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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... Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton John Milton Edward Hawkins. * POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON , WITH NOTES OF VARIOUS.
... Authors, Principally from the Edition of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster, and Thomas Warton, to which is Prefixed, Newton's Life of Milton John Milton Edward Hawkins. * POETICAL WORKS OF JOHN MILTON , WITH NOTES OF VARIOUS.
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... Milton John Milton. Sotheran 1-6-24 9307 4 vols . Prefaces CONTENTS . VOL . I. Life of Milton Milton's Nuncupative Will Commendatory Verses Paradise Lost , Book I. to VI . VOL . II . Paradise Lost , Book VII . to XII . Postscript ...
... Milton John Milton. Sotheran 1-6-24 9307 4 vols . Prefaces CONTENTS . VOL . I. Life of Milton Milton's Nuncupative Will Commendatory Verses Paradise Lost , Book I. to VI . VOL . II . Paradise Lost , Book VII . to XII . Postscript ...
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... Milton John Milton. PREFACE . I. OF THIS EDITION OF MILTON'S POEMS . OF MILTON . II . OF THE LIVES THE editions of Milton's poetical works by Dr. New- ton , afterwards Bishop of Bristol , which have long been held in general esteem ...
... Milton John Milton. PREFACE . I. OF THIS EDITION OF MILTON'S POEMS . OF MILTON . II . OF THE LIVES THE editions of Milton's poetical works by Dr. New- ton , afterwards Bishop of Bristol , which have long been held in general esteem ...
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... Milton John Milton. the Paradise Lost . It was thought desirable , accord- ingly , that some additions should be made in the pre- sent work to this part of the commentary from the editions of Mr. Dunster and Mr. Warton , the principal ...
... Milton John Milton. the Paradise Lost . It was thought desirable , accord- ingly , that some additions should be made in the pre- sent work to this part of the commentary from the editions of Mr. Dunster and Mr. Warton , the principal ...
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... Milton John Milton. lar superstitions and romances , with which Milton was familiar , but many of which are now forgotten . As this was a new line of criticism , and was first struck out , if I mistake not , by Warton himself in his ...
... Milton John Milton. lar superstitions and romances , with which Milton was familiar , but many of which are now forgotten . As this was a new line of criticism , and was first struck out , if I mistake not , by Warton himself in his ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.