The minor poemsMacmillan and Company, 1910 |
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... brother - in - law , John Milton , of Allhallows , Bread Street.1 From this circumstance , and from other evidence , no doubt is now left that the maiden name of Milton's mother was Sarah Jeffrey . She had been married to the scrivener ...
... brother - in - law , John Milton , of Allhallows , Bread Street.1 From this circumstance , and from other evidence , no doubt is now left that the maiden name of Milton's mother was Sarah Jeffrey . She had been married to the scrivener ...
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... brother Christopher were then the only children left in the paternal home . From his childhood Milton was not only a ceaseless student and insatiable reader , but also a writer of verses . The earliest preserved specimens of his muse ...
... brother Christopher were then the only children left in the paternal home . From his childhood Milton was not only a ceaseless student and insatiable reader , but also a writer of verses . The earliest preserved specimens of his muse ...
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... brother Christopher joined him at Christ's in February 1630-1 , and was put under Tovey's tutorship . — Among the eminent heads of colleges when Milton's academic course began were Dr. John Preston of Emanuel , Dr. Samuel Collins of ...
... brother Christopher joined him at Christ's in February 1630-1 , and was put under Tovey's tutorship . — Among the eminent heads of colleges when Milton's academic course began were Dr. John Preston of Emanuel , Dr. Samuel Collins of ...
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... brother John , describes it more particularly as 66 a pretty garden - house in Aldersgate Street , at the end of an entry , and therefore the fitter for his turn by reason of the privacy , besides that there are few streets in London ...
... brother John , describes it more particularly as 66 a pretty garden - house in Aldersgate Street , at the end of an entry , and therefore the fitter for his turn by reason of the privacy , besides that there are few streets in London ...
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... brother - in - law Sir Thomas Clarges , and Monk's intimate friend and follower Sir William Morrice , the new Secretary of State , both of them very important members of the Commons House , and both very active in the conduct of the ...
... brother - in - law Sir Thomas Clarges , and Monk's intimate friend and follower Sir William Morrice , the new Secretary of State , both of them very important members of the Commons House , and both very active in the conduct of the ...
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Page 183 - 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 159 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail, To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Page 205 - Return Alpheus, the dread voice is past, That shrunk thy streams; return, Sicilian Muse, And call the vales, and bid them hither cast Their bells, and flowerets of a thousand hues. Ye valleys low, where the mild whispers use Of shades, and wanton winds, and gushing brooks, On whose fresh lap the swart star sparely looks; Throw hither all your quaint enamell'd eyes, That on the green turf suck the honied showers, And purple all the ground with vernal flowers.
Page 202 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ah me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there...
Page 151 - Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...
Page 163 - Where the bright seraphim in burning row Their loud uplifted angel-trumpets blow ; And the cherubic host, in thousand quires, Touch their immortal harps of golden wires, With those just spirits that wear victorious palms, Hymns devout and holy psalms Singing everlastingly...
Page 59 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead, Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it ; for I love you so, That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, If thinking on me then should make you woe.
Page 42 - But now my task is smoothly done, I can fly or I can run Quickly to the green earth's end, Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend ; And from thence can soar as soon To the corners of the moon.
Page 57 - Lycidas, the shepherds weep no more; Henceforth thou art the Genius of the shore In thy large recompense, and shalt be good To all that wander in that perilous flood.
Page 176 - Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night ? I did not err, there does a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night, And casts a gleam over this tufted grove.