Paradise Lost ...The University Press, 1902 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
accent Adam Æneid allusion Almighty Anatomy of Melancholy Angels appears Appendix Archangel beast behold blank verse bright Cædmon Cambridge Chaos chorus Church Government classical Comus Creation creatures Crystalline Sphere divine drama dwell Earth edition Elizabethan Empyrean English epic fall firmament Genesis Genesis ii globe Greek hast hath Heaven Heavenly Hell honour Italian Julius Cæsar Latin light lines Lucifer Lycidas Mark Pattison metre Milton Moon motion Muse noun P. L. VII Paradise Lost participles passage perhaps planets poem poet poetry Primum Mobile prose Psalm Ptolemaic Ptolemaic system Raphael refers rhyme rhythm Richard III Samson Agonistes Satan says scene seems sense serpent Shakespeare Sonnet sound spake speaks Spenser spirit stars syllable thee thence things thou thought tragedy trochee Urania verb Vergil VIII Vondel vowel wandering waters wings words World writers
Passagens conhecidas
Página xxi - O, for my sake do you with Fortune chide, The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds, That did not better for my life provide Than public means which public manners breeds. Thence comes it that my name receives a brand, And almost thence my nature is subdued To what it works in, like the dyer's hand.
Página 64 - Lo, the poor Indian ! whose untutored mind Sees GOD in clouds, or hears Him in the wind ; His soul proud science never taught to stray Far as the solar walk or Milky Way...
Página xx - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things ought himself to be a true poem ; that is, a composition and pattern of the best and honourablest things; not presuming to sing high praises of heroic men, or famous cities, unless he have in himself the experience and the practice of all that which is praiseworthy.
Página xxv - How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year ! My hasting days fly on with full career, But my late spring no bud or blossom shew'th.
Página 53 - When even at last the solemn hour shall come, And wing my mystic flight to future worlds, I cheerful will obey; there, with new powers, Will rising wonders sing. I cannot go Where universal love not smiles around, Sustaining all yon orbs, and all their suns; From seeming evil still educing good, And better thence again, and better still, In infinite progression.
Página 82 - This is dispensed ; and what surmounts the reach Of human sense I shall delineate so, By likening spiritual to corporal forms, As may express them best ; though what if earth Be but the shadow of heaven, and things therein Each to other like, more than on earth is thought...
Página 41 - 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 52 - And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone : and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
Página xvi - BOTH ENGLISH AND LATIN, Compos'd at several times. Printed by his true Copies. The Songs were set in Musick by Mr. HENRY LAWES, Gentleman of the Kings Chappel, and one of His Majesties Private Musick. Printed and publish'd according to Order. Printed by RUTH RAWORTH for HUMPHREY MOSELEY, and are to be sold at the signe of the Princes Armes in Pauls Churchyard, 1645, See also Little Library, Standard Library, and RF Towndrow.
Página 39 - Of nuptial sanctity and marriage rites : Grace was in all her steps, Heaven in her eye, In every gesture dignity and love.