Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D. ...J. and R. Tonson, B. Dodd, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin [and 8 others in London], 1763 |
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... verses are made only for the amusement of Your leisure hours , and the entertain- ment of Your friends ; and it is not easy for others , who have not had the plea- fure of seeing fome of them , to con- ceive the fpirit , and ease , and ...
... verses are made only for the amusement of Your leisure hours , and the entertain- ment of Your friends ; and it is not easy for others , who have not had the plea- fure of seeing fome of them , to con- ceive the fpirit , and ease , and ...
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... verses of his own in the room of Milton's , he commonly made most miferable bungling work , being no poet himself , and having little or no tafte of poetry . Dr. Pearce , the prefent Lord Bishop of Rochester , has diftinguished his ...
... verses of his own in the room of Milton's , he commonly made most miferable bungling work , being no poet himself , and having little or no tafte of poetry . Dr. Pearce , the prefent Lord Bishop of Rochester , has diftinguished his ...
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... verses upon occafional fubjects , as well as by all his academical exercises , many of which are printed among his other works , and thow him to have had a capacity above his years and by his obliging behaviour added to his great ...
... verses upon occafional fubjects , as well as by all his academical exercises , many of which are printed among his other works , and thow him to have had a capacity above his years and by his obliging behaviour added to his great ...
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... verses : and this al- teration was made with great judgment , not for the fake of fuch a fanciful beauty as refembling the number of books in the Eneid , but for the more regular difpofition of the poem , because the feventh and tenth ...
... verses : and this al- teration was made with great judgment , not for the fake of fuch a fanciful beauty as refembling the number of books in the Eneid , but for the more regular difpofition of the poem , because the feventh and tenth ...
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... the learned Abbè Salvini , the fame who tranflated Addifon's Cato into Italian . One William Hog or Hogaus tranflated Paradife Loft , Paradife € 2 Regain'd , Regain'd , and Samfon Agonistes into Latin verse in 1690 The LIFE of MILTON . lix.
... the learned Abbè Salvini , the fame who tranflated Addifon's Cato into Italian . One William Hog or Hogaus tranflated Paradife Loft , Paradife € 2 Regain'd , Regain'd , and Samfon Agonistes into Latin verse in 1690 The LIFE of MILTON . lix.
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Adam Adam and Eve Addifon Æneid againſt alfo Angels battel beauty becauſe befides beft Belial Bentley call'd Cant darkneſs defcribed defcription earth expreffion exprefs Faery Queen faid fame fays fecond feems feen fenfe fent fentiments ferve feven feveral fhall fhort fhould fhows fide fight fignifies fince fire firft firſt fome fometimes fons foon fpeaking fpeech ftars ftill fubject fublime fuch fuppofe fyllable glory hath Heaven Hell himſelf hoft Homer Hume Iliad inftance king laft Latin lefs likewife meaſure Milton moft Moloch moſt muft muſt night obferves occafion Ovid paffage Paradife Loft Pearce perfon poem poet pow'r prefent profe publiſhed radife reader reafon reft reprefented Richardfon rifing Satan ſhall Spenfer Spirits ſtood Taffo thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought throne Thyer tion tranflated uſed verfe Virg Virgil whofe whoſe word worfe
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Página vii - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more.
Página 186 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 414 - By none ; and if not equal all, yet free, Equally free ; for orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist.
Página 31 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Página 256 - O thou that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world, at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads, to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Página 257 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Página 146 - Whence and what art thou, execrable shape! That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates? through them I mean to pass, That be assured, without leave asked of thee: Retire, or taste thy folly; and learn by proof, Hell-born! not to contend with spirits of Heaven!
Página 354 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Página 79 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Página 272 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Water'd the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears ; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country...