Milton's Poetical Works: With Life, Critical Dissertation and Explanatory Notes, Page 108, Volume 1James Nichol, 1853 |
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... father was a scrivener to trade , and lived at the sign of the Spread Eagle in Bread Street - a street lying - in what is called tech- nically the City - under the shadow of St Paul's . He had in his youth attended Christ Church ...
... father was a scrivener to trade , and lived at the sign of the Spread Eagle in Bread Street - a street lying - in what is called tech- nically the City - under the shadow of St Paul's . He had in his youth attended Christ Church ...
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... father was a scrivener to trade , and lived at the sign of the Spread Eagle in Bread Street — a street lying - in what is called tech- nically the City - under the shadow of St Paul's . He had in his youth attended Christ Church ...
... father was a scrivener to trade , and lived at the sign of the Spread Eagle in Bread Street — a street lying - in what is called tech- nically the City - under the shadow of St Paul's . He had in his youth attended Christ Church ...
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... father had meanwhile retired from business , and settled in Horton , near Colnebrooke , Buckinghamshire . To his seat the rusticated poet repaired , and remained there from 1632 to 1638 , or from his twenty - fourth to his thirtieth ...
... father had meanwhile retired from business , and settled in Horton , near Colnebrooke , Buckinghamshire . To his seat the rusticated poet repaired , and remained there from 1632 to 1638 , or from his twenty - fourth to his thirtieth ...
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... father's landlord , the Earl of Bridgewater , and enacted in 1634 at his lordship's residence of Castle Ludlow . In 1637 his mother died , and Milton prevailed on his father to permit him to visit the Continent . Probably he found his ...
... father's landlord , the Earl of Bridgewater , and enacted in 1634 at his lordship's residence of Castle Ludlow . In 1637 his mother died , and Milton prevailed on his father to permit him to visit the Continent . Probably he found his ...
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... father's house with contempt . His grief and surprise were soon changed into fury ; he determined to repudiate her , and pro- ceeded to justify the step by writing four treatises , The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ; The Judgment ...
... father's house with contempt . His grief and surprise were soon changed into fury ; he determined to repudiate her , and pro- ceeded to justify the step by writing four treatises , The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce ; The Judgment ...
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Page 22 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 12 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb 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.
Page 247 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade: those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe ;...
Page 104 - Now came still Evening on, and Twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung; Silence was...
Page 3 - 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...
Page 4 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 145 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 20 - At which the universal host up-sent A shout that tore Hell's concave, and beyond Frighted the reign of Chaos and old Night. All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air, With orient colours waving: with them, rose A forest huge of spears; and thronging helms Appeared, and serried shields in thick array Of depth immeasurable. Anon they move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders...
Page 202 - fair light, And thou enlighten'd earth, so fresh and gay, Ye hills, and dales, ye rivers, woods, and plains, And ye that live and move, fair creatures, tell, Tell, if ye saw, how came I thus, how here...
Page 210 - Yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.