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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... NATURE IS NOT SUBJECT TO OLD AGE) This exercise may be the set of verses that Milton described in a letter to his ... NATURE IS NOT SUBJECT TO OLD AGE NATURAM NON PATI SENIUM (THAT NATURE IS NOT SUBJECT TO OLD AGE)
... NATURE IS NOT SUBJECT TO OLD AGE) This exercise may be the set of verses that Milton described in a letter to his ... NATURE IS NOT SUBJECT TO OLD AGE NATURAM NON PATI SENIUM (THAT NATURE IS NOT SUBJECT TO OLD AGE)
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... Nature, then, be overspread with wrinkles and shall the common mother” contract her all-generating womb and become sterile? Shall she confess herself old and move with uncertain steps, her starry head a-trembling? Shall the stars be ...
... Nature, then, be overspread with wrinkles and shall the common mother” contract her all-generating womb and become sterile? Shall she confess herself old and move with uncertain steps, her starry head a-trembling? Shall the stars be ...
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... Nature that heard such sound Beneath the hollow round Now. 69. amaze: amazement. Cf. PR II, 38 and SA, 1645. 71. In PL IV, 668–72 Milton explains the stars' influence. 74. Lucifer may mean the morning star, Venus, or the sun itself, as ...
... Nature that heard such sound Beneath the hollow round Now. 69. amaze: amazement. Cf. PR II, 38 and SA, 1645. 71. In PL IV, 668–72 Milton explains the stars' influence. 74. Lucifer may mean the morning star, Venus, or the sun itself, as ...
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... Nature that heard such sound Beneath the hollow round Now was almost won To think her part was done, 105 She knew such harmony alone At last surrounds their sight A Globe of circular light, II O The helmed Cherubim And sworded Seraphim ...
... Nature that heard such sound Beneath the hollow round Now was almost won To think her part was done, 105 She knew such harmony alone At last surrounds their sight A Globe of circular light, II O The helmed Cherubim And sworded Seraphim ...
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... Nature has molded the 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 ...
... Nature has molded the 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 ...
Contents
3 | |
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