A Milton HandbookAppleton-Century-Crofts, 1961 - 465 pages |
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Page 51
... thee I call , But with no friendly voice ; and add thy name , O Sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance , from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me ...
... thee I call , But with no friendly voice ; and add thy name , O Sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance , from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me ...
Page 300
... thee I live , Though now to death I yeild , and am his due All that of me can die , yet that debt paid , Thou wilt not leave me in the loathsom grave His prey . This quotation illustrates a further characteristic element in Milton's ...
... thee I live , Though now to death I yeild , and am his due All that of me can die , yet that debt paid , Thou wilt not leave me in the loathsom grave His prey . This quotation illustrates a further characteristic element in Milton's ...
Page 315
... thee " Strange horror seise thee , and pangs unfelt before is unthinkable . Mr. Bridges , therefore , concludes that Mil- ton scanned his verse one way ( syllabically ) and read it another . Yet Milton's elisions are not without ...
... thee " Strange horror seise thee , and pangs unfelt before is unthinkable . Mr. Bridges , therefore , concludes that Mil- ton scanned his verse one way ( syllabically ) and read it another . Yet Milton's elisions are not without ...
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