Milton's Paradise Lost ...Macmillan, 1896 |
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according adjective admiration Æneid alchemists archangels Beersheba Bible blind bright called character Christ Christian Doctrine clause Cleombrotus Compare created crystalline sphere death decree derived described Divine Earth English epic poem equivalent eternal ether express eyes fall fallen angels Father firmament foreknowledge genius glory God's grace Greek Greek mythology hath heavenly bodies Hebrew Hell Homer hymn hypallage Imaus imbosomed inferior Latin light Limbo meaning MICHAEL MACMILLAN Milton moon Mount Sion Muse nature noun numbers obedience ocean original Paneas Paradise Lost participle passage Phineus poet poetical poetry praise predestination previous line primum mobile Ptolemaic Ptolemaic system Puritan redeem regarded Roman Catholic round salvation Samson Agonistes Satan saved Scythia seems sense sentence seraphim sewed Sion song speech Spirits supposed syllepsis thee things thou throne Tiresias trochee Uriel utter verb verse Virgil Vondel's W. T. WEBB whole word World writing
Popular passages
Page 4 - 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 xxxi - The measure is English Heroic Verse without Rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin; Rime being no necessary Adjunct or true Ornament of Poem or good Verse, in longer Works especially, but the Invention of a barbarous Age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter...
Page 3 - 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 6 - Whose fault ? Whose but his own ? Ingrate, he had of me All he could have ; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall.
Page xviii - These abilities, wheresoever they be found, are the inspired gift of God, rarely bestowed, but yet to some (though most abuse) in every nation; and are of power, beside the office of a pulpit, to inbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune...
Page xviii - ... to imbreed and cherish in a great people the seeds of virtue and public civility, to allay the perturbations of the mind, and set the affections in right tune, to celebrate in glorious and lofty hymns the throne and equipage of God's almightiness, and what He works, and what He suffers to be wrought with high providence in His church ; to sing victorious agonies of martyrs and saints, the deeds and triumphs of just and pious nations doing valiantly through faith against the enemies of Christ...
Page 22 - For wonderful indeed are all his works, Pleasant to know and worthiest to be all Had in remembrance always with delight ; But what created mind can comprehend Their number, or the wisdom infinite That brought them forth, but hid their causes deep...
Page vii - Next, (for hear me out now, readers,) that I may tell ye whither my younger feet wandered ; I betook me among those lofty fables and romances,* which recount in solemn cantos the deeds of knighthood founded by our victorious kings, and from hence had in renown over all Christendom.
Page 4 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled. Yet not the more Cease I to wander, where the Muses haunt « Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill...
Page ix - I endure to interrupt the pursuit of no less hopes than these, and leave a calm and pleasing solitariness fed with cheerful and confident thoughts to embark in a troubled sea of noises and hoarse disputes, put from beholding the bright countenance of truth in the quiet and still air of delightful studies...