The Poetical Works of John Milton. Edited, with Introductions, Notes, and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson, Volume 1London, 1874 - 613 pages |
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Page xiv
... sound , speak , spirit , stand , star , state , strength , sun , sure , sweet , thing , think , thought , throne , time , tree , true , truth , vain , virtue , voice , walk , war , water , way , well , wide , wild , will , wind , wing ...
... sound , speak , spirit , stand , star , state , strength , sun , sure , sweet , thing , think , thought , throne , time , tree , true , truth , vain , virtue , voice , walk , war , water , way , well , wide , wild , will , wind , wing ...
Page xvi
... sound Of Riot , and ill manag'd Merriment , Such as the jocond Flute , or gamesom Pipe Stirs up among the loose unleter'd Hinds , When for their teeming Flocks , and granges full In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan , And thank ...
... sound Of Riot , and ill manag'd Merriment , Such as the jocond Flute , or gamesom Pipe Stirs up among the loose unleter'd Hinds , When for their teeming Flocks , and granges full In wanton dance they praise the bounteous Pan , And thank ...
Page xxxiii
... sounds through all the individual cases of their occurrence in those texts . The results of my own investigations in ... sound rules for the editorial use of our existing alphabet . Meanwhile , our business being with Milton , the facts ...
... sounds through all the individual cases of their occurrence in those texts . The results of my own investigations in ... sound rules for the editorial use of our existing alphabet . Meanwhile , our business being with Milton , the facts ...
Page xxxiv
... sounds , beyond the y and ie group , were often different from those on which we have now fixed ; and so we find such spellings as mee , hee , shee , wee , yee , sed and sed ( said ) , æternity , sphear , vertue , neather ( neither ) ...
... sounds , beyond the y and ie group , were often different from those on which we have now fixed ; and so we find such spellings as mee , hee , shee , wee , yee , sed and sed ( said ) , æternity , sphear , vertue , neather ( neither ) ...
Page xxxv
... sounds , or on some tolerable compromise between that principle and respect for etymology . Among the most recent of those Spelling Reformers in Milton's time had been his own teacher Alexander Gill the elder , head - master of St ...
... sounds , or on some tolerable compromise between that principle and respect for etymology . Among the most recent of those Spelling Reformers in Milton's time had been his own teacher Alexander Gill the elder , head - master of St ...
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Page 136 - What though the field be lost ? All is not lost : the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield : And what is else not to be overcome ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Page 158 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 139 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood...
Page 363 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 105 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 191 - Eternal coeternal beam, May I express thee unblamed ? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, "Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 48 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame 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 221 - If true, here only — and of delicious taste. Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock ; or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
Page 336 - All higher Knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like Folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally; and to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Page 177 - As, when far off at sea, a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.