The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton, Volumen1W. Baxter, 1824 |
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... derive his information from Milton's own writings , from a person who had been his amanuensis , from his daughter , and a letter written by his widow , from the papers of one of his nephews , and conversation with the other , 22 PREFACE .
... derive his information from Milton's own writings , from a person who had been his amanuensis , from his daughter , and a letter written by his widow , from the papers of one of his nephews , and conversation with the other , 22 PREFACE .
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... person whose authority is to be followed implicitly . From all the most considerable of his predecessors , Bp . Newton introduced into his narrative nearly every thing that was most deserving of notice . And it will have already ...
... person whose authority is to be followed implicitly . From all the most considerable of his predecessors , Bp . Newton introduced into his narrative nearly every thing that was most deserving of notice . And it will have already ...
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... persons , whose names are unknown , and others , whose names I am not at liberty to mention : but I hope the Speaker of the House of Commons will pardon my ambition to have it known , that he has been pleased to suggest some useful ...
... persons , whose names are unknown , and others , whose names I am not at liberty to mention : but I hope the Speaker of the House of Commons will pardon my ambition to have it known , that he has been pleased to suggest some useful ...
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... persons , who pass in the world for profound scholars , know little more of books than title pages and indexes , but never catch the spirit of an author , which is sure always to evaporate or die in such hands . The former of these ...
... persons , who pass in the world for profound scholars , know little more of books than title pages and indexes , but never catch the spirit of an author , which is sure always to evaporate or die in such hands . The former of these ...
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... persons of the name of Milton . The Registers go back to the year 1550. It is traditionally believed VOL . I. in the place , that a large house yet standing there belonged to the family of Milton , but Mr. Ellis , the vicar , could not ...
... persons of the name of Milton . The Registers go back to the year 1550. It is traditionally believed VOL . I. in the place , that a large house yet standing there belonged to the family of Milton , but Mr. Ellis , the vicar , could not ...
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Adam Addison Æneid ancient angels Anne Milton appears arms b. i. cant battle beauty Belial Bentley Bentley reads better bright called Chaos Chimæra Comus darkness death divine doth earth edition eternal expression Faery Queen Father fire gates glory gods golden hast hath heaven hell hill Homer honour host Hume Iliad imitation infernal Italian John Milton King Latin learned light likewise living Lord manner Milton Moloch morning night notes o'er observes Ovid pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage Pearce poem poet poetical poetry pow'r printed quæ reader remarks Richardson Samson Agonistes Satan says Scripture seem'd seems sense Shakespeare shew sight Smectymnuus spake speaking speech Spenser spirit stars stood sublime Tasso thee things thou thought throne Thyer tion Todd translation verse Virg Virgil Warton wings word δε
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Página 14 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Página 25 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd, his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Página 263 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Página 27 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Página 160 - Or of the eternal co-eternal 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 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 127 - And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
Página 165 - Tunes her nocturnal note : 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...
Página 141 - Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere He rules a moment : Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Página 308 - 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 334 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours ; Differing but in degree, of kind the same.