Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and II., Book 1Longman's, Green, 1896 - 112 pages |
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... look at the poem in a par- ticular way . It is not that we cannot enjoy it without knowing ; doubtless many people have enjoyed " Paradise Lost " with very little definite knowledge about Milton . The theme , the construction of the ...
... look at the poem in a par- ticular way . It is not that we cannot enjoy it without knowing ; doubtless many people have enjoyed " Paradise Lost " with very little definite knowledge about Milton . The theme , the construction of the ...
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... of Good might with surety look forward ? The answer as it stands in the doctrines of the Church assumed a poetic form long existent in his ' See p . xii . See p . xi . 2 66 mind , and we have in Paradise Lost " INTRODUCTION xxi.
... of Good might with surety look forward ? The answer as it stands in the doctrines of the Church assumed a poetic form long existent in his ' See p . xii . See p . xi . 2 66 mind , and we have in Paradise Lost " INTRODUCTION xxi.
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... look upon our two books , not merely as a fragment giving an account of the delibera- tions of the Fallen Angels and the Flight of Satan , but as part of a great whole , we must know a little more of the poem of which it makes the ...
... look upon our two books , not merely as a fragment giving an account of the delibera- tions of the Fallen Angels and the Flight of Satan , but as part of a great whole , we must know a little more of the poem of which it makes the ...
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... looks , loose gestures , and foul talk , But most by lewd and lavish act of sin , Lets in defilement to the inward parts , ' Too long to quote here , in which Satan and his angels are sud- denly transformed into serpents . 1 The soul ...
... looks , loose gestures , and foul talk , But most by lewd and lavish act of sin , Lets in defilement to the inward parts , ' Too long to quote here , in which Satan and his angels are sud- denly transformed into serpents . 1 The soul ...
Page xxxix
... look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master , and seek for compan- ions . " Now , such may certainly be the case with many who read " Paradise Lost , " but if it is , they have missed the chief thing in the poem which is worth ...
... look elsewhere for recreation ; we desert our master , and seek for compan- ions . " Now , such may certainly be the case with many who read " Paradise Lost , " but if it is , they have missed the chief thing in the poem which is worth ...
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Page xxxii - So dear to Heaven is saintly chastity That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 6 - 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 5 - Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That shepherd, who first taught the chosen seed In the beginning how the Heavens and Earth Rose out of Chaos: or, if Sion hill Delight thee more, and Siloa's brook that flowed Fast by the oracle of God, I thence Invoke thy aid to my adventurous song, That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount, while it pursues Things unattempted yet in prose or rhyme.
Page xiv - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and, in shadiest covert hid, 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 89 - And sullen Moloch fled, Hath left in shadows dread His burning idol all of blackest hue ; In vain with cymbals' ring They call the grisly king, In dismal dance about the furnace blue : The brutish gods of Nile as fast, Isis and Orus, and the dog Anubis, haste.
Page 12 - Thus Satan, talking to his nearest mate, With head up-lift 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 ; in bulk as huge As whom the fables name of monstrous size, Titanian, or Earth-born, that warred on Jove ; Briareos or Typhon, whom the den By ancient Tarsus held ; or that sea-beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Created hugest that swim the ocean stream...
Page 44 - On the other side up rose Belial, in act more graceful and humane; A fairer person lost not Heaven; he seemed For dignity composed and high exploit: But all was false and hollow ; though his tongue Dropt manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, to perplex and dash Maturest counsels...
Page xi - 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.
Page 17 - Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe. His spear, — to equal which, the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills, to be the mast Of some great ammiral, were but a wand...
Page 63 - Far off the flying Fiend. At last appear Hell bounds high reaching to the horrid roof, And thrice threefold the gates; three folds were brass, Three iron, three of adamantine rock, Impenetrable, impaled with circling fire, Yet unconsumed.