The Poetical Works of John Milton, Volume 1S. Andrus, 1852 |
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... leave something so written to after - times as they should not willingly let die . " - Preface to the Second Book of ... leaving Cambridge , in 1632 , Milton resided five years with his father , on an estate which the latter had ...
... leave something so written to after - times as they should not willingly let die . " - Preface to the Second Book of ... leaving Cambridge , in 1632 , Milton resided five years with his father , on an estate which the latter had ...
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... leave to soar awhile , as the poets use - Zeal , whose substance is ethereal , arming in complete diamond , ascends his fiery chariot , drawn with two blazing meteors , figured like beasts , but of a higher breed than any the zodiac ...
... leave to soar awhile , as the poets use - Zeal , whose substance is ethereal , arming in complete diamond , ascends his fiery chariot , drawn with two blazing meteors , figured like beasts , but of a higher breed than any the zodiac ...
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... leaves should all be black whereon I write , And letters where my tears have wash'd a wannish white . " Were ever tears shed , either in writing or reading such frigid lines as these ? If they sprang into the eye , they would freeze ...
... leaves should all be black whereon I write , And letters where my tears have wash'd a wannish white . " Were ever tears shed , either in writing or reading such frigid lines as these ? If they sprang into the eye , they would freeze ...
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... leave in the midst a horrid vale . Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt unusual weight ; till on dry land He lights , if it were land that ever burn'd With solid , as the lake with ...
... leave in the midst a horrid vale . Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt unusual weight ; till on dry land He lights , if it were land that ever burn'd With solid , as the lake with ...
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... leave a singed bottom , all involved With stench and smoke : such resting found the sole Of unblest feet . Him follow'd his next mate : Both glorying to have ' scaped the Stygian flood , As gods , and by their own recover'd strength ...
... leave a singed bottom , all involved With stench and smoke : such resting found the sole Of unblest feet . Him follow'd his next mate : Both glorying to have ' scaped the Stygian flood , As gods , and by their own recover'd strength ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Almighty angels appear'd archangel arm'd arms aught beast Beelzebub behold bliss bright burning lake call'd celestial cherub cherubim cloud Comus creatures dark death deep delight divine dread dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair fair angels faith Father fear fell fiend fierce fire fix'd flaming flowers fruit glory gods grace hand happy hast hath heart heaven heavenly hell hill Ithuriel JOHN MILTON join'd King labour less lest light live mankind Messiah Milton morn night o'er ordain'd pain PARADISE LOST pass'd peace praise reign replied return'd round sapience Satan seat seem'd seraph serpent shalt sight song soon spake spirits stars stood sweet taste Thammuz thee thence thine things thither thou hast thoughts throne thunder thyself tree turn'd Uriel vex'd virtue voice whence winds wings wonder Zephon
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Page xxv - Or the unseen genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail To walk the Studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim, religious light. There let the pealing organ blow To the full-voiced quire below, In service high and anthems clear, As may with sweetness, through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all heaven before mine eyes.
Page xxxii - Memory and her siren daughters ; but by devout prayer to that eternal spirit, who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 138 - Hail, wedded Love, mysterious law, true source Of human offspring, sole propriety In Paradise of all things common else! By thee adulterous lust was driven from men Among the bestial herds to range; by thee, Founded in reason, loyal, just, and pure, Relations dear, and all the charities Of father, son, and brother, first were known.
Page 78 - O'er bog, or steep, through strait, rough, dense, or rare, With head, hands, wings, or feet, pursues his way, And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or flies.
Page 51 - Sit unpolluted, and the ethereal mould Incapable of stain would soon expel Her mischief, and purge off the baser fire, Victorious. Thus repulsed, our final hope Is flat despair; we must exasperate The almighty victor to spend all his rage; And that must end us, that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid...
Page 134 - Unargued I obey: so God ordains; God is thy law, thou mine: to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
Page 86 - 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 17 - Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st ; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine ; what is low raise and support ; That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to man.
Page 155 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform; and mix And nourish all things; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise. Ye...
Page 41 - From heaven, they fabled, thrown by angry Jove Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star, On Lemnos the /Egean isle : thus they relate...