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... Paradise Lost . If this supposition be just , it must be the subject of our surprise , as it is of our regret , that a system which , with its obvious simplicity , would enforce the conviction of any philosophic and acute mind even ...
... Paradise Lost . If this supposition be just , it must be the subject of our surprise , as it is of our regret , that a system which , with its obvious simplicity , would enforce the conviction of any philosophic and acute mind even ...
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... Paradise or the vale of Tempè , our minds are only urged , within certain limits and under some particular modifications , to form a creation of their own . If fifty artists , without any intercourse with each other , were to draw these ...
... Paradise or the vale of Tempè , our minds are only urged , within certain limits and under some particular modifications , to form a creation of their own . If fifty artists , without any intercourse with each other , were to draw these ...
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... Paradise Lost as totally obliterated , or to impute an abhorrence of plays to the man who not only wrote Samson Agonistes , but who has left behind him a variety of subjects for the drama , selected , at a period subsequent to the ...
... Paradise Lost as totally obliterated , or to impute an abhorrence of plays to the man who not only wrote Samson Agonistes , but who has left behind him a variety of subjects for the drama , selected , at a period subsequent to the ...
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... Paradise Regained , " Mr. Dunster , have concurred in considering these verses as the property of Milton . 69 The form of this test , of the submission of the subject to the existing government , was simple and concise : it was nothing ...
... Paradise Regained , " Mr. Dunster , have concurred in considering these verses as the property of Milton . 69 The form of this test , of the submission of the subject to the existing government , was simple and concise : it was nothing ...
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... Paradise Lost , are as reputable to his judgment and poetic talent , as they are to his friendship . He died in 1678 in his 58th year , when his constitution was yet entire and vigorous . From this circumstance , and from his ...
... Paradise Lost , are as reputable to his judgment and poetic talent , as they are to his friendship . He died in 1678 in his 58th year , when his constitution was yet entire and vigorous . From this circumstance , and from his ...
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Page 386 - 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 296 - Old Law did save, And such as yet once more I trust to have Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint, Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. Her face was...
Page 102 - Neither do I think it shame to covenant with any knowing reader, that for some few years yet I may go on trust with him toward the payment of what I am now indebted...
Page 221 - Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage...
Page 39 - No war, or battle's sound Was heard the world around : The idle spear and shield were high uphung ; The hooked chariot stood Unstain'd with hostile blood ; 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.
Page 184 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
Page 154 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth ; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us...
Page 60 - Sleep; At last a soft and solemn-breathing sound Rose like a steam of rich distill'd perfumes, And stole upon the air...
Page 292 - The conscience, friend, to have lost them overplied In Liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Page 101 - ... that epic form whereof the two poems of Homer, and those other two of Virgil and Tasso are a diffuse, and the Book of Job a brief model...