Paradise Lost: A Poem in Twelve Books, Volume 1J. and R. Tonson and S. Draper, 1750 - English poetry |
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... first care has been to print the text correctly according to Milton's own editions . And herein the editors of Milton have a confiderable advantage over the editors of Shakespear . For the first editions of Shakespear's works being ...
... first care has been to print the text correctly according to Milton's own editions . And herein the editors of Milton have a confiderable advantage over the editors of Shakespear . For the first editions of Shakespear's works being ...
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... first editions in the main , tho ' we cannot think that they ought to be followed ( as fome have advised ) letter for letter , and point for point . We defire to tranfcribe all their excellences , but have no defire PREFACE .
... first editions in the main , tho ' we cannot think that they ought to be followed ( as fome have advised ) letter for letter , and point for point . We defire to tranfcribe all their excellences , but have no defire PREFACE .
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... first engaged me in this undertaking , and he has kindly affifted me in it from the beginning to the end ; and I cannot but entertain the better hopes of the public approbation , as these sheets , long before they went to the prefs ...
... first engaged me in this undertaking , and he has kindly affifted me in it from the beginning to the end ; and I cannot but entertain the better hopes of the public approbation , as these sheets , long before they went to the prefs ...
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... first discovered his acrimony against Archbishop Laud , and to have threaten'd him with the lofs of his head , which afterwards happened to him thro ' the fury of his enemies . At least I can think of no fenfe fo proper to be given to ...
... first discovered his acrimony against Archbishop Laud , and to have threaten'd him with the lofs of his head , which afterwards happened to him thro ' the fury of his enemies . At least I can think of no fenfe fo proper to be given to ...
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... first appearing of the Doctrin and Difciplin of Divorce the clergy raised a heavy outcry against it , and daily folicited the Parlament to pafs fome cenfure upon it ; and at last one of them , in a fermon preached before the Lords and ...
... first appearing of the Doctrin and Difciplin of Divorce the clergy raised a heavy outcry against it , and daily folicited the Parlament to pafs fome cenfure upon it ; and at last one of them , in a fermon preached before the Lords and ...
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Page 39 - Like night, and darken'd all the land of Nile: So numberless were those bad Angels seen Hovering on wing under the cope of Hell...
Page 33 - Lie thus astonished on the oblivious pool, And call them not to share with us their part In this unhappy mansion, or once more, With rallied arms, to try what may be yet Regained in Heaven, or what more lost in Hell?
Page 32 - Here we may reign secure, and, in my choice, To reign is worth ambition, though in hell: Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
Page xii - ... there), met with acceptance above what was looked for; and other things, which I had shifted in scarcity of books and conveniences to patch up amongst them, were received with written encomiums, which the Italian is not forward to bestow on men of this side the Alps...
Page 144 - Whence and what art thou, execrable shape! That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates? through them I mean to pass, That be assured, without leave asked of thee: Retire, or taste thy folly; and learn by proof, Hell-born! not to contend with spirits of Heaven!
Page 254 - 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 354 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Page xciii - Besides, it was easier for Homer and Virgil to dash the truth with fiction, as they were in no danger of offending the religion of their country by it. But as for Milton, he had not only a very few circumstances upon which to raise his poem, but was also obliged to proceed with the greatest caution in every thing that he added out of his own invention.
Page 398 - Hear, all ye angels, progeny of light, Thrones, dominations, princedoms, virtues, powers ; Hear my decree, which unrevoked shall stand. This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son, and on this holy hill Him have anointed, whom ye now behold At my right hand; your head I him appoint; And by myself have sworn, to him shall bow All knees in heaven, and shall confess him Lord...
Page 307 - Unargued I obey, so GOD ordains; GOD is thy law, thou mine; to know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge and her praise.