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 40
... divine face in the unclean salt water? You will find coolness much better, Phoebus, in my shadow. Come hither and steep your glowing locks in dew. A gentler sleep will be yours in the cool grass. Come hither and lay your glories in my ...
... divine face in the unclean salt water? You will find coolness much better, Phoebus, in my shadow. Come hither and steep your glowing locks in dew. A gentler sleep will be yours in the cool grass. Come hither and lay your glories in my ...
Page 52
... divine, and he who sings now of the sacred counsels of the gods on high, and now of the infernal realms where the ... divine inspiration because he sings of divine things (Fasti VI, 5–7). Erato is the Muse of erotic and lyric Linus 31 ...
... divine, and he who sings now of the sacred counsels of the gods on high, and now of the infernal realms where the ... divine inspiration because he sings of divine things (Fasti VI, 5–7). Erato is the Muse of erotic and lyric Linus 31 ...
Page 81
... divine sounds, and mixt power employ Dead things with inbreath'd sense able to pierce, And to our high-rais'd fantasy present That undisturbed Song of pure concent, Aye sung before the sapphire-color'd throne To him that sits thereon ...
... divine sounds, and mixt power employ Dead things with inbreath'd sense able to pierce, And to our high-rais'd fantasy present That undisturbed Song of pure concent, Aye sung before the sapphire-color'd throne To him that sits thereon ...
Page 83
... divine song, which preserves some spark of Promethean fire20 and is the unrivalled glory of the heaven-born human mind and an evidence of our ethereal origin and celestial descent. The gods on high love song and song has power to move ...
... divine song, which preserves some spark of Promethean fire20 and is the unrivalled glory of the heaven-born human mind and an evidence of our ethereal origin and celestial descent. The gods on high love song and song has power to move ...
Page 101
... divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in Charnel vaults and Sepulchers, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it lov'd, And link't itself by carnal ...
... divine property of her first being. Such are those thick and gloomy shadows damp Oft seen in Charnel vaults and Sepulchers, Lingering and sitting by a new-made grave, As loath to leave the body that it lov'd, And link't itself by carnal ...
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