Milton's Paradise Lost ...Macmillan, 1893 |
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Page ix
... whole heart and soul and life to the composition of such a poem as posterity should not willingly let die , he in- forms his readers that he would not have disclosed so much beforehand , " but that he trusted thereby to make it manifest ...
... whole heart and soul and life to the composition of such a poem as posterity should not willingly let die , he in- forms his readers that he would not have disclosed so much beforehand , " but that he trusted thereby to make it manifest ...
Page xiii
... whole can be founded upon Vondel's drama . As for resemblance in individual passages , the same evidence adduced to show that Milton borrowed from Vondel would probably , if accepted , lead us to believe that Vondel was in like manner ...
... whole can be founded upon Vondel's drama . As for resemblance in individual passages , the same evidence adduced to show that Milton borrowed from Vondel would probably , if accepted , lead us to believe that Vondel was in like manner ...
Page xiv
... against this conclusion is that Milton never appears to have mentioned Caedmon's name in the whole range of his writings . Whether this omission was due to the practice of an age in which literary men xiv INTRODUCTION .
... against this conclusion is that Milton never appears to have mentioned Caedmon's name in the whole range of his writings . Whether this omission was due to the practice of an age in which literary men xiv INTRODUCTION .
Page xix
... whole decidedly opposed to all kinds of culture , so that poets , architects , painters , and musicians naturally looked to Charles I. and his court for protection and patronage . On this account Milton must always have been conscious ...
... whole decidedly opposed to all kinds of culture , so that poets , architects , painters , and musicians naturally looked to Charles I. and his court for protection and patronage . On this account Milton must always have been conscious ...
Page xx
... whole drama indiscriminately as a school of immorality . In many fine passages of Milton's poetry evidence of his love of music may be found ( see note , P. L. , I. , 708 ) , and we know that his favourite relaxation was to play on the ...
... whole drama indiscriminately as a school of immorality . In many fine passages of Milton's poetry evidence of his love of music may be found ( see note , P. L. , I. , 708 ) , and we know that his favourite relaxation was to play on the ...
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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...