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 2 |
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25 More safe I sing with mortal voice , unchang'd To hoarse or mute , though fall'n
on evil days , On evil days though fall'n , and evil tongues ; In darkness , and with
dangers compass'd round , And solitude ; yet not alone , while thou Visit'st my ...
25 More safe I sing with mortal voice , unchang'd To hoarse or mute , though fall'n
on evil days , On evil days though fall'n , and evil tongues ; In darkness , and with
dangers compass'd round , And solitude ; yet not alone , while thou Visit'st my ...
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God saw the light was good ; And light from darkness by the hemisphere Divided
: light the day , and darkness night He nam'd . Thus was the first day ev'n and
morn : Nor past uncelebrated , nor unsung By the celestial quires , when orient ...
God saw the light was good ; And light from darkness by the hemisphere Divided
: light the day , and darkness night He nam'd . Thus was the first day ev'n and
morn : Nor past uncelebrated , nor unsung By the celestial quires , when orient ...
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985 Whom thus the prince of darkness answer'd glad . Fair daughter , and thou
son and grandchild both , High proof ye now have giv'n to be the race Of Satan , (
for I glory in the name , Antagonist of heav'n's almighty King , ) Amply have ...
985 Whom thus the prince of darkness answer'd glad . Fair daughter , and thou
son and grandchild both , High proof ye now have giv'n to be the race Of Satan , (
for I glory in the name , Antagonist of heav'n's almighty King , ) Amply have ...
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The storm of hail Moses . and fire , with the darkness that overspread the land for
three All night he will pursue , & c . days , are described with great Addison .
strength . The beautiful passage which follows , is raised 188. Palpable darkness
...
The storm of hail Moses . and fire , with the darkness that overspread the land for
three All night he will pursue , & c . days , are described with great Addison .
strength . The beautiful passage which follows , is raised 188. Palpable darkness
...
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... face , and 206. but his approach stood behind them : and it came Darkness
defends between till between the camp of the Egypmorning watch ; ] tians and
the camp of Israel ; and To defend here has the signifi- it was a cloud and
darkness to ...
... face , and 206. but his approach stood behind them : and it came Darkness
defends between till between the camp of the Egypmorning watch ; ] tians and
the camp of Israel ; and To defend here has the signifi- it was a cloud and
darkness to ...
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Page 35 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 30 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 163 - 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.
Page 296 - Great in the earth as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 303 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 349 - And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran ; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan ; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Page 256 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Page 234 - And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate" by his side come hot from hell , Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men , groaning for burial.
Page 31 - And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness : and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 51 - So sung The glorious train ascending. He through Heaven, That open'd wide her blazing portals, led To God's eternal house direct the way ; A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the Galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest 580 Powder'd with stars.
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| Title | 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 2 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, John Milton |
| Author | John Milton |
| Publisher | W. Baxter, 1824 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 24 May 2007 |
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