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 35
... thought to kiss But kill'd alas, and then bewail'd his fatal bliss. II For since grim Aquilo his charioteer By boist'rous rape th' Athenian damsel got, He thought it toucht his Deity full near, IO If likewise he some fair one wedded not ...
... thought to kiss But kill'd alas, and then bewail'd his fatal bliss. II For since grim Aquilo his charioteer By boist'rous rape th' Athenian damsel got, He thought it toucht his Deity full near, IO If likewise he some fair one wedded not ...
Page 63
... thought has countless parallels stretching from Horace's boast (Odes II, xx) that his poetry would be his world-wide tomb to an epitaph on Sir Edward Stanley which has been attributed by Sir Edmund Chambers to Shakespeare himself: Not ...
... thought has countless parallels stretching from Horace's boast (Odes II, xx) that his poetry would be his world-wide tomb to an epitaph on Sir Edward Stanley which has been attributed by Sir Edmund Chambers to Shakespeare himself: Not ...
Page 87
... thought of his poem as comparable with court masks like Jonson's Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue. Its conventions of “a world of perfection, with persons representing ideals and types and powers” seem to John Arthos to make it a true mask ...
... thought of his poem as comparable with court masks like Jonson's Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue. Its conventions of “a world of perfection, with persons representing ideals and types and powers” seem to John Arthos to make it a true mask ...
Page 99
... thought my sister's state Secure without all doubt or controversy: Yet where an equal poise of hope and fear Does arbitrate th'event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion. My sister is ...
... thought my sister's state Secure without all doubt or controversy: Yet where an equal poise of hope and fear Does arbitrate th'event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear, And gladly banish squint suspicion. My sister is ...
Page 101
... thought is involved with St. Paul's question: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (I Cor. iii, 16). 466. Cf. Psalm li, 6: “Thou desirest truth in the inward parts.” 468. Cf. imbrute ...
... thought is involved with St. Paul's question: “Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?” (I Cor. iii, 16). 466. Cf. Psalm li, 6: “Thou desirest truth in the inward parts.” 468. Cf. imbrute ...
Contents
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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