The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors, Principally from the Editions of Thomas Newton, Charles Dunster and Thomas Warton ; to which is Prefixed Newton's Life of Milton, Volume 2W. Baxter, 1824 |
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... fall Erroneous there to wander and forlorn . Half yet remains unsung , but narrower bound Within the visible diurnal sphere ; Standing on earth , not rapt above the pole , Ητοι ο καππεδιον το Αλήιον οιος αλατο , Ὃν θυμον κατίδων , πατον ...
... fall Erroneous there to wander and forlorn . Half yet remains unsung , but narrower bound Within the visible diurnal sphere ; Standing on earth , not rapt above the pole , Ητοι ο καππεδιον το Αλήιον οιος αλατο , Ὃν θυμον κατίδων , πατον ...
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... fall'n on evil days , ] The repetition and turn of the words is very beautiful , though fall'n on evil days , On evil days though fall'n , and evil tongues ; & c . A lively picture this in a few lines of the Poet's wretched condition ...
... fall'n on evil days , ] The repetition and turn of the words is very beautiful , though fall'n on evil days , On evil days though fall'n , and evil tongues ; & c . A lively picture this in a few lines of the Poet's wretched condition ...
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... fall'n on evil days , On evil days though fall'n and evil tongues ; and I know not whether the English verse has not in this respect the advantage of the Greek and Latin . 192. Mean while the Son , & c . ] The Messiah , by whom , as we ...
... fall'n on evil days , On evil days though fall'n and evil tongues ; and I know not whether the English verse has not in this respect the advantage of the Greek and Latin . 192. Mean while the Son , & c . ] The Messiah , by whom , as we ...
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... falling waters . 285. Immediately the moun- tains & c . ] We have the same elevation of thought in the third day , when the mountains were brought forth , and the deep was made . We have also the rising of the whole vegetable world ...
... falling waters . 285. Immediately the moun- tains & c . ] We have the same elevation of thought in the third day , when the mountains were brought forth , and the deep was made . We have also the rising of the whole vegetable world ...
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... falling away into nothing , can never be sufficiently admired . His dream , in which he still pre- serves the consciousness of his existence , together with his re- moval into the garden which was prepared for his reception , are also ...
... falling away into nothing , can never be sufficiently admired . His dream , in which he still pre- serves the consciousness of his existence , together with his re- moval into the garden which was prepared for his reception , are also ...
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Page 35 - And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
Page 30 - And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground.
Page 163 - So saying, her rash hand in evil hour Forth reaching to the Fruit, she pluck'd, she eat: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her Works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.
Page 296 - Great in the earth as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze. Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent. Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 303 - And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the LORD. And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof.
Page 349 - And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran ; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan ; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Page 256 - O ! why did God, Creator wise, that peopled highest Heaven With spirits masculine, create at last This novelty on Earth, this fair defect Of Nature, and not fill the world at once With men, as angels, without feminine ; Or find some other way to generate Mankind...
Page 234 - And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate" by his side come hot from hell , Shall in these confines with a monarch's voice Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war; That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men , groaning for burial.
Page 31 - And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness : and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 51 - So sung The glorious train ascending. He through Heaven, That open'd wide her blazing portals, led To God's eternal house direct the way ; A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars, as stars to thee appear Seen in the Galaxy, that milky way Which nightly as a circling zone thou seest 580 Powder'd with stars.