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 2W. Baxter, 1824 |
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... Father , pleas'd With thy celestial song . Up led by thee Into the heav'n of heav'ns I have presum'd , An earthly guest , and drawn empyreal air , Thy temp'ring ; with like safety guided down Return me to my native element : Lest from ...
... Father , pleas'd With thy celestial song . Up led by thee Into the heav'n of heav'ns I have presum'd , An earthly guest , and drawn empyreal air , Thy temp'ring ; with like safety guided down Return me to my native element : Lest from ...
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... it is said of the day of judgment , Matt . xxiv . 36. Of that day and hour know- eth no man , no not the angels of Fell with his flaming legions through the deep Into his 29 . heaven , but my Father only . BOOK VII . 13 PARADISE LOST .
... it is said of the day of judgment , Matt . xxiv . 36. Of that day and hour know- eth no man , no not the angels of Fell with his flaming legions through the deep Into his 29 . heaven , but my Father only . BOOK VII . 13 PARADISE LOST .
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... Father from his throne beheld Their multitude , and to his Son thus spake . At least our envious foe hath fail'd , who thought All like himself rebellious , by whose aid 135 140 This inaccessible high strength , the seat Of deity ...
... Father from his throne beheld Their multitude , and to his Son thus spake . At least our envious foe hath fail'd , who thought All like himself rebellious , by whose aid 135 140 This inaccessible high strength , the seat Of deity ...
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... Father , sur- rounded with an host of angels , and clothed with such a majesty as becomes his entering upon a Ε . πυρί χειρας εοικε , μενος δ ' αιθων work , which according to our σιδηρο . and Iliad . xii . 127 . Το σαριζέμεναι , ατε ...
... Father , sur- rounded with an host of angels , and clothed with such a majesty as becomes his entering upon a Ε . πυρί χειρας εοικε , μενος δ ' αιθων work , which according to our σιδηρο . and Iliad . xii . 127 . Το σαριζέμεναι , ατε ...
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... Father in him shone . About his chariot numberless were pour'd Cherub and Seraph , potentates and thrones , And virtues , winged Spi'rits , and chariots wing'd From th ' armoury of God , where stand of old Myriads between two brazen ...
... Father in him shone . About his chariot numberless were pour'd Cherub and Seraph , potentates and thrones , And virtues , winged Spi'rits , and chariots wing'd From th ' armoury of God , where stand of old Myriads between two brazen ...
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Page 163 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 271 - And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne. And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel's hand.
Page 59 - He telleth the number of the stars ; he calleth them all by their names.
Page 378 - I fell asleep: but now lead on; In me is no delay; with thee to go Is to stay here; without thee here to stay Is to go hence unwilling; thou to me Art all things under heav'n, all places thou, Who for my wilful crime art banished hence.
Page 62 - To ask or search, I blame thee not; for heaven Is as the book of God before thee set, Wherein to read his wondrous works...
Page 106 - I now must change Those notes to tragic ; foul distrust, and breach Disloyal on the part of man, revolt, And disobedience : on the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste, Anger and just rebuke, and judgment given ; That brought into this world a world of woe, Sin and her shadow Death, and misery Death's harbinger.
Page 296 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Page 178 - And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.
Page 396 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Page 111 - Nor skill'd nor studious, higher argument "Remains ; sufficient of itself to raise That name, unless an age too late, or cold Climate, or years damp my intended wing Depress'd ; and much they may, if all be mine, Not hers, who brings it nightly to my ear.