The Poetical Works of John Milton: To which is Prefixed a Biography of the AuthorAppleton, 1868 - 574 pages |
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... minds . The anecdote of Sir John Denham's entering the House of Commons , with a proof - sheet of Paradise Lost , wet from the press , and on being questioned concerning the paper , declaring it was " ' part of the noblest poem that ...
... minds . The anecdote of Sir John Denham's entering the House of Commons , with a proof - sheet of Paradise Lost , wet from the press , and on being questioned concerning the paper , declaring it was " ' part of the noblest poem that ...
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... mind ? Just heaven thee like Tiresias to requite , Rewards with prophecy thy loss of sight . Well might'st thou scorn thy readers to allure With tinkling rhyme , of thy own sense secure ; While the town - bayes writes all the while and ...
... mind ? Just heaven thee like Tiresias to requite , Rewards with prophecy thy loss of sight . Well might'st thou scorn thy readers to allure With tinkling rhyme , of thy own sense secure ; While the town - bayes writes all the while and ...
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... thy England's purest phrase But every polish'd realm thy various speech displays . The secret things of heaven and earth , By Nature , too reserved , conceal'd From other minds of highest worth , To thee are INTRODUCTION . 17.
... thy England's purest phrase But every polish'd realm thy various speech displays . The secret things of heaven and earth , By Nature , too reserved , conceal'd From other minds of highest worth , To thee are INTRODUCTION . 17.
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... minds of highest worth , To thee are copiously reveal'd , Thou know'st them clearly , and thy views attain The ... mind . Give me , that I may praise thy song , Thy lyre , by which alone I can , Which , placing thee the stars among ...
... minds of highest worth , To thee are copiously reveal'd , Thou know'st them clearly , and thy views attain The ... mind . Give me , that I may praise thy song , Thy lyre , by which alone I can , Which , placing thee the stars among ...
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... mind , he studied seven years , and took his degree of master of arts ; and , for the extraordinary wit and reading he had shown in his performances to attain his degree ( some whereof spoken at a vacation exercise in his nineteenth ...
... mind , he studied seven years , and took his degree of master of arts ; and , for the extraordinary wit and reading he had shown in his performances to attain his degree ( some whereof spoken at a vacation exercise in his nineteenth ...
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Adam agni amorous angels appear'd arm'd arms aught beast behold bliss bright call'd cherubim cloud COMUS Dagon dark death deeds deep delight didst divine doth dread dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair faith Father fear fræna fruit glorious glory gods grace Hæc hand happy hast hath heard heart Heaven heavenly Hell hill honor ipse Israel John Milton join'd King lest light live Lord Lycidas MANOAH Messiah mihi Milton mortal night numina o'er Paradise Lost PARADISE REGAINED pass'd peace Philistines poems praise quæ reign return'd round SAMSON SAMSON AGONISTES Satan seem'd serpent shade shalt sight Son of God song soon soul spake spirits stood strength sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tibi tree Tu quoque turn'd vex'd virtue voice whence wings wonder
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Page 413 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful jollity, Quips, and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides...
Page 415 - Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long, drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Page 45 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round As one great furnace flamed, yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed...
Page 134 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair : thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works ; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Page 456 - But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
Page 49 - Farewell, happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells! Hail, horrors! hail, Infernal World! and thou, profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor— one who brings A mind not to be changed by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
Page 203 - Yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say, Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 106 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd 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...
Page 455 - Had ye been there," . . . for what could that have done ? What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore? Alas ! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done as others use, To sport with Amaryllis...
Page 455 - What time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn, Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night ; Oft till the star, that rose at evening bright, Toward heaven's descent had sloped his westering wheel.