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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... nature ; as in particular , that if he writes on a poetical subject , he should consider how Homer would have spoken ... natural strength of ge- nius was capable of furnishing out a perfect work , has doubt- less very much raised and en ...
... nature ; as in particular , that if he writes on a poetical subject , he should consider how Homer would have spoken ... natural strength of ge- nius was capable of furnishing out a perfect work , has doubt- less very much raised and en ...
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... nature , than that of Ovid , Nec circumfuso pendebat in aëre tellus . Met . i . 12 . Hume . 92. -so late to build ] It is a question that has been often asked , Why God did not create the world sooner ? but the same question might be ...
... nature , than that of Ovid , Nec circumfuso pendebat in aëre tellus . Met . i . 12 . Hume . 92. -so late to build ] It is a question that has been often asked , Why God did not create the world sooner ? but the same question might be ...
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... nature from the unapparent deep : Or if the star of evening and the moon Haste to thy audience , night with her will bring Silence , and sleep list'ning to thee will watch , Or we can bid his absence , till thy song End , and dismiss ...
... nature from the unapparent deep : Or if the star of evening and the moon Haste to thy audience , night with her will bring Silence , and sleep list'ning to thee will watch , Or we can bid his absence , till thy song End , and dismiss ...
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... natural instrument in the hand of him , whom Plato some- where calls the divine geome- trician . As poetry delights in clothing abstracted ideas in alle- gories and sensible images , we find a magnificent description of the creation ...
... natural instrument in the hand of him , whom Plato some- where calls the divine geome- trician . As poetry delights in clothing abstracted ideas in alle- gories and sensible images , we find a magnificent description of the creation ...
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... nature and fit for composing the earth , went off to other places , perhaps to form the planets and fixed stars . This seems to be Milton's mean- ing . Pearce . Like things to like , the rest to several place 22 BOOK VII . PARADISE LOST ...
... nature and fit for composing the earth , went off to other places , perhaps to form the planets and fixed stars . This seems to be Milton's mean- ing . Pearce . Like things to like , the rest to several place 22 BOOK VII . PARADISE LOST ...
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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.