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Page 18
... songs are there ; In thee fresh brooks and soft streams glance , And all my
fountains clear . 20 PSALM LXXXVIII . i LORD GOD , that dost me save and keep
, All day to thee I cry , And all night long before thee weep , Before thee prostrate
lie .
... songs are there ; In thee fresh brooks and soft streams glance , And all my
fountains clear . 20 PSALM LXXXVIII . i LORD GOD , that dost me save and keep
, All day to thee I cry , And all night long before thee weep , Before thee prostrate
lie .
Page 21
Of sinners hath not stood , and in the seat Of scorners hath not sat ; but in the
great Jehovah's Law is ever his delight , And in his Law he studies day and night
. He shall be as a tree which planted grows By watery streams , and in his season
...
Of sinners hath not stood , and in the seat Of scorners hath not sat ; but in the
great Jehovah's Law is ever his delight , And in his Law he studies day and night
. He shall be as a tree which planted grows By watery streams , and in his season
...
Page 116
722-5 , where the poet , describing the defeat of the Titans by Zeus and their
confinement in Tartarus , says that Tartarus is just as far below the Earth as the
Earth is below Heaven , and that , as it would take a brass anvil nine days and
nights ...
722-5 , where the poet , describing the defeat of the Titans by Zeus and their
confinement in Tartarus , says that Tartarus is just as far below the Earth as the
Earth is below Heaven , and that , as it would take a brass anvil nine days and
nights ...
Page 119
... phrase from the ancient geography , which supposed a sea flowing round and
round the habitable circle of Earth . 204. " night - foundered . " Milton has this
exact word once besides , Comus , 483 : “ Some one like us night - foundered
here .
... phrase from the ancient geography , which supposed a sea flowing round and
round the habitable circle of Earth . 204. " night - foundered . " Milton has this
exact word once besides , Comus , 483 : “ Some one like us night - foundered
here .
Page 120
i 1 he uses the word in the same sense , i.e. brought to a stand by the coming on
of night . The usual meaning of the word is to sink , or go to the bottom ( fundus ) ;
but one can see the idea of the metaphorswallowed up and lost in the darkness ...
i 1 he uses the word in the same sense , i.e. brought to a stand by the coming on
of night . The usual meaning of the word is to sink , or go to the bottom ( fundus ) ;
but one can see the idea of the metaphorswallowed up and lost in the darkness ...
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| Title | The Poetical Works of John Milton |
| Author | John Mitford |
| Editors | John Mitford, David Masson |
| Publisher | J. R. Osgood, 1874 |
| Original from | the University of Wisconsin - Madison |
| Digitized | 10 Nov 2016 |
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