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, Volumes 1-2 |
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This book was answered by Archbishop Usher , who published at Oxford a Refutation of Smectymnuus , in a tract concerning the Original of Bishops and Metropolitans . This latter brought forth Mil1 ton's little piece Of Prelatical ...
This book was answered by Archbishop Usher , who published at Oxford a Refutation of Smectymnuus , in a tract concerning the Original of Bishops and Metropolitans . This latter brought forth Mil1 ton's little piece Of Prelatical ...
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He was then in high favour at the court of Christina , Queen of Sweden , who had invited thither several of the most learned men of all countries : but when Milton's Defence of the people of England was brought to Sweden , and was read ...
He was then in high favour at the court of Christina , Queen of Sweden , who had invited thither several of the most learned men of all countries : but when Milton's Defence of the people of England was brought to Sweden , and was read ...
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Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me , like Alcestis , from the grave , Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave , Rescu'd from death by force , though pale and faint ; Mine as whom wash'd from spot ...
Methought I saw my late espoused saint Brought to me , like Alcestis , from the grave , Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave , Rescu'd from death by force , though pale and faint ; Mine as whom wash'd from spot ...
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The profits of the night were only one hundred and thirty pounds , though Dr. Newton brought a large contribution ; and twenty pounds were given by Tonson : a man who is to be praised as often as he is named .
The profits of the night were only one hundred and thirty pounds , though Dr. Newton brought a large contribution ; and twenty pounds were given by Tonson : a man who is to be praised as often as he is named .
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... he has at least a determined form ; and when he is brought before Gabriel , he has " a spear and a shield , ” which he had the power of hiding in the toad , though the arms of the contending angels are evidently material .
... he has at least a determined form ; and when he is brought before Gabriel , he has " a spear and a shield , ” which he had the power of hiding in the toad , though the arms of the contending angels are evidently material .
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Adam Angels appears arms Author behold bright bring brought called cloud created dark death deep delight divine dwell earth equal Eſq eternal evil eyes fair faith fall Father fear field fire fruit gates give glory Gods grace hand happy hast hath head heard heart Heav'n Hell hill hope human John King late leave less light live look lost mankind mean Milton mind morn nature never Newton night once pain Paradise PARADISE LOST peace perhaps Poem Poet pow'r praise reason receive rest rise round Satan says seat seems shape side sight soon spake Spirit stand stars stood sweet taste thee thence things thou thoughts throne till tree voice wide wings
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...