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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... Verses , prefixed to the Second Edition Author's Preface on " The Verse " TEXT OF THE POEM . Book I. · • Book II . Book III . Book IV . Book V. . Book VI . Book VII . Book VIII . Book IX . Book X. Book XI . Book XII . I 36 · 79 . 127 ...
... Verses , prefixed to the Second Edition Author's Preface on " The Verse " TEXT OF THE POEM . Book I. · • Book II . Book III . Book IV . Book V. . Book VI . Book VII . Book VIII . Book IX . Book X. Book XI . Book XII . I 36 · 79 . 127 ...
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... Verse . I. MILTON'S VOCABULARY . From the tolerably complete verbal Indexes that have been prepared for Milton's Poetical Works , it has been computed that Milton's total vocabulary in these works , to the exclusion of his prose ...
... Verse . I. MILTON'S VOCABULARY . From the tolerably complete verbal Indexes that have been prepared for Milton's Poetical Works , it has been computed that Milton's total vocabulary in these works , to the exclusion of his prose ...
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... verse as into prose . Lastly , a word which is common now may have been far less common at a former period in the history of the language , so that , though it is occasionally to be found in a writer of that period , it is not found so ...
... verse as into prose . Lastly , a word which is common now may have been far less common at a former period in the history of the language , so that , though it is occasionally to be found in a writer of that period , it is not found so ...
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... verse , else , leaves , taste , haste the printed editions here again , I think , agreeing with our modern practice more than the MSS . do . The two last words in the list may be prosecuted more particularly . - In the original edition ...
... verse , else , leaves , taste , haste the printed editions here again , I think , agreeing with our modern practice more than the MSS . do . The two last words in the list may be prosecuted more particularly . - In the original edition ...
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... Verses on King published in 1638 ? What are the claims of these , and of one or two other fragments , orthographically ? Suppose , however , in this absolute impossibility of getting at a standard spelling , we were to agree to adopt ...
... Verses on King published in 1638 ? What are the claims of these , and of one or two other fragments , orthographically ? Suppose , however , in this absolute impossibility of getting at a standard spelling , we were to agree to adopt ...
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.