrap our fancy long, Time will run back, and fetch the age of gold; And speckled vanity Will sicken soon and die, And leprous sin will melt from earthly mould; And Hell itself will pass away, And leave her dolorous mansions to the peering day.
Page 435 - There, held in holy passion still, Forget thyself to marble, till With a sad leaden downward cast Thou fix them on the earth as fast. And join with thee calm Peace and Quiet; Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet.
Page 436 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what Love did seek!
Page 8 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 432 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace, high triumphs hold, With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend.
Page 486 - To that same lot, however mean or high, Toward which Time leads me, and the will of Heaven ; All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Task-Master's eye.