Milton's Poetical Works, Volume 1J. Nichol, 1853 - 661 pages |
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... creation ? and although there were no shouting as on its natal morn , might there not be silence , the silence of joyous wonder , among the sons of God ? Thus died Milton , the prince of modern men . He accepted death as gently and ...
... creation ? and although there were no shouting as on its natal morn , might there not be silence , the silence of joyous wonder , among the sons of God ? Thus died Milton , the prince of modern men . He accepted death as gently and ...
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... created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven ; for , that angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to determine thereon ...
... created , according to an ancient prophecy or report in heaven ; for , that angels were long before this visible creation , was the opinion of many ancient fathers . To find out the truth of this prophecy , and what to determine thereon ...
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... Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him , haply , slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night - founder'd skiff Deeming some island , oft , as seamen tell , With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Briareos or Typhon ...
... Created hugest that swim the ocean stream : Him , haply , slumbering on the Norway foam The pilot of some small night - founder'd skiff Deeming some island , oft , as seamen tell , With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Briareos or Typhon ...
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... created man , Met such imbodied force , as nam'd with these Could merit more than that small infantry 1 Warr'd on by cranes ; though all the giant brood Of Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium , on ...
... created man , Met such imbodied force , as nam'd with these Could merit more than that small infantry 1 Warr'd on by cranes ; though all the giant brood Of Phlegra with the heroic race were join'd That fought at Thebes and Ilium , on ...
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... created : Their doubt who shall be sent on this difficult search ; -Satan their chief undertakes alone the voyage ; —is honoured and applauded . The council thus ended , the rest betake them several ways , and to several employments ...
... created : Their doubt who shall be sent on this difficult search ; -Satan their chief undertakes alone the voyage ; —is honoured and applauded . The council thus ended , the rest betake them several ways , and to several employments ...
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Page 22 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 12 - Behind him cast; the broad circumference Hung on his shoulders like the moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views At evening from the top of Fesole, Or in Valdarno, to descry new lands, Rivers or mountains, in her spotty globe.
Page 247 - The fig-tree, not that kind for fruit renown'd, But such as, at this day, to Indians known, In Malabar or Decan spreads her arms, Branching so broad and long, that in the ground The bended twigs take root, and daughters grow About the mother tree, a pillar'd shade, High overarch'd, and echoing walks between : There oft the Indian herdsman, shunning heat, Shelters in cool, and tends his pasturing herds At loop-holes cut through thickest shade: those leaves They gather'd, broad as Amazonian targe ;...
Page 104 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 145 - So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found Among the faithless, faithful only he ; Among innumerable false, unmoved, Unshaken, unseduced, unterrified, His loyalty he kept, his love, his zeal ; Nor number, nor example, with him wrought To swerve from truth, or change his constant mind, Though single.
Page 4 - And chiefly thou, O Spirit, that dost prefer Before all temples the upright heart and pure, Instruct me, for thou know'st; thou from the first Wast present, and, with mighty wings outspread, Dove-like, sat'st brooding on the vast abyss, And mad'st it pregnant...
Page 64 - And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out. *° So much the rather thou, celestial Light, Shine inward, and the mind through all her powers Irradiate ; there plant eyes, all mist from thence Purge and disperse, that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight.
Page 13 - They heard, and were abashed, and up they sprung Upon the wing, as when men wont to watch, On duty sleeping found by whom they dread, Rouse and bestir themselves ere well awake.
Page 210 - O'er other creatures : yet, when I approach Her loveliness, so absolute she seems, And in herself complete, so well to know Her own, that what she wills to do or say Seems wisest, virtuousest, discreetest, best.
Page 87 - Which now sat high in his meridian tower : Then, much revolving, thus in sighs began. ' 0 thou, that with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion like' the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 Sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...