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Page xvii
... element in his character . He unswervingly acted up to the high ideal he had conceived of the qualifications essential to a true poet . In Milton's opinion , " he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in ...
... element in his character . He unswervingly acted up to the high ideal he had conceived of the qualifications essential to a true poet . In Milton's opinion , " he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in ...
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... himself to the service of religion and morality . There is no doubt that his reli- gious and moral zeal , though it supplied his verse with that earnestness which is an indispensable element in all poetry xviii INTRODUCTION .
... himself to the service of religion and morality . There is no doubt that his reli- gious and moral zeal , though it supplied his verse with that earnestness which is an indispensable element in all poetry xviii INTRODUCTION .
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John Milton Michael Macmillan. that earnestness which is an indispensable element in all poetry of the highest rank , at the same time often betrayed him into undignified asperity of language in his political and religious pamphlets ...
John Milton Michael Macmillan. that earnestness which is an indispensable element in all poetry of the highest rank , at the same time often betrayed him into undignified asperity of language in his political and religious pamphlets ...
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... raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven show more ? Our torments also may , in length of time , Become our elements , these piercing fires 240 250 260 270 As soft as now severe , our temper changed Into 32 BOOK II . PARADISE LOST .
... raise Magnificence ; and what can Heaven show more ? Our torments also may , in length of time , Become our elements , these piercing fires 240 250 260 270 As soft as now severe , our temper changed Into 32 BOOK II . PARADISE LOST .
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... while the North wind sleeps , o'erspread Heaven's cheerful face , the louring element Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow or shower , 490 If chance the radiant sun , with farewell sweet , 38 BOOK II . PARADISE LOST .
... while the North wind sleeps , o'erspread Heaven's cheerful face , the louring element Scowls o'er the darkened landskip snow or shower , 490 If chance the radiant sun , with farewell sweet , 38 BOOK II . PARADISE LOST .
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according adjective adverb Aeneid ancient arms army battle Beelzebub Belial bleating burning burning lake called Chaos Cherubim clause Compare darkness death deep Demogorgon derived described devils dread earth Egypt empyreal epic epithet equivalent eternal ethereal expressed fallen angels fear fire first-born flames force glory gods Greek mythology hath Heaven Hell highth Homer hope horrid hypallage imitating infernal instance intransitive Israelites Jehovah Keightley king lake Latin Mammon meaning MICHAEL MACMILLAN Milton mind misery modern English Moloch mortal night nominative absolute noun noun sentence object ordinary pain Paradise Lost participle passage passive pathetic fallacy poem poet poetry preposition punishment race rebel angels regarded reign Satan seems sense Seraphim sound spear speech Spirits suggests supposed Thammuz thee things thou thought throne thunder transitive verb utter verse Virgil Vondel wandering wind wings word worse writers zeugma
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Page 2 - Almighty hath not built Here for his envy, will not drive us hence: Here we may reign secure, and in my choice To reign is worth ambition though in Hell : Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven.
Page 1 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-foundered 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 4 - And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
Page 3 - 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...
Page 21 - That in our proper motion we ascend Up to our native seat : descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low ? The...
Page xxv - Spanish poets of prime note, have rejected rhyme both in longer and shorter works, as have also long since our best English tragedies, as a thing of itself, to all judicious ears, trivial, and of no true musical delight, which consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another...
Page xxv - 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 37 - As, when far off at sea, a fleet descried Hangs in the clouds, by equinoctial winds Close sailing from Bengala, or the isles Of Ternate and Tidore, whence merchants bring Their spicy drugs; they, on the trading flood, Through the wide Ethiopian to the Cape, Ply stemming nightly toward the pole : so seem'd Far off the flying fiend.
Page xxvii - OF Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose mortal taste Brought death into the world, and all our woe, With loss of Eden, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly 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...