The Poetical Works of John MiltonPhillips, Sampson, 1855 - 858 pages |
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Page xxxvi
... supposed to have renewed his Calvinistic and puritanical prejudices . It is somewhat strange that this small place should have been the focus of all that troubled the governments of Europe for more than a century . They were not content ...
... supposed to have renewed his Calvinistic and puritanical prejudices . It is somewhat strange that this small place should have been the focus of all that troubled the governments of Europe for more than a century . They were not content ...
Page lxiv
... supposed to be the tyranny inseparable from their power . His ambition does not appear to have been in the least degroe selfish ; he had no views of personal aggrandizement : he did not look to riches or political honours : he had no ...
... supposed to be the tyranny inseparable from their power . His ambition does not appear to have been in the least degroe selfish ; he had no views of personal aggrandizement : he did not look to riches or political honours : he had no ...
Page lxvii
... supposed to have been planned or begun at Chalfont . Ellwood having called on the poet after his return to London , was shown by him this poem , with the remark , " This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head by the question you ...
... supposed to have been planned or begun at Chalfont . Ellwood having called on the poet after his return to London , was shown by him this poem , with the remark , " This is owing to you ; for you put it into my head by the question you ...
Page lxxxvi
... supposed to have proceeded from such authors , so it entered very properly into the thoughts of that being , who is all along described as aspiring to the majesty of his Maker . Such engines were the only instruments he could have made ...
... supposed to have proceeded from such authors , so it entered very properly into the thoughts of that being , who is all along described as aspiring to the majesty of his Maker . Such engines were the only instruments he could have made ...
Page xciv
... supposed he would have respected ; as , for instance , the beautiful adaptation of Addison , beginning The Lord my pasture shall prepare , And feed me with a shepherd's care . But Johnson had an abhorrence of a rural abode : with him ...
... supposed he would have respected ; as , for instance , the beautiful adaptation of Addison , beginning The Lord my pasture shall prepare , And feed me with a shepherd's care . But Johnson had an abhorrence of a rural abode : with him ...
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Page 403 - And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and night...
Page 707 - Return, Alpheus, the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use, Of shades and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 210 - But neither breath of morn, when she ascends With charm of earliest birds; nor rising sun On this delightful land; nor herb, fruit, flower, Glistering with dew; nor fragrance after showers; Nor grateful evening mild; nor silent night With this her solemn bird; nor walk by moon, Or glittering starlight, without thee is sweet.
Page 124 - What matter where, if I be still the same, And what I should be ; all but less than He Whom thunder hath made greater >. Here at least We shall be free ; the Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence : Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell : Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page 174 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song ; but chief Thee, Sion, and the flowery brooks beneath, That wash thy hallow'd feet, and warbling flow, Nightly I visit...
Page 727 - Vesta long of yore To solitary Saturn bore; His daughter she; in Saturn's reign Such mixture was not held a stain. Oft in glimmering bowers and glades He met her, and in secret shades Of woody Ida's inmost grove, Whilst yet there was no fear of Jove. Come, pensive Nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn.
Page 710 - 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. There entertain him all the saints above, In solemn troops and sweet societies, That sing, and, singing, in their glory move, And wipe the tears for ever from his eyes.
Page lvii - And long it was not after, when I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Page xlvi - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar...
Page 772 - With saintly shout and solemn jubilee ; Where the bright Seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow ; And the Cherubic host in thousand quires Touch their immortal harps of golden wires, With those just Spirits that wear victorious palms...