The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Volume 5J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... wilderness . " The Invocation of the Holy Spirit is equally devout and po- etical . The Baptifm of John carries us with the beft effect in medias res . Satan's Infernal Council is briefly , but finely , affem- bled ; his fpeech is ...
... wilderness . " The Invocation of the Holy Spirit is equally devout and po- etical . The Baptifm of John carries us with the beft effect in medias res . Satan's Infernal Council is briefly , but finely , affem- bled ; his fpeech is ...
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... wilderness . The poet , in the mean time , makes Satan return to his infernal council , to report the bad fuccefs of his firft attempt , and to demand their counfel , and affiftance , in an enterprise of so much difficulty . This he ...
... wilderness . The poet , in the mean time , makes Satan return to his infernal council , to report the bad fuccefs of his firft attempt , and to demand their counfel , and affiftance , in an enterprise of so much difficulty . This he ...
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... wilderness , the Poem advances towards the heighth of its argument . Our Saviour's paffing the night is well defcribed . The coming on of morn is a beautiful counterpart of " night coming on in the defart , " which fo finely clofed the ...
... wilderness , the Poem advances towards the heighth of its argument . Our Saviour's paffing the night is well defcribed . The coming on of morn is a beautiful counterpart of " night coming on in the defart , " which fo finely clofed the ...
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... wilderness , " And call fwift flights of Angels miniftrant , 26 Array'd in glory , on my cup to attend . " This part of the Book in particular is so highly finished , that I could wish it had concluded , as it might well have done ...
... wilderness , " And call fwift flights of Angels miniftrant , 26 Array'd in glory , on my cup to attend . " This part of the Book in particular is so highly finished , that I could wish it had concluded , as it might well have done ...
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... wilderness , while he is meditating on the commencement of his great office of Saviour of Mankind . Pursuing his meditations he nar- rates , in a foliloquy , what devine and philanthropick impulfes he had felt from his early youth , and ...
... wilderness , while he is meditating on the commencement of his great office of Saviour of Mankind . Pursuing his meditations he nar- rates , in a foliloquy , what devine and philanthropick impulfes he had felt from his early youth , and ...
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Page 157 - They err, who count it glorious to subdue By conquest far and wide, to overrun Large countries, and in field great battles win, Great cities by assault : what do these worthies, But rob and spoil, burn, slaughter, and enslave Peaceable nations, neighbouring or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors...
Page 446 - But patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each his own deliverer, And victor over all That tyranny or fortune can inflict.
Page 467 - Farewell! a long farewell, to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 481 - 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.
Page 351 - Let there be light, and light was over all; Why am I thus bereaved thy prime decree? The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.
Page 155 - Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise ? They praise, and they admire, they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other ; And what delight to be by such extoll'd, To live upon their tongues, and be their talk, Of whom to be dispraised were no small praise ? His lot who dares be singularly good.
Page 8 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 431 - Look now for no enchanting voice, nor fear The bait of honied words; a rougher tongue Draws hitherward, I know him by his stride, The giant Harapha of Gath, his look Haughty as is his pile high-built and proud.
Page 318 - The circumscription of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends, is according to ancient rule, and best example, within the space of twenty-four hours.
Page 369 - But what more oft in nations grown corrupt, And by their vices brought to servitude, Than to love bondage more than liberty, Bondage with ease than strenuous liberty; And to despise, or envy, or suspect Whom GOD hath of His special favour raised As their deliverer?