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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vapours , he has a body ; when he animates the toad , he seems to be mere spirit , that can penetrate matter at pleasure ; when “ he starts up in his own shape , " he has at least a determined form ; and when he is brought before ...
vapours , he has a body ; when he animates the toad , he seems to be mere spirit , that can penetrate matter at pleasure ; when “ he starts up in his own shape , " he has at least a determined form ; and when he is brought before ...
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... sons Came like a deluge on the south , and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands . 355 Forth with from ev'ry squadron and each band The heads and leaders thither haste where stood Theirgreat commander ; Godlike shapes and ...
... sons Came like a deluge on the south , and spread Beneath Gibraltar to the Lybian sands . 355 Forth with from ev'ry squadron and each band The heads and leaders thither haste where stood Theirgreat commander ; Godlike shapes and ...
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... monstrous shapes and sorceries abus'd . Fanatic Egypt and her priests , to seek 480 Their wand'ring Gods disguis'd in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel ' scape Th'infection , when their borrow'd gold compos'd The calf ...
... monstrous shapes and sorceries abus'd . Fanatic Egypt and her priests , to seek 480 Their wand'ring Gods disguis'd in brutish forms Rather than human . Nor did Israel ' scape Th'infection , when their borrow'd gold compos'd The calf ...
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Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess , yet observ'd Their dread commander : he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent , 590 Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ...
Thus far these beyond Compare of mortal prowess , yet observ'd Their dread commander : he above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent , 590 Stood like a tow'r ; his form had not yet lost All her original brightness ...
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Thus incorporeal Sp'rits to smallest forms Reduc'd their shapes immense , and were at large , Though without number still amidst the hall 791 Of that infernal court . But far within , And in their own dimensions like themselves ...
Thus incorporeal Sp'rits to smallest forms Reduc'd their shapes immense , and were at large , Though without number still amidst the hall 791 Of that infernal court . But far within , And in their own dimensions like themselves ...
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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...