The Poetical Works of John Milton with a Life of the Author: Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem; Notes Critical and Explanatory; and Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost; and a Verbal Index to All the PoemsSampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1865 - 688 pages |
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... soon after , at my leisure , compared every word in Lycidas " with this Index , and found , in its references to that short poem of one hundred and ninety - three lines , SIXTY - THREE mistakes ! This discovery made me resolve to ...
... soon after , at my leisure , compared every word in Lycidas " with this Index , and found , in its references to that short poem of one hundred and ninety - three lines , SIXTY - THREE mistakes ! This discovery made me resolve to ...
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... soon as I was able , I hired a spacious house in the city for myself and my books , where I again with rapture renewed my literary pursuits , and where I calmly awaited the issue of the contest , which I trusted to the wise conduct of ...
... soon as I was able , I hired a spacious house in the city for myself and my books , where I again with rapture renewed my literary pursuits , and where I calmly awaited the issue of the contest , which I trusted to the wise conduct of ...
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... soon showed that he sincerely entertained these views , by paying his addresses to a beautiful and accomplished young woman , the daughter of a Dr. Davis . This alarmed his wife and her relations.- more especially as the royal cause was ...
... soon showed that he sincerely entertained these views , by paying his addresses to a beautiful and accomplished young woman , the daughter of a Dr. Davis . This alarmed his wife and her relations.- more especially as the royal cause was ...
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... Soon after this he began a new work , " A History of England , " but was prevented from labouring long in this department , by being , unex- pectedly to himself , appointed Secretary of State , March , 1649 : he there- fore immediately ...
... Soon after this he began a new work , " A History of England , " but was prevented from labouring long in this department , by being , unex- pectedly to himself , appointed Secretary of State , March , 1649 : he there- fore immediately ...
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... Soon after this event , he retired from the office of Secretary of State , on an allowance of one hundred and fifty pounds a year . He occupied his time in completing his " History of England " to the Norman conquest ; in the ...
... Soon after this event , he retired from the office of Secretary of State , on an allowance of one hundred and fifty pounds a year . He occupied his time in completing his " History of England " to the Norman conquest ; in the ...
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Adam Adam and Eve ancient angels Arethuse arms beautiful behold bliss bright BRYDGES call'd clouds Comus Dagon dark death deep delight divine dread dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair Father fear fruit glory gods grace hand happy hath heart heaven heavenly hell highth hill honour Il Penseroso King L'Allegro less light live Lord Lycidas Messiah Milton mind morning night nymph o'er Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass'd peace Philistines poem poet poetical poetry praise reign replied return'd round Samson Samson Agonistes Satan Saviour seat seem'd serpent shade shalt sight Son of God song SONNET soon soul spake spirits stars stood strength sublime sweet taste thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tion tree turn'd vex'd virtue voice WARTON whence winds wings wonder words
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Page 458 - Through the dear might of Him that walk'd the waves, Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love.
Page 463 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe...
Page 466 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Page 466 - And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Page 67 - 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, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 405 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 66 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal 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?
Page 232 - This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Page 66 - Eternal coeternal 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 10 The rising World of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite...
Page 464 - Through the sweet-briar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine ; While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And, to the stack or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before : Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering Morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill.