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... SAMSON AGONISTES : - : - INTRODUCTION The Author's Preface : “ Of that sort of Dramatic Poem called Tragedy . ” The Argument and the Persons TEXT OF THE POEM MINOR POEMS : - -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION , OR CHRONOLOGY OF THE POEMS : with an ...
... SAMSON AGONISTES : - : - INTRODUCTION The Author's Preface : “ Of that sort of Dramatic Poem called Tragedy . ” The Argument and the Persons TEXT OF THE POEM MINOR POEMS : - -- GENERAL INTRODUCTION , OR CHRONOLOGY OF THE POEMS : with an ...
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... Samson Agonistes , which he also had for some time by him , or had just composed , he issued the two poems in a small octavo volume of 220 pages , with this general title - page- " Paradise Regain'd . A Poem . In IV . Books . " To which ...
... Samson Agonistes , which he also had for some time by him , or had just composed , he issued the two poems in a small octavo volume of 220 pages , with this general title - page- " Paradise Regain'd . A Poem . In IV . Books . " To which ...
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... Samson Agonistes , a drammadic [ sic ] Poem , by the same Author . The volume itself furnishes an additional item of information . On the page opposite the general title - page at the beginning is this brief imprint , " Licensed , July ...
... Samson Agonistes , a drammadic [ sic ] Poem , by the same Author . The volume itself furnishes an additional item of information . On the page opposite the general title - page at the beginning is this brief imprint , " Licensed , July ...
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... Samson , appeared in folio in 1688 , sold , either together or separately , by a new publisher - Randal Taylor ; and these are commonly found bound up with the fourth or folio edition of Paradise Lost , published by another bookseller ...
... Samson , appeared in folio in 1688 , sold , either together or separately , by a new publisher - Randal Taylor ; and these are commonly found bound up with the fourth or folio edition of Paradise Lost , published by another bookseller ...
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... Samson , in an edition apart from the other poems . There is not the least reason for doubting Ellwood's statement as to the way in which the subject of Paradise Regained was suggested to Milton . There is no such evidence as in the ...
... Samson , in an edition apart from the other poems . There is not the least reason for doubting Ellwood's statement as to the way in which the subject of Paradise Regained was suggested to Milton . There is no such evidence as in the ...
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Page 412 - Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet, And hears the Muses in a ring Aye round about Jove's altar sing; And add to these retired Leisure, That in trim gardens takes his pleasure; But first and chiefest, with thee bring Him that yon soars on golden wing, Guiding the fiery-wheeled throne, The Cherub Contemplation ; And the mute Silence hist along, 'Less Philomel will deign a song, In her sweetest saddest plight.
Page 144 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame ; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 415 - And, as I wake, sweet music breathe Above, about, or underneath, Sent by some Spirit to mortals good, 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.
Page 408 - To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled...
Page 428 - We, that are of purer fire, Imitate the starry quire ; Who, in their nightly watchful spheres, Lead in swift round the months and years. The sounds and seas, with all their finny drove, Now to the moon in wavering morrice move ; And on the tawny sands and shelves Trip the pert fairies and the dapper elves.
Page 262 - Oaks and rills, While the still morn went out with Sandals gray, He touched the tender stops of various Quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay: And now the Sun had stretched out all the hills, And now was dropt into the Western bay; At last he rose, and twitched his Mantle blue: To-morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new.
Page 443 - Yea, even that which Mischief meant most harm Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. But evil on itself shall back recoil...
Page 390 - While the heaven-born child 30 All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies; Nature, in awe to him, Had doffed her gaudy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize: It was no season then for her To wanton with the Sun, her lusty paramour. II. Only with speeches fair She woos the gentle air To hide her guilty front with innocent snow...
Page 415 - 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 390 - But He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace ; She, crowned with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere His ready harbinger, With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing; And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.