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
... sweet pain even in tears: at times when an unhappy youth must leave his joys untasted and is torn away Gaudia, et abrupto flendus amore cadit, Seu ferus e tenebris. 21–22. The bard is Ovid, who was irrevocably banished to the city of ...
... sweet pain even in tears: at times when an unhappy youth must leave his joys untasted and is torn away Gaudia, et abrupto flendus amore cadit, Seu ferus e tenebris. 21–22. The bard is Ovid, who was irrevocably banished to the city of ...
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... sweet sounds of his tongue. Be off, then, and speed on your way faster than shrieking Eurus.” How necessary is my urging the situation itself suggests and you yourself perceive. Perhaps you will find him sitting with his sweet wife ...
... sweet sounds of his tongue. Be off, then, and speed on your way faster than shrieking Eurus.” How necessary is my urging the situation itself suggests and you yourself perceive. Perhaps you will find him sitting with his sweet wife ...
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... sweet captivity. But fie, my wand'ring 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 ...
... sweet captivity. But fie, my wand'ring 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 ...
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... sweet smiling Youth? Or that crown'd Matron, sage white-robed Truth? 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Or any other of that heav'nly brood 55 Let down. 25. Cf. the allusion to the myth of Hyacinth in 45. true behoof: true interest. Cf. PL II, 982 ...
... sweet smiling Youth? Or that crown'd Matron, sage white-robed Truth? 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 Or any other of that heav'nly brood 55 Let down. 25. Cf. the allusion to the myth of Hyacinth in 45. true behoof: true interest. Cf. PL II, 982 ...
Page 37
... sweet a child Her false imagin'd loss cease to lament, And wisely learn to curb thy sorrows wild; Think what a present thou to God hast sent, And render him with patience what he lent; 75 This if thou do, he will an offspring give That ...
... sweet a child Her false imagin'd loss cease to lament, And wisely learn to curb thy sorrows wild; Think what a present thou to God hast sent, And render him with patience what he lent; 75 This if thou do, he will an offspring give That ...
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