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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... thing when related to him . " Tradition , as usual , has exaggerated this statement , until now the current assertion is that Milton preferred Paradise Regained to Paradise Lost . We may safely say that he knew better . But , probably ...
... thing when related to him . " Tradition , as usual , has exaggerated this statement , until now the current assertion is that Milton preferred Paradise Regained to Paradise Lost . We may safely say that he knew better . But , probably ...
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... Things highest , greatest , multiplies my fear . Before him a great Prophet , to proclaim His coming , is sent harbinger , who all Invites , and in the consecrated stream Pretends to wash off sin , and fit them so Purified to receive ...
... Things highest , greatest , multiplies my fear . Before him a great Prophet , to proclaim His coming , is sent harbinger , who all Invites , and in the consecrated stream Pretends to wash off sin , and fit them so Purified to receive ...
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... things could be To her a virgin , that on her should come 141 The Holy Ghost , and the power of the Highest O'ershadow her . This Man , born and now upgrown , To show him worthy of his birth divine And high prediction , henceforth I ...
... things could be To her a virgin , that on her should come 141 The Holy Ghost , and the power of the Highest O'ershadow her . This Man , born and now upgrown , To show him worthy of his birth divine And high prediction , henceforth I ...
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... I thought Born to that end , born to promote all truth , All righteous things . Therefore , above my years , The Law of God I read , and found it sweet ; 190 200 Made it my whole delight , and in it grew 22 PARADISE REGAINED .
... I thought Born to that end , born to promote all truth , All righteous things . Therefore , above my years , The Law of God I read , and found it sweet ; 190 200 Made it my whole delight , and in it grew 22 PARADISE REGAINED .
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... things of thee to all that present stood . ' This having heard , straight I again revolved The Law and Prophets , searching what was writ 260 Concerning the Messiah , to our scribes Known partly , and soon found of whom they spake I am ...
... things of thee to all that present stood . ' This having heard , straight I again revolved The Law and Prophets , searching what was writ 260 Concerning the Messiah , to our scribes Known partly , and soon found of whom they spake I am ...
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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.