Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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... poem , the object of introducing them will have been gained . Some explanation of the two which stand respec- In regard to the use of capital letters , the authority of Wilson on Punctu- ation has generally been followed . tively at the ...
... poem , the object of introducing them will have been gained . Some explanation of the two which stand respec- In regard to the use of capital letters , the authority of Wilson on Punctu- ation has generally been followed . tively at the ...
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... poetry ; so great that when once we have come to know and honor and love it , it so subdues the judgment that the judgment can with difficulty do its work with tem- perance . No style , when one has lived in it , is so spacious and so ...
... poetry ; so great that when once we have come to know and honor and love it , it so subdues the judgment that the judgment can with difficulty do its work with tem- perance . No style , when one has lived in it , is so spacious and so ...
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... poem has grown grander , and Milton's genius has seemed more angelic . May this slight contribution lead at least a few others to love more warmly this kingliest of English souls , and to study more intelligently and more reverently ...
... poem has grown grander , and Milton's genius has seemed more angelic . May this slight contribution lead at least a few others to love more warmly this kingliest of English souls , and to study more intelligently and more reverently ...
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... poem , though perhaps the best that could have been chosen , hardly indicates beforehand the full extent of the theme . Nor are the opening lines sufficiently descriptive of what is to fol- low . According to them , the song is to be ...
... poem , though perhaps the best that could have been chosen , hardly indicates beforehand the full extent of the theme . Nor are the opening lines sufficiently descriptive of what is to fol- low . According to them , the song is to be ...
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... poem . He and his actions are the link between that new World of Man , the infancy of which we behold in the poem , and that boundless antecedent Universe of Pre - human existence which the poem assumes . For he was a native of that pre ...
... poem . He and his actions are the link between that new World of Man , the infancy of which we behold in the poem , and that boundless antecedent Universe of Pre - human existence which the poem assumes . For he was a native of that pre ...
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Abarim abyss abyss of Chaos Æneid Almighty amphibrach ancient angels Argob arms Beelzebub behold Belial Boeotia Book bright burning cæsura called centre Chaos Comus Dante darkness death deep Deity devils Dict dread earth Empyrean Eneid English eternal evil Exod Faerie Queene fiery fire flames flowers force fury gates glory gods Greek hath heaven heavenly hell Hesiod highth hill Himes Homer Iliad infernal Jove Julius Cæsar Keightley king Latin light Lycidas Macbeth Masson meaning Milton Moloch Muse night o'er Old Eng Ovid pain Pantheon Paradise Lost passage perhaps phrase poem poetry poets region reign rhyme river Satan says seat seems sense Shakes Shakespeare song sound space Spenser spirits Starry Universe stood Storr sublime syllable Tartarus temple thee thence Theocritus thou thought throne thunder utter vast verse viii Virgil Wedgwood winds wings word
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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...