Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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Page i
... HEAD - MASTER of the girls ' HIGH SCHOOL , BOSTON ; AND FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF THE ADELPHI ACADEMY , BROOKLYN , AND Professor of rhetoric AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY . BOSTON : PUBLISHED BY GINN , HEATH , & CO . 8 ARD ...
... HEAD - MASTER of the girls ' HIGH SCHOOL , BOSTON ; AND FORMERLY PRINCIPAL OF THE ADELPHI ACADEMY , BROOKLYN , AND Professor of rhetoric AND ENGLISH LITERATURE IN CORNELL UNIVERSITY . BOSTON : PUBLISHED BY GINN , HEATH , & CO . 8 ARD ...
Page vii
... head , hands , wings , or feet , pursues his way , And swims , or sinks , or wades , or creeps , or flies . ' Yet it is an ocean ' Outrageous as a sea , dark , wasteful , wild , Up from the bottom turned by furious winds , And surging ...
... head , hands , wings , or feet , pursues his way , And swims , or sinks , or wades , or creeps , or flies . ' Yet it is an ocean ' Outrageous as a sea , dark , wasteful , wild , Up from the bottom turned by furious winds , And surging ...
Page xiv
... head , and , by success in his attempt , vitiates Man's portion of space to his own nature and wins possession of it for a season . The attention of the reader is particularly requested to the following remarks and diagrams . * The ...
... head , and , by success in his attempt , vitiates Man's portion of space to his own nature and wins possession of it for a season . The attention of the reader is particularly requested to the following remarks and diagrams . * The ...
Page xvi
... Head I him appoint , And by myself have sworn to him shall bow All knees in Heaven , and shall confess him Lord . " - - With joy and obedience is this decree received throughout the hierarchies , save in one quarter . One of the first ...
... Head I him appoint , And by myself have sworn to him shall bow All knees in Heaven , and shall confess him Lord . " - - With joy and obedience is this decree received throughout the hierarchies , save in one quarter . One of the first ...
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... head uplift above the wave , and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood , extended long and large , Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge - 195 Abbott's Shakes . Gram . 342. 180. Forlorn and wild ...
... head uplift above the wave , and eyes That sparkling blazed ; his other parts besides Prone on the flood , extended long and large , Lay floating many a rood ; in bulk as huge - 195 Abbott's Shakes . Gram . 342. 180. Forlorn and wild ...
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Page xxix - Anon out of the earth a fabric huge Rose like an exhalation, with the sound Of dulcet symphonies and voices sweet— Built like a temple, where pilasters round Were set, and Doric pillars overlaid With golden architrave; nor did there want Cornice or frieze, with bossy sculptures graven: The roof was fretted gold.
Page 42 - In courts and palaces he also reigns, And in luxurious cities, where the noise Of riot ascends above their loftiest towers, And injury, and outrage: And when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
Page 27 - In billows, leave i' the midst a horrid vale. Then with expanded wings he steers his flight Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights; if it were land that ever...