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, Volume 1W. Baxter, 1824 |
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... heaven , but tells them lastly of a new world and new kind of creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven ; for that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient Fa ...
... heaven , but tells them lastly of a new world and new kind of creature to be created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven ; for that Angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient Fa ...
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... heaven and hell is very proper in this place , as the scene of so great a part of the poem is laid sometimes in hell , and some- times in heaven . 32. For one restraint , ] For one thing that was restrained , every thing else being ...
... heaven and hell is very proper in this place , as the scene of so great a part of the poem is laid sometimes in hell , and some- times in heaven . 32. For one restraint , ] For one thing that was restrained , every thing else being ...
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... heaven . So spake th ' apostate Angel , though in pain , Vaunting aloud , but rack'd with deep despair : And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer . O Prince , O Chief of many throned Powers , That led th ' embattled Seraphim to war ...
... heaven . So spake th ' apostate Angel , though in pain , Vaunting aloud , but rack'd with deep despair : And him thus answer'd soon his bold compeer . O Prince , O Chief of many throned Powers , That led th ' embattled Seraphim to war ...
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... heaven ; and after he has expelled them , and hell has closed upon them , vi . 880 . Sole victor from th ' expulsion of his foes Messiah his triumphal chariot turn'd : To meet him all his saints , who silent stood Eye - witnesses of his ...
... heaven ; and after he has expelled them , and hell has closed upon them , vi . 880 . Sole victor from th ' expulsion of his foes Messiah his triumphal chariot turn'd : To meet him all his saints , who silent stood Eye - witnesses of his ...
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... heaven . But wherefore let we then our faithful friends , Th ' associates and copartners of our loss , Lie thus astonish'd on th ' oblivious pool , And call them not to share with us their part In this unhappy mansion , or once more ...
... heaven . But wherefore let we then our faithful friends , Th ' associates and copartners of our loss , Lie thus astonish'd on th ' oblivious pool , And call them not to share with us their part In this unhappy mansion , or once more ...
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Page 213 - As when to them who sail Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past Mozambic, off at sea north-east winds blow Sabean odours from the spicy shore Of Araby the Blest; with, such delay Well pleased they slack their course, and many a league Cheer'd with the grateful smell old Ocean smiles...
Page 2 - Dove-like sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant : what in me is dark Illumine, what is low raise and support ; That, to the height of this great argument, I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men.
Page 7 - A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace flamed; yet from those flames No light; but rather darkness visible Served only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all, but torture without end Still urges, and a fiery deluge, fed With ever-burning sulphur unconsumed.
Page 6 - 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.
Page 19 - 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...
Page 251 - Unargued I obey: So God ordains: God is thy law, thou mine: To know no more Is woman's happiest knowledge, and her praise.
Page 146 - 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.
Page 113 - 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.
Page 151 - 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...
Page 127 - 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.