The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Memoir, Introductions, Notes, and an Essay on Milton's English and Versification, Volume 3Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... beginning is this brief imprint , " Licensed , July 2 , 1670 , " -from which it appears that the necessary licence had been obtained by Milton from the censor Tomkyns . Apparently Tomkyns gave this licence more easily than he had given ...
... beginning is this brief imprint , " Licensed , July 2 , 1670 , " -from which it appears that the necessary licence had been obtained by Milton from the censor Tomkyns . Apparently Tomkyns gave this licence more easily than he had given ...
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... beginning of Christ's ministry , Satan , encountering Him , knew that he had met his match , and that all that followed in the whole ministry , to its close , was virtually certain from the date of this initial act of superiority over ...
... beginning of Christ's ministry , Satan , encountering Him , knew that he had met his match , and that all that followed in the whole ministry , to its close , was virtually certain from the date of this initial act of superiority over ...
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... beginning , and in lies wilt end , Who boast'st release from Hell , and leave to come Into the Heaven of Heavens . Thou com'st , indeed , 410 As a poor miserable captive thrall Comes to the place where he before had sat Among the prime ...
... beginning , and in lies wilt end , Who boast'st release from Hell , and leave to come Into the Heaven of Heavens . Thou com'st , indeed , 410 As a poor miserable captive thrall Comes to the place where he before had sat Among the prime ...
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... him suspicious ; Hated of all , and hating . With what ease , Endued with regal virtues as thou art , Appearing , and beginning noble deeds , 70 80 90 Might'st thou expel this monster from his throne , 100 THE FOURTH BOOK . 61.
... him suspicious ; Hated of all , and hating . With what ease , Endued with regal virtues as thou art , Appearing , and beginning noble deeds , 70 80 90 Might'st thou expel this monster from his throne , 100 THE FOURTH BOOK . 61.
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... beginning ; for no date prefixed Directs me in the starry rubric set . " So saying , he took ( for still he knew his power Not yet expired ) , and to the Wilderness Brought back , the Son of God , and left him there , Feigning to ...
... beginning ; for no date prefixed Directs me in the starry rubric set . " So saying , he took ( for still he knew his power Not yet expired ) , and to the Wilderness Brought back , the Son of God , and left him there , Feigning to ...
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Page 275 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune...
Page 91 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions ; that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Page 6 - 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, heavenly Muse...
Page 179 - Farewell happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells : Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
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 230 - Sweet echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well: Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are? O, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Sweet Queen of Parley, Daughter of the Sphere! So may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies!
Page 281 - He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain? And questioned every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory: They knew not of his story...
Page 227 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Page 95 - A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade; There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily...
Page 80 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.