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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Page 54
... trees on the mountains might respond, let every man who finds himself unworthy of you ward well the approaches to the eye and ear. Grace from above alone can avail him to prevent the desire of a lover from becoming fixed immovably in ...
... trees on the mountains might respond, let every man who finds himself unworthy of you ward well the approaches to the eye and ear. Grace from above alone can avail him to prevent the desire of a lover from becoming fixed immovably in ...
Page 66
... tree: 30 The hapless Babe before his birth Had burial, yet not laid in earth, And the languisht Mother's Womb Was not long a living Tomb. So have I seen some tender slip 35 Sav'd with care from Winter's nip, The pride of her carnation ...
... tree: 30 The hapless Babe before his birth Had burial, yet not laid in earth, And the languisht Mother's Womb Was not long a living Tomb. So have I seen some tender slip 35 Sav'd with care from Winter's nip, The pride of her carnation ...
Page 70
... Trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighboring eyes. 8o Hard by, a Cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged Oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis met, Are at their savory dinner set Of Herbs, and other Country Messes ...
... Trees, Where perhaps some beauty lies, The Cynosure of neighboring eyes. 8o Hard by, a Cottage chimney smokes, From betwixt two aged Oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis met, Are at their savory dinner set Of Herbs, and other Country Messes ...
Page 71
... tree.” Cf. Winchester, 18. Cf. Bacon's essay Of 132. Comedy resembles the figure on the title page of Jonson's Workes (1616), which fits Cesare Ripa's traditional picture in his Iconographia of “a lady of mature age and noble aspect ...
... tree.” Cf. Winchester, 18. Cf. Bacon's essay Of 132. Comedy resembles the figure on the title page of Jonson's Workes (1616), which fits Cesare Ripa's traditional picture in his Iconographia of “a lady of mature age and noble aspect ...
Page 99
... Tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold Incontinence. You may as well spread out the unsunn'd heaps Of Miser's treasure ...
... Tree Laden with blooming gold, had need the guard Of dragon watch with unenchanted eye, To save her blossoms and defend her fruit From the rash hand of bold Incontinence. You may as well spread out the unsunn'd heaps Of Miser's treasure ...
Contents
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Paradise Lost | 173 |
Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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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