The Complete Poems and Major ProseFirst published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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Page 13
... beastβ in ambush on the Seven Hills? Unless your divinity has better gifts in its power, O weaver of plots, I implore you to spare your largess. Without your help, it is true, and without the aid of your infernal gunpowder, the King has ...
... beastβ in ambush on the Seven Hills? Unless your divinity has better gifts in its power, O weaver of plots, I implore you to spare your largess. Without your help, it is true, and without the aid of your infernal gunpowder, the King has ...
Page 17
... beasts; and, though he was impious himself, he bore the pious word of salvation to the wood. land folk, and tamed the wolves and the Libyan lions. Dressed in such a garb the Deceiver, the Serpent, lyingly shaped his execrable lips to ...
... beasts; and, though he was impious himself, he bore the pious word of salvation to the wood. land folk, and tamed the wolves and the Libyan lions. Dressed in such a garb the Deceiver, the Serpent, lyingly shaped his execrable lips to ...
Page 28
... beast opens its maw upon victims that tremble nor does the lion do violence with his rending paw to those who are prostrate.* The cruel hearts of Thracian spearmen have often melted at a suppliant's sad appeals. Outstretched hands avert ...
... beast opens its maw upon victims that tremble nor does the lion do violence with his rending paw to those who are prostrate.* The cruel hearts of Thracian spearmen have often melted at a suppliant's sad appeals. Outstretched hands avert ...
Page 52
... beasts among the lonely caves. So Homer, the spare eater and the water-drinker,β carried Ulysses through vast stretches of ocean, through the monstermaking palace of the daughter of Phoebus and Perseis, through the seas made treacherous ...
... beasts among the lonely caves. So Homer, the spare eater and the water-drinker,β carried Ulysses through vast stretches of ocean, through the monstermaking palace of the daughter of Phoebus and Perseis, through the seas made treacherous ...
Page 87
... Beastsβ in Milton's mask, Puteanus made him the garrulous prophet of the life of revelry. But in the Flemish play there is nothing like the speech of Milton's Comus pleading that the Lady's chastity blasphemes Nature as she pours βher ...
... Beastsβ in Milton's mask, Puteanus made him the garrulous prophet of the life of revelry. But in the Flemish play there is nothing like the speech of Milton's Comus pleading that the Lady's chastity blasphemes Nature as she pours βher ...
Contents
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Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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Adam Aeneid ancient angels Areopagitica Aristotle Beast behold bishops Book called Chorus Christ Christian church Comus dark death delight divine doctrine doth E. M. W. Tillyard Earth Euripides evil eyes faith Father fear fire glory God's goddess gods grace Greek hand happy hast hath heart Heav'n heavenly Hell Hesiod holy honor human John John Milton Jove King Latin meaning learned less light live Lord Lycidas marriage Milton mind Muses nature night Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace perhaps Philistines Plato poem poet praise prelates Psalm Roman Samson Agonistes Satan says Serpent song SONNET soul spake spirit stars stood story sweet thee things thir thou thought Throne tion tradition translation Tree truth verse VIII virtue wings wisdom words Zeus