The Poetical Works of John Milton with a Life of the Author: Preliminary Dissertations on Each Poem; Notes Critical and Explanatory; and Index to the Subjects of Paradise Lost; and a Verbal Index to All the PoemsSampson Low, Son, and Marston, 1865 - 688 páginas |
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... earth , as the heaven is above the earth . Virgil ( Æn . vi . 578 ) makes it twice as far , and Milton thrice as far : as if these three great poets had stretched their utmost genius , and vied with each other , who should extend his ...
... earth , as the heaven is above the earth . Virgil ( Æn . vi . 578 ) makes it twice as far , and Milton thrice as far : as if these three great poets had stretched their utmost genius , and vied with each other , who should extend his ...
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... earth For treasures better hid . Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound , And digg'd out ribs of gold . Let none admire That riches grow in hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane . And here let those Who ...
... earth For treasures better hid . Soon had his crew Open'd into the hill a spacious wound , And digg'd out ribs of gold . Let none admire That riches grow in hell ; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane . And here let those Who ...
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... Earth's giant sons , Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless , like that Pygmëan race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves , Whose midnight revels , by a forest side , Or fountain , some belated peasant sees ...
... Earth's giant sons , Now less than smallest dwarfs , in narrow room Throng numberless , like that Pygmëan race Beyond the Indian mount ; or faery elves , Whose midnight revels , by a forest side , Or fountain , some belated peasant sees ...
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... earth hang- ng in the sea of air . " He stretcheth out the north over the empty place , and hangeth the earth upon nothing . " - Job xxvi . 7 . 439 Unessential . Void of being , as 455 darkness approaches nearest to non- entity . 445 ...
... earth hang- ng in the sea of air . " He stretcheth out the north over the empty place , and hangeth the earth upon nothing . " - Job xxvi . 7 . 439 Unessential . Void of being , as 455 darkness approaches nearest to non- entity . 445 ...
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... Earth with the sur- rounding heavens encroached on them , 1035 as formed out of Chaos for the residence of man . That is , the substance from which Hell and Earth were formed , bo- longed , before the " intestine broils " took place in ...
... Earth with the sur- rounding heavens encroached on them , 1035 as formed out of Chaos for the residence of man . That is , the substance from which Hell and Earth were formed , bo- longed , before the " intestine broils " took place in ...
Términos y frases comunes
Adam Adam and Eve ancient angels Arethuse arms beautiful behold bliss bright BRYDGES call'd clouds Comus Dagon dark death deep delight divine dread dwell earth eternal evil eyes fair Father fear fruit glory gods grace hand happy hath heart heaven heavenly hell highth hill honour Il Penseroso King L'Allegro less light live Lord Lycidas Messiah Milton mind morning night nymph o'er Paradise Lost Paradise Regained pass'd peace Philistines poem poet poetical poetry praise reign replied return'd round Samson Samson Agonistes Satan Saviour seat seem'd serpent shade shalt sight Son of God song SONNET soon soul spake spirits stars stood strength sublime sweet taste thee thence thine things thou art thou hast thought throne thyself tion tree turn'd vex'd virtue voice WARTON whence winds wings wonder words
Pasajes populares
Página 458 - Through the dear might of Him that walk'd the waves, Where, other groves and other streams along, With nectar pure his oozy locks he laves, And hears the unexpressive nuptial song In the blest kingdoms meek of joy and love.
Página 463 - Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go, On the light fantastic toe...
Página 466 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry ; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. 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.
Página 466 - And, stretched out all the chimney's length, Basks at the fire his hairy strength ; And, crop-full, out of doors he flings, Ere the first cock his matin rings.
Página 67 - Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 405 - 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.
Página 66 - HAIL, holy Light, offspring of Heaven first-born! Or of the Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity, dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell?
Página 232 - This novelty on earth, this fair defect Of nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine; Or find some other way to generate Mankind?
Página 66 - Eternal coeternal beam May I express thee unblamed? since God is light, And never but in unapproached light Dwelt from eternity — -dwelt then in thee, Bright effluence of bright essence increate ! Or hear'st thou rather pure Ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell? Before the Sun, Before the Heavens, thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest 10 The rising World of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless Infinite...
Página 464 - Through the sweet-briar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine ; While the cock, with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And, to the stack or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before : Oft listening how the hounds and horn Cheerly rouse the slumbering Morn, From the side of some hoar hill, Through the high wood echoing shrill.