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 37
... human weed, To earth from thy prefixed seat didst post, And after short abode fly back with speed, 60 As if to show what creatures Heav'n doth breed, Thereby to set the hearts of men on fire To scorn the sordid world, and unto Heav'n ...
... human weed, To earth from thy prefixed seat didst post, And after short abode fly back with speed, 60 As if to show what creatures Heav'n doth breed, Thereby to set the hearts of men on fire To scorn the sordid world, and unto Heav'n ...
Page 46
... human ears, 125 And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; 130 For if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, 135 And speckl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, Yea, Truth. 102, the hollow round: the orb or sphere of the moon. Cf. l ...
... human ears, 125 And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; 130 For if such holy Song Enwrap our fancy long, 135 And speckl'd vanity Will sicken soon and die, Yea, Truth. 102, the hollow round: the orb or sphere of the moon. Cf. l ...
Page 57
... human race. Certainly he does not lurk, a twin of the virgin Athene, unborn in the brain of Jove.” But, though all men have a share in his nature, yet—strange as it may be— he exists by himself as an individual apart and is limited by ...
... human race. Certainly he does not lurk, a twin of the virgin Athene, unborn in the brain of Jove.” But, though all men have a share in his nature, yet—strange as it may be— he exists by himself as an individual apart and is limited by ...
Page 72
... human sight; And therefore to our weaker view, I5 O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Black, but such as in esteem, Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that Starr'd Ethiop Queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above 2O ...
... human sight; And therefore to our weaker view, I5 O'erlaid with black, staid Wisdom's hue. Black, but such as in esteem, Prince Memnon's sister might beseem, Or that Starr'd Ethiop Queen that strove To set her beauty's praise above 2O ...
Page 83
... human mind and an evidence of our ethereal origin and celestial descent. The gods on high love song and song has power to move the frightful depths of Tartarus and to bind the gods below and control the implacable shades with triple ...
... human mind and an evidence of our ethereal origin and celestial descent. The gods on high love song and song has power to move the frightful depths of Tartarus and to bind the gods below and control the implacable shades with triple ...
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