The Poetical Works of John Milton. Edited, with Introductions, Notes, and an Essay on Milton's English by David Masson, Volume 1London, 1874 - 613 páginas |
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... Poet . The NOTES are partly expository , partly philological , and partly critical ; and the principles on which they have been prepared , and the amount of use made in them of the Notes of previous Editors , are explained at pp . 101 ...
... Poet . The NOTES are partly expository , partly philological , and partly critical ; and the principles on which they have been prepared , and the amount of use made in them of the Notes of previous Editors , are explained at pp . 101 ...
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... Poet . " This Index included the Greek , Latin , and Italian poems , as well as the English . ( 2 ) " A Complete Con- cordance to Milton's Poetical Works , by G. Lushington Prendergast , " published in twelve quarto parts at Madras in ...
... Poet . " This Index included the Greek , Latin , and Italian poems , as well as the English . ( 2 ) " A Complete Con- cordance to Milton's Poetical Works , by G. Lushington Prendergast , " published in twelve quarto parts at Madras in ...
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... poet's mood and the nature of his matter at particular moments . Passages may be hit on , or may be selected - and not those only which abound in proper names - where the percentage of Saxon falls as low as 70 or lower . The principle ...
... poet's mood and the nature of his matter at particular moments . Passages may be hit on , or may be selected - and not those only which abound in proper names - where the percentage of Saxon falls as low as 70 or lower . The principle ...
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... poet himself . How far Mr. Marsh is right may appear from the following list of the words or verbal forms in Milton's poetry which I have noted as either obsolete or unusual now - acquist ( acquisition , S. A. 1755 ) , adamantéan ...
... poet himself . How far Mr. Marsh is right may appear from the following list of the words or verbal forms in Milton's poetry which I have noted as either obsolete or unusual now - acquist ( acquisition , S. A. 1755 ) , adamantéan ...
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... poets ; and there is no poet of the present day who would not use some of the others if they occurred to him , or who would not feel himself at liberty to invent similarly unusual words for himself . The indisputably obsolete words of ...
... poets ; and there is no poet of the present day who would not use some of the others if they occurred to him , or who would not feel himself at liberty to invent similarly unusual words for himself . The indisputably obsolete words of ...
Palavras e frases frequentes
Adam Adam and Eve Aldersgate Street Angels appeared arms behold Blank Verse blind bliss Bunhill Fields Cæsura called Chaos copies dark daughters death delight divine Earth edition of Paradise Empyrean English eternal evil eyes fair Father fear fire fruit glory hand happy hast hath Heaven Heavenly Hell highth hill Iambus Jacob Tonson John Milton King Latin light lines live Milton mind night once pain Paradise Lost Paradise Regained passage perhaps Petty France poem poet Poetical poetry possessive printed pronunciation reign rhyme round Samson Agonistes Satan seems Serpent Shakespeare sight Simmons soon Sotheby's sound spake spelling Sphere Spirits Spondee stars stood sweet syllable syntax taste thee thence things thou thought throne Tonson tree Trochee Universe whence wings wonder words World writing ха ха
Passagens conhecidas
Página 136 - 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 ? That glory never shall his wrath or might 110 Extort from me.
Página 158 - HIGH on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold...
Página 139 - Thus Satan talking to his nearest mate With head uplift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blazed, his other parts besides Prone on the flood, extended long and large Lay floating many a rood...
Página 363 - 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.
Página 105 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. 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, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Página 191 - Eternal coeternal 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 10 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 48 - 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 221 - If true, here only — and of delicious taste. Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock ; or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.
Página 336 - All higher Knowledge in her presence falls Degraded ; Wisdom in discourse with her Loses discountenanced, and like Folly shows; Authority and Reason on her wait, As one intended first, not after made Occasionally; and to consummate all, Greatness of mind and nobleness their seat Build in her loveliest, and create an awe About her, as a guard angelic placed.
Página 177 - As, when far off at sea, a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.