The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Life [of the Author].T. Nelson, 1861 - 523 pages |
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Page xv
... hand to the cause of liberty . They must be very ignorant of the history of England at this period , who imagine that Milton was avoiding the post of danger in thus taking up the pen as his weapon of war . Laud had already organized ...
... hand to the cause of liberty . They must be very ignorant of the history of England at this period , who imagine that Milton was avoiding the post of danger in thus taking up the pen as his weapon of war . Laud had already organized ...
Page xxvii
... hand came next , might possibly want correction as to the ortho- graphy and pointing . Having , as the summer came on , not been shown any for a considerable while , and desiring the reason thereof , I was answered that his vein never ...
... hand came next , might possibly want correction as to the ortho- graphy and pointing . Having , as the summer came on , not been shown any for a considerable while , and desiring the reason thereof , I was answered that his vein never ...
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... hand the flames , 200 210 220 Driven backward , slope their pointing spires , and , rolled In billows , leave in the midst a horrid vale . Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt ...
... hand the flames , 200 210 220 Driven backward , slope their pointing spires , and , rolled In billows , leave in the midst a horrid vale . Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft , incumbent on the dusky air , That felt ...
Page 23
... hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold , - Satan exalted sat , by merit raised To that bad eminence : and , from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope , aspires Beyond thus high ; insatiate to pursue Vain war with Heaven ...
... hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold , - Satan exalted sat , by merit raised To that bad eminence : and , from despair Thus high uplifted beyond hope , aspires Beyond thus high ; insatiate to pursue Vain war with Heaven ...
Page 28
... hand to plague us ? What , if all " Her stores were opened , and this firmament " Of Hell should spout her cataracts of fire , " Impendent horrors , threatening hideous fall " One day upon our heads ? while we , perhaps , " Designing or ...
... hand to plague us ? What , if all " Her stores were opened , and this firmament " Of Hell should spout her cataracts of fire , " Impendent horrors , threatening hideous fall " One day upon our heads ? while we , perhaps , " Designing or ...
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