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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What power, what force, what mighty spell, if not Your learned hands, can loose this Gordian knot? 90 The next Quantity and Quality, spake in Prose, then Relation was call'd by his Name. Rivers, arise; whether thou be the Son Of utmost ...
What power, what force, what mighty spell, if not Your learned hands, can loose this Gordian knot? 90 The next Quantity and Quality, spake in Prose, then Relation was call'd by his Name. Rivers, arise; whether thou be the Son Of utmost ...
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The idle spear and shield were high up hung; 55 The Trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And Kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. 60 His reign of peace upon the earth began: The Winds, ...
The idle spear and shield were high up hung; 55 The Trumpet spake not to the armed throng, And Kings sat still with awful eye, As if they surely knew their sovran Lord was by. 60 His reign of peace upon the earth began: The Winds, ...
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He was thrice great, said Raleigh (History II, vi, 6), “because he spake of the Trinitie, assirming that there is one God in Trinitie,” but in the Dedication to the Advancement Bacon made his triplicity consist in “the power and fortune ...
He was thrice great, said Raleigh (History II, vi, 6), “because he spake of the Trinitie, assirming that there is one God in Trinitie,” but in the Dedication to the Advancement Bacon made his triplicity consist in “the power and fortune ...
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Love led them on, and Faith who knew them best Thy handmaids, clad them o'er with purple beams And azure wings, that up they flew so drest, And spake the truth of thee in glorious Themes Before the Judge, who thenceforth bid thee rest ...
Love led them on, and Faith who knew them best Thy handmaids, clad them o'er with purple beams And azure wings, that up they flew so drest, And spake the truth of thee in glorious Themes Before the Judge, who thenceforth bid thee rest ...
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User Review - selfcallednowhere - LibraryThingOk, so I didn't read this whole thing, obviously. But I did read "Paradise Lost" and that's the important thing, right? And I actually ended up enjoying it a lot more than I expected to. The language ... Read full review
Contents
| 3 | |
| 173 | |
Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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Common terms and phrases
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
Bibliographic information
| Title | The Complete Poems and Major Prose Hackett Classics |
| Author | John Milton |
| Editor | Merritt Y. Hughes |
| Publisher | Hackett Publishing, 2003 |
| ISBN | 1624665853, 9781624665851 |
| Length | 1088 pages |
| Subjects | › › Poetry / Epic Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Poetry / European / General |
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