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... bound to make oath before a Master in Chancery concern- ing his or their knowledge and belief of , or concerning the truth of , the disposing and selling the said books by retail as aforesaid whereby the said Mr. Milton is to be ...
... bound to make oath before a Master in Chancery concern- ing his or their knowledge and belief of , or concerning the truth of , the disposing and selling the said books by retail as aforesaid whereby the said Mr. Milton is to be ...
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... bound , it was easy to cancel the first title - page and provide a new one , with a new date if necessary , for the remaining copies . The probability is that these considera- tions will be found to affect all our early printed books ...
... bound , it was easy to cancel the first title - page and provide a new one , with a new date if necessary , for the remaining copies . The probability is that these considera- tions will be found to affect all our early printed books ...
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... bound up with all the rest of the poems under the general title of " The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton . ” This edition was accom- panied by what is in reality the first commentary on the poem , and one of the best . It consists of ...
... bound up with all the rest of the poems under the general title of " The Poetical Works of Mr. John Milton . ” This edition was accom- panied by what is in reality the first commentary on the poem , and one of the best . It consists of ...
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... bounds of this Starry Universe ; so that , if there is any peculiarity in Milton's conception of the interior arrangements of this Universe , that peculiarity must be understood before many parts of the poem are intelligible . Such a ...
... bounds of this Starry Universe ; so that , if there is any peculiarity in Milton's conception of the interior arrangements of this Universe , that peculiarity must be understood before many parts of the poem are intelligible . Such a ...
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... bounds of Eden or of Paradise , the reader can without difficulty make out for himself ; or any such incidental elucidation as may be requisite may be left for the Notes . It is necessary only to take account here of certain final ...
... bounds of Eden or of Paradise , the reader can without difficulty make out for himself ; or any such incidental elucidation as may be requisite may be left for the Notes . It is necessary only to take account here of certain final ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Adam Adam and Eve Aldersgate Street Almighty Angels Archangel arms beast Beelzebub behold blindness bliss BOOK burning lake called celestial Chaos Cherub Cherubim cloud created creatures dark death deep delight divine dreadful dwell Earth Empyrean eternal evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith Father fear Fiend fierce fire flowers fruit gates glory gods grace hand happy hath heart Heaven Heavenly Hell highth hill human Ithuriel John Milton King labour less lest light live mankind Messiah Milton mind night o'er pain Paradise Lost peace poem Primum Mobile Ptolemaic system reign replied round sapience Satan seat seemed Serpent shalt sight Simmons soon sovran spake Sphere Spirits starry stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thought throne thyself tree Universe voice whence wings wonder words World Zephon
Passagens conhecidas
Página 123 - 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, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and, for the book of knowledge fair, Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 50 So much the rather thou. Celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate; there plant eyes; all mist from thence Purge and disperse,...
Página 122 - 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...
Página 178 - Angels — for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night, Circle his throne rejoicing — ye in Heaven ; On Earth join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
Página 178 - Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Página 19 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth, or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist, or the trencher fury of a riming parasite, nor to be obtained by the invocation of Dame Memory and her Siren Daughters, but by devout prayer to that Eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim with the hallowed fire of his altar to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases.
Página 68 - Sing, heavenly 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 heavens and earth Rose out of chaos: or if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God; I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme...
Página 178 - Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle multiform, and mix And nourish all things, let your ceaseless change Vary to our great Maker still new praise.
Página 89 - Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress, and nearer to the earth Wheels her pale course; they on their mirth and dance Intent, with jocund music charm his ear; At once with joy and fear his heart rebounds.
Página 99 - Aspect he rose, and in his rising seemed A pillar of state. Deep on his front engraven Deliberation sat, and public care ; And princely counsel in his face yet shone, Majestic, though in ruin. Sage he stood, With Atlantean l shoulders, fit to bear The weight of mightiest monarchies • his look Drew audience and attention still as night Or summer's noontide air...
Página 55 - Thus talking, hand in hand alone they passed On to their blissful bower; it was a place Chosen by the sovereign planter, when He framed All things to man's delightful use: the roof Of thickest covert, was inwoven shade, Laurel and myrtle, and what higher grew Of firm and fragrant leaf; on either side Acanthus and each odorous bushy shrub Fenced up the verdant wall, each beauteous flower, Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine, Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; under foot...