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 103
... thought I, “How sweet thou sing'st, how near the deadly snare!” Then down the Lawns I ran with headlong haste Through paths and turnings oft'n trod by day, Till guided by mine ear I found the place Where that damn'd wizard hid in sly ...
... thought I, “How sweet thou sing'st, how near the deadly snare!” Then down the Lawns I ran with headlong haste Through paths and turnings oft'n trod by day, Till guided by mine ear I found the place Where that damn'd wizard hid in sly ...
Page 120
John Milton Merritt Y. Hughes. to the development of its thought and larger harmony led to the use of short lines rhyming with longer preceding ones—as the six-syllable lines in ... thought is like Virgil's as he invokes the 120 LY CIDAS.
John Milton Merritt Y. Hughes. to the development of its thought and larger harmony led to the use of short lines rhyming with longer preceding ones—as the six-syllable lines in ... thought is like Virgil's as he invokes the 120 LY CIDAS.
Page 124
... thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me! Whilst thee the shores and sounding Seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are ... thought of St. Michael's Mount on the Cornish coast as looking. All these places are picturesquely prominent on ...
... thoughts dally with false surmise. Ay me! Whilst thee the shores and sounding Seas Wash far away, where'er thy bones are ... thought of St. Michael's Mount on the Cornish coast as looking. All these places are picturesquely prominent on ...
Page 147
... thought of the Harpies as Virgil described them (Aen. III, 225–41), monstrous birds that defiled everything which they could not devour, and of a story (stemming from Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica II, 195-228) that they had once ...
... thought of the Harpies as Virgil described them (Aen. III, 225–41), monstrous birds that defiled everything which they could not devour, and of a story (stemming from Apollonius of Rhodes, Argonautica II, 195-228) that they had once ...
Page 182
... thought to have been a disciple of St. Paul. His sequence was this: Seraphim (the order of purely contemplative angels to whom Milton compared himself in the first sonnet on his blindness), and then downward, the Cherubim, Thrones ...
... thought to have been a disciple of St. Paul. His sequence was this: Seraphim (the order of purely contemplative angels to whom Milton compared himself in the first sonnet on his blindness), and then downward, the Cherubim, Thrones ...
Contents
3 | |
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