Milton's Paradise Lost: Books I and IIGinn, 1879 - 113 pages |
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... song is to be " Of man's first disobedience , and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world and all our woe , With loss of Eden . " This is a true description , for the whole story bears on this ...
... song is to be " Of man's first disobedience , and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought Death into the world and all our woe , With loss of Eden . " This is a true description , for the whole story bears on this ...
Page xviii
... songs of praise by all the Heavenly hosts over the finished work , and in contemplation of it as it hung beneath them , " another Heaven From Heaven - gate not far , founded in view On the clear hyaline . " And now , accordingly , this ...
... songs of praise by all the Heavenly hosts over the finished work , and in contemplation of it as it hung beneath them , " another Heaven From Heaven - gate not far , founded in view On the clear hyaline . " And now , accordingly , this ...
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... song is the sister and companion of eternal Wisdom , and gives to the language of the blessed that prompt eloquence and musical sweetness by which it is character- ized . She appears as the inspirer of the poetical language in versified ...
... song is the sister and companion of eternal Wisdom , and gives to the language of the blessed that prompt eloquence and musical sweetness by which it is character- ized . She appears as the inspirer of the poetical language in versified ...
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... song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues IC 15 Chosen seed . Deut . iv . 37 , " He chose their seed . " So Deut . x . 15 , and 1 Chron . xvi . 13. - 9 . In the beginning . " In the ...
... song , That with no middle flight intends to soar Above the Aonian mount , while it pursues IC 15 Chosen seed . Deut . iv . 37 , " He chose their seed . " So Deut . x . 15 , and 1 Chron . xvi . 13. - 9 . In the beginning . " In the ...
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... song . Lat . prosequi ; e . g . in Virgil , Georgics , III . 340 , " Why should I pursue ( in song ) the shepherds and pastures ? " etc. Sequi is thus used in Horace , Art of Poetry , 1. 240. Milton , like Shakespeare , is fond of using ...
... song . Lat . prosequi ; e . g . in Virgil , Georgics , III . 340 , " Why should I pursue ( in song ) the shepherds and pastures ? " etc. Sequi is thus used in Horace , Art of Poetry , 1. 240. Milton , like Shakespeare , is fond of using ...
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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...