Poetical Works, Volume 2Macmillan, 1893 |
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... Poem II . Origin of the Poem and History of its Com- position . · III . Scheme and Meaning of the Poem COMMENDATory Verses pREFIXED TO THE SECOND EDITION . AUTHOR'S PREFACE ON " THE VERSE " TEXT OF THE POEM : — Book I. Book II . Book ...
... Poem II . Origin of the Poem and History of its Com- position . · III . Scheme and Meaning of the Poem COMMENDATory Verses pREFIXED TO THE SECOND EDITION . AUTHOR'S PREFACE ON " THE VERSE " TEXT OF THE POEM : — Book I. Book II . Book ...
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... POEM . IT was possibly just before the Great Fire of London in September 1666 , and it certainly cannot have been very long after that event , when Milton , then residing in Artillery Walk , Bunhill Fields , sent the manuscript of his ...
... POEM . IT was possibly just before the Great Fire of London in September 1666 , and it certainly cannot have been very long after that event , when Milton , then residing in Artillery Walk , Bunhill Fields , sent the manuscript of his ...
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... poem , -particularly to that ( Book I. vv . 594-599 ) where it is said of Satan , in his diminished brightness after his fall , that he still appeared " as when the Sun , new - risen , Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his ...
... poem , -particularly to that ( Book I. vv . 594-599 ) where it is said of Satan , in his diminished brightness after his fall , that he still appeared " as when the Sun , new - risen , Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his ...
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... Poem intituled Paradise Lost , or by what- soever other title or name the same is or shall be called or distinguished , now lately licensed to be printed ” ; on the understanding , however , that , at the end of the first impres- sion ...
... Poem intituled Paradise Lost , or by what- soever other title or name the same is or shall be called or distinguished , now lately licensed to be printed ” ; on the understanding , however , that , at the end of the first impres- sion ...
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... Poem in Tenne bookes by J. M. " The date of the above entry in the Stationers ' registers fixes the time about which printed copies of the Poem were ready for sale in London . There are few books , however , respecting the circumstances ...
... Poem in Tenne bookes by J. M. " The date of the above entry in the Stationers ' registers fixes the time about which printed copies of the Poem were ready for sale in London . There are few books , however , respecting the circumstances ...
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Adam Adam and Eve Aldersgate Street Almighty Angels Archangel arms beast Beelzebub behold blindness bliss BOOK burning lake called celestial Chaos Cherub Cherubim cloud creatures dark death deep delight divine dreadful dwell Earth Empyrean eternal evil eyes fair Fair Angel faith Father fear Fiend fierce fire flowers fruit gates glory gods grace hand happy hath heart Heaven Heavenly Hell highth hill human Ithuriel John Milton King labour less lest light live mankind Messiah Milton mind night o'er pain Paradise Lost peace poem Primum Mobile Ptolemaic system reign replied round sapience Satan seat seemed Serpent shalt sight soon sovran spake Sphere Spirits starry stars stood sweet taste thee thence thine things thither thou hast thought throne thunder thyself tree Universe voice whence wings wonder World Zephon