Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author. With a Critical Dissertation, on the Poetical Works of Milton, and Observations on His Language and Versification, Volumes 1-2J. Parsons, 1796 |
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... the sublimity of his mind , he gives delight by its fertility . Whatever be his subject , he never fails to fill the imagination . But his images and descrip- tions of the scenes or operations of Nature , do İviii DISSERTATION ON.
... the sublimity of his mind , he gives delight by its fertility . Whatever be his subject , he never fails to fill the imagination . But his images and descrip- tions of the scenes or operations of Nature , do İviii DISSERTATION ON.
Page lxvii
... give them any real employment , or ascribe to them any material agency , is to make them allego- rical no longer , but to shock the mind by as- cribing effects to non - entity . In the Prometheus of Eschylus , we see Violence and ...
... give them any real employment , or ascribe to them any material agency , is to make them allego- rical no longer , but to shock the mind by as- cribing effects to non - entity . In the Prometheus of Eschylus , we see Violence and ...
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... give not Heav'n for lost . From this descent Celestial virtues rising , will appear More glorious and more dread than from no fall , And trust themselves to fear no second fate . Me , tho ' just right , and the fix'd laws of Heav'n VOL ...
... give not Heav'n for lost . From this descent Celestial virtues rising , will appear More glorious and more dread than from no fall , And trust themselves to fear no second fate . Me , tho ' just right , and the fix'd laws of Heav'n VOL ...
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... give it , or will ever . How he can Is doubtful ; that he never will is sure . Will he so wise , let loose at once his ire , Belike through impotence , or unaware , To give his enemies their wish , and end Them in his anger , whom his ...
... give it , or will ever . How he can Is doubtful ; that he never will is sure . Will he so wise , let loose at once his ire , Belike through impotence , or unaware , To give his enemies their wish , and end Them in his anger , whom his ...
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... give thee ; reign for ever , and assume Thy merits ; under thee as Head Supreme Thrones , Princedoms , Pow'rs , Dominions I re- duce : 320 All knees to thee shall bow , of them that bide In Heav'n , or Earth , or under Earth in Hell ...
... give thee ; reign for ever , and assume Thy merits ; under thee as Head Supreme Thrones , Princedoms , Pow'rs , Dominions I re- duce : 320 All knees to thee shall bow , of them that bide In Heav'n , or Earth , or under Earth in Hell ...
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Abdiel Adam Almighty Angels appear'd arm'd arms beast Beelzebub behold Belial bliss bright call'd Cherubim Chimæra cloud Comus creatures dark death deep delight divine dread dwell Epic Poetry eternal ev'ning ev'ry evil eyes fair Father fire flow'rs fruit gates giv'n glory Gods grace hand happy hath Heav'n heav'nly Hell hill Iliad JOHN MILTON King light live Lord mankind Martin Bucer Milton mind Moloch morn Newton night o'er pain PARADISE LOST Paradise Regained pass'd pleas'd Poem Poet pow'r praise rais'd reign reply'd return'd round Satan says seem'd Serpent shalt sight Smectymnuus soon Sp'rits spake Spirit stars stood sweet taste Telassar Thammuz thee thence thine things thou hast thoughts thro throne thyself tow'rds tree turn'd vex'd Virgil voice wand'ring whence wings words
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Page 3 - OF Man's First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal taste Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 23 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page xix - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 74 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 9 - And reassembling our afflicted powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair.
Page 74 - Those other two, equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 10 - 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 104 - What feign'd submission swore? Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Page 103 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Page 74 - 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 ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...