The Shorter Poems of John Milton: Including the Two Latin Elegies and Italian Sonnet to Diodati, and the Epitaphium DamonisMacmillan, 1898 - 299 páginas |
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... England her dominion of the seas in 1692 , witnessed the glorious reign of Queen Eliza- beth close in an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty , - " From worlds not quickened by the sun , A portion of the gift is won ; An ...
... England her dominion of the seas in 1692 , witnessed the glorious reign of Queen Eliza- beth close in an evening of extraordinary splendor and beauty , - " From worlds not quickened by the sun , A portion of the gift is won ; An ...
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... England , with Butler , Bunyan , and Milton . would understand the forces which created and nurtured Milton the man and poet we must turn to the history of the closing years of Elizabeth and the period of James I. and Charles I. His ...
... England , with Butler , Bunyan , and Milton . would understand the forces which created and nurtured Milton the man and poet we must turn to the history of the closing years of Elizabeth and the period of James I. and Charles I. His ...
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... England passed through that mighty change due to her becoming a nation of a single book , the Bible . The Bible , clothed in the language of Shakespeare , and enthroned in the home which Puritanism had created , fostered manners , vir ...
... England passed through that mighty change due to her becoming a nation of a single book , the Bible . The Bible , clothed in the language of Shakespeare , and enthroned in the home which Puritanism had created , fostered manners , vir ...
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... England , and Presbyterianism in Scotland ; when the two antagonistic parties , Catholics and Puritans , each ready for the death struggle , are watching his every movement ; and the civilized world interested spectators . Where ...
... England , and Presbyterianism in Scotland ; when the two antagonistic parties , Catholics and Puritans , each ready for the death struggle , are watching his every movement ; and the civilized world interested spectators . Where ...
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... England . Notwithstanding the political and religious ferment . of the time , the principles of the Renaissance and the Reformation , which created Elizabethan England , still remained , although the old enthusiasm for England ...
... England . Notwithstanding the political and religious ferment . of the time , the principles of the Renaissance and the Reformation , which created Elizabethan England , still remained , although the old enthusiasm for England ...
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The Shorter Poems of John Milton: Including the Two Latin Elegies and ... John Milton Vista completa - 1898 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Alluding allusion beauty Cambridge MSS charm Church College Comus Cromwell Dæmon Damon dark daughter death delight Diodati divine domino jam domum impasti doth Earl of Bridgewater earth edition Elegy England English Estrildis Faerie Queene fair father flower gentle golden hast hath hear Heaven Henry Lawes honour Il Penseroso Italian jam non vacat Jonson King L'Allegro Lady Latin Lawes light lines Lord Ludlow Castle Lycidas masque Masson says Midsummer Night's Dream mihi Milton Milton's own hand mind moral morn Muse nature night Nightingale noble nymphs o'er Paradise Lost Parliament pastoral Penseroso Phillips poem poet poetry praise Puritan revealed rhyme Richard Garnett river Shakespeare shepherds solemn song sonnet soul Spenser spheres spirit star Stopford Brooke sweet Tennyson thee thou thought Thyrsis truth University Carrier Vane verse virgin virtue wife wings Wordsworth young youth
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Página 14 - But peaceful was the night Wherein the Prince of light His reign of peace upon the earth began...
Página 187 - Where the bee sucks, there suck I; In a cowslip's bell I lie: There I couch when owls do cry. On the bat's back I do fly, After summer, merrily : Merrily, merrily, shall I live now, Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.
Página 39 - With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Página 87 - I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. £ Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due; For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas? he knew 10 Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear.
Página 92 - Return, Alpheus; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades and wanton winds and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks, Throw hither all your quaint enamelled eyes, That on the green turf suck the honeyed showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Página 40 - Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, Sober, steadfast, and demure, All in a robe of darkest grain, Flowing with majestic train, And sable stole of cypress lawn Over thy decent shoulders drawn. Come, but keep thy wonted state, With even step and musing gait And looks commercing with the skies, Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes...
Página 138 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Página 41 - On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the heaven's wide pathless way; 70 And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, 75 Swinging slow with sullen roar...
Página 195 - O'er other creatures : yet when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best...
Página 91 - Ah ! who hath reft,' quoth he, ' my dearest pledge ? ' Last came, and last did go The Pilot of the Galilean lake ; Two massy keys he bore of metals twain...