The Complete Poems and Major ProseFirst published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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Page 8
... Muses; and my books, which are my life, quite carry me away. When I am tired, the magnificence of the arched theater” diverts me and the chattering actors invite me to applaud them. Sometimes the speaker is a shrewd old man, sometimes ...
... Muses; and my books, which are my life, quite carry me away. When I am tired, the magnificence of the arched theater” diverts me and the chattering actors invite me to applaud them. Sometimes the speaker is a shrewd old man, sometimes ...
Page 9
... Muse boast of Pompey's colonnade” or of the theaters crowded with Italian robes. The prime honor is due to the virgins of Britain; be content, foreign woman, to follow after. And you, London, the city built by Trojan colonists and now ...
... Muse boast of Pompey's colonnade” or of the theaters crowded with Italian robes. The prime honor is due to the virgins of Britain; be content, foreign woman, to follow after. And you, London, the city built by Trojan colonists and now ...
Page 13
... Muses and too terrible to Pallas—why do you not make your prey of those who are useless bur. dens of the earth? That is the rab. ble which ought to be made the target of your darts. Therefore grieve for this man, O Academe, in robes of ...
... Muses and too terrible to Pallas—why do you not make your prey of those who are useless bur. dens of the earth? That is the rab. ble which ought to be made the target of your darts. Therefore grieve for this man, O Academe, in robes of ...
Page 27
... Muses, were in Aonia; the Castalian spring at its foot was sacred to them. Cf. PL I, 15. 31. Hesiod (Theog., 52–79) represents the Muses (of whom Clio, the Muse of History, stands first) as being born to Zeus by Mnemosyne (Memory) on Mt ...
... Muses, were in Aonia; the Castalian spring at its foot was sacred to them. Cf. PL I, 15. 31. Hesiod (Theog., 52–79) represents the Muses (of whom Clio, the Muse of History, stands first) as being born to Zeus by Mnemosyne (Memory) on Mt ...
Page 31
... Muse, how thou dost stray! Expectance calls thee now another way, Thou know'st it must be now thy only bent 55 To keep in compass of thy Predicament: Then quick about thy purpos'd business come, That to the next I may resign my Room ...
... Muse, how thou dost stray! Expectance calls thee now another way, Thou know'st it must be now thy only bent 55 To keep in compass of thy Predicament: Then quick about thy purpos'd business come, That to the next I may resign my Room ...
Contents
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173 | |
Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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Adam Aeneid ancient angels Areopagitica Aristotle Beast behold bishops Book called Chorus Christ Christian church Comus dark death delight divine doctrine doth E. M. W. Tillyard Earth Euripides evil eyes faith Father fear fire glory God's goddess gods grace Greek hand happy hast hath heart Heav'n heavenly Hell Hesiod holy honor human John John Milton Jove King Latin meaning learned less light live Lord Lycidas marriage Milton mind Muses nature night Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace perhaps Philistines Plato poem poet praise prelates Psalm Roman Samson Agonistes Satan says Serpent song SONNET soul spake spirit stars stood story sweet thee things thir thou thought Throne tion tradition translation Tree truth verse VIII virtue wings wisdom words Zeus