The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton, Volume 1W. Baxter, 1824 |
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... night desire to be subjoined to Bp . Newton's Life ; and their relative value will sufficiently appear from the preceding list of Milton's biographers . And if some of these notes should seem to be at vari- ance with this account of ...
... night desire to be subjoined to Bp . Newton's Life ; and their relative value will sufficiently appear from the preceding list of Milton's biographers . And if some of these notes should seem to be at vari- ance with this account of ...
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... night , and the principal parts , those of the two brothers , were performed by his Lordship's sons the Lord Brackly and Mr. Thomas Egerton , and that of the lady by his Lordship's daughter the Lady Alice Egerton . The occasion of this ...
... night , and the principal parts , those of the two brothers , were performed by his Lordship's sons the Lord Brackly and Mr. Thomas Egerton , and that of the lady by his Lordship's daughter the Lady Alice Egerton . The occasion of this ...
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... night as by day , seems nearer " to the whitish than the blackish ; and the eye - rolling " itself a little , seems to admit I know not what little " smallness of light as through a chink . " But it does not appear what answer he ...
... night as by day , seems nearer " to the whitish than the blackish ; and the eye - rolling " itself a little , seems to admit I know not what little " smallness of light as through a chink . " But it does not appear what answer he ...
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... night before , concerning the ruptures of the commonwealth ; and another as it is supposed to General Monk , being a brief Delineation of a free commonwealth , easy to be put in practice , and without delay . These two pieces were ...
... night before , concerning the ruptures of the commonwealth ; and another as it is supposed to General Monk , being a brief Delineation of a free commonwealth , easy to be put in practice , and without delay . These two pieces were ...
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... nights . He then kept himself as private as he could . This Dr. Tancred Robinson had from a relation of Milton's , Mr. Walker of the Temple . And this is what is intimated by him- self , P. L. vii . 26 . On evil days though fallen , and ...
... nights . He then kept himself as private as he could . This Dr. Tancred Robinson had from a relation of Milton's , Mr. Walker of the Temple . And this is what is intimated by him- self , P. L. vii . 26 . On evil days though fallen , and ...
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Page 14 - Hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal sky With hideous ruin and combustion down To bottomless perdition, there to dwell In adamantine* chains and penal fire, Who durst defy the Omnipotent to arms.
Page 25 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift above the wave, and eyes That sparkling blaz'd, his other parts besides, Prone on the flood, extended long and large, Lay floating many a rood...
Page 263 - Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 27 - 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 160 - Or of the eternal co-eternal 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 The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Page 127 - And shook a dreadful dart ; what seem'd his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on. Satan was now at hand, and from his seat The monster moving onward came as fast With horrid strides; Hell trembled as he strode.
Page 165 - 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...
Page 141 - Their lighter wings. To whom these most adhere He rules a moment : Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 308 - Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise Him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Page 334 - To vital spirits aspire, to animal, To intellectual ; give both life and sense, Fancy and understanding; whence the soul Reason receives, and reason is her being, Discursive or intuitive ; discourse Is oftest yours, the latter most is ours ; Differing but in degree, of kind the same.