Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author. With a Critical Dissertation, on the Poetical Works of Milton, and Observations on His Language and Versification, 1–2. köide |
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... both on account of the peculiar elegance of the style , and because it was his province to write such things , as Latin Secretary . At length , Oliver Cromwell being dead , and the government weak and unsettled , Milton thought fit ...
... both on account of the peculiar elegance of the style , and because it was his province to write such things , as Latin Secretary . At length , Oliver Cromwell being dead , and the government weak and unsettled , Milton thought fit ...
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The Author's design is not , what Theobald has remarked , merely to show how objects derive their colours from the mind , by representing the operation of the same things upon the gay and the melancholy temper , or upon the same man as ...
The Author's design is not , what Theobald has remarked , merely to show how objects derive their colours from the mind , by representing the operation of the same things upon the gay and the melancholy temper , or upon the same man as ...
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To paint things as they are , requires a minute attention , and employs the memory rather than the fancy . Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility : reality was a scene too narrow for his mind .
To paint things as they are , requires a minute attention , and employs the memory rather than the fancy . Milton's delight was to sport in the wide regions of possibility : reality was a scene too narrow for his mind .
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Yet as I read , soon growing less severe , I lik'd his project , the success did fear ; Thro ' that wide field how he his way should find , O'er which lame faith leads understanding blind ; Lest he perplex'd the things he would explain ...
Yet as I read , soon growing less severe , I lik'd his project , the success did fear ; Thro ' that wide field how he his way should find , O'er which lame faith leads understanding blind ; Lest he perplex'd the things he would explain ...
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And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves , and thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize , Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease ; And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so ...
And things divine thou treat'st of in such state As them preserves , and thee , inviolate . At once delight and horror on us seize , Thou sing'st with so much gravity and ease ; And above human flight dost soar aloft With plume so ...
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Page 3 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 23 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page xix - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 74 - 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...
Page 9 - And reassembling our afflicted powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair.
Page 74 - Those other two, equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 10 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 104 - What feign'd submission swore? Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Page 103 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Page 74 - Tunes her nocturnal note : 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...
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| Pealkiri | Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author. With a Critical Dissertation, on the Poetical Works of Milton, and Observations on His Language and Versification, 1–2. köide Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author. With a Critical Dissertation, on the Poetical Works of Milton, and Observations on His Language and Versification, Samuel Johnson |
| Authors | John Milton, Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | J. Parsons, 1796 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 25 aug. 2006 |
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