The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes and a Life of the AuthorHilliard, Gray, and Company, 1839 |
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... edition of Paradise Lost .... 3. Five Letters to Milton from various friends , now first cxiv printed .... CXV 4. Extracts of letters relating to Milton , from Burman's Syl- loge Epistolarum ... 5. Violation of Milton's Tomb ...
... edition of Paradise Lost .... 3. Five Letters to Milton from various friends , now first cxiv printed .... CXV 4. Extracts of letters relating to Milton , from Burman's Syl- loge Epistolarum ... 5. Violation of Milton's Tomb ...
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... edition to which it was to be attached , I naturally searched for information among the former biogra- phers of the Poet . Though the present Life is too contracted in its plan , and , perhaps , too slender in its materials , to pretend ...
... edition to which it was to be attached , I naturally searched for information among the former biogra- phers of the Poet . Though the present Life is too contracted in its plan , and , perhaps , too slender in its materials , to pretend ...
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... edition of Milton's Poems ( 2nd ed . ) , p . 578. A very few have escaped even him . Peck's new Life of Milton was published in 1740 : an abstract of its contents will be seen in a note in this Life , p . xxx . 4 Cowper , in his Letters ...
... edition of Milton's Poems ( 2nd ed . ) , p . 578. A very few have escaped even him . Peck's new Life of Milton was published in 1740 : an abstract of its contents will be seen in a note in this Life , p . xxx . 4 Cowper , in his Letters ...
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... edition of his work is also enriched with valuable documents lately brought to light . His narrative is for the most part copied from that of Dr. Johnson ; and when he ventures to stray from his illustrious model , and alter his ...
... edition of his work is also enriched with valuable documents lately brought to light . His narrative is for the most part copied from that of Dr. Johnson ; and when he ventures to stray from his illustrious model , and alter his ...
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... edition which he used . But if the wild attempt to unite his own lifeless and prosaic passages with the living spirit of Milton's poetry , were an act of presumption in the aged critic ; yet , I must confess , there is something less of ...
... edition which he used . But if the wild attempt to unite his own lifeless and prosaic passages with the living spirit of Milton's poetry , were an act of presumption in the aged critic ; yet , I must confess , there is something less of ...
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Página 137 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Página 14 - Rivers, or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, to equal which the tallest pine, Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Página 82 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 159 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Página 31 - Rose, like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet, Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave ; nor did there want Cornice or frieze with bossy sculptures graven ; The roof was fretted gold.
Página 61 - Rocks, caves, lakes, fens, bogs, dens, and shades of death, A universe of death, which God by curse Created evil, for evil only good, Where all life dies, death lives, and nature breeds, Perverse, all monstrous, all prodigious things, Abominable, inutterable, and worse Than fables yet have feigned, or fear conceived, Gorgons and hydras, and chimeras dire.
Página 159 - These are thy glorious works, Parent of good, Almighty ! thine this universal frame, Thus wondrous fair: thyself how wondrous then, Unspeakable ! who sitt'st above these heavens To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works; yet these declare Thy goodness beyond thought, and power divine.
Página 122 - For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man. For the man is not of the woman; but the woman of the man. Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
Página 9 - And reassembling our afflicted powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair.
Página 29 - There went a fame in heaven that he, ere long, Intended to create, and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the sons of heaven : Thither, if but to pry, shall be, perhaps...