A Milton HandbookF. S. Crofts & Company, 1926 - 304 pages |
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Page 143
... Adam Eve Conscience Death Labour SECOND DRAFT ( canceled ) 2 the Persons Moses Wisdom , Justice , Mercy Heavenly Love The Evening Star Hesperus Chorus of Angels Lucifer Lucifer } with the serpent Adam Eve Conscience Sicknesse Labour ...
... Adam Eve Conscience Death Labour SECOND DRAFT ( canceled ) 2 the Persons Moses Wisdom , Justice , Mercy Heavenly Love The Evening Star Hesperus Chorus of Angels Lucifer Lucifer } with the serpent Adam Eve Conscience Sicknesse Labour ...
Page 144
... Adams ruine Chorus feares for Adam and relates Lucifers rebellion and fall Act 4 Adam fallen Eve Conscience cites them to gods examination Chorus bewails and tells the good Adam hath lost Act 5 Adam and Eve , driven out of Paradice ...
... Adams ruine Chorus feares for Adam and relates Lucifers rebellion and fall Act 4 Adam fallen Eve Conscience cites them to gods examination Chorus bewails and tells the good Adam hath lost Act 5 Adam and Eve , driven out of Paradice ...
Page 145
... Adam Unparadised . The Angel Gabriel , either de- scending or entering - showing , since this globe was created , his frequency as much on Earth as in Heaven- describes Paradise . Next the Chorus , showing the reason of his coming to ...
... Adam Unparadised . The Angel Gabriel , either de- scending or entering - showing , since this globe was created , his frequency as much on Earth as in Heaven- describes Paradise . Next the Chorus , showing the reason of his coming to ...
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... Adam's fall . - Adam then and Eve return and accuse one another ; but especially Adam lays the blame to his wife - is stub- born in his offence . Justice appears , reasons with him , convinces him . The Chorus admonisheth Adam , and ...
... Adam's fall . - Adam then and Eve return and accuse one another ; but especially Adam lays the blame to his wife - is stub- born in his offence . Justice appears , reasons with him , convinces him . The Chorus admonisheth Adam , and ...
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... Adam , who is at once the progenitor and the representative of the race , the cause and type of human sin . Consideration of this subject carries the Christian inevitably on to the redemption , without which sin is unintelligible in a ...
... Adam , who is at once the progenitor and the representative of the race , the cause and type of human sin . Consideration of this subject carries the Christian inevitably on to the redemption , without which sin is unintelligible in a ...
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Page 40 - O thou that with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new world; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name 0 sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down 40 Warring in heaven against heaven's matchless king: Ah wherefore!
Page 238 - 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, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful seat, Sing, heavenly Muse...
Page 147 - More safe I sing with mortal voice, unchanged To hoarse or mute, though fallen on evil days, On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues, In darkness, and with dangers compassed round, And solitude; yet not alone, while thou Visit'st my slumbers nightly, or when Morn Purples the East.
Page 277 - I was confirmed in this opinion, that he who would not be frustrate of his hope to write well hereafter in laudable things, ought himself to be a true poem...
Page 281 - Nation, the Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral Drama in the Song of Solomon consisting of two persons and a double Chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately Tragedy, shutting up and intermingling her solemn Scenes and Acts with a sevenfold Chorus of hallelujahs and harping symphonies : and this my opinion the grave authority of Pareus commenting that book is sufficient to confirm.
Page 242 - Indian mount, or fairy elves, Whose midnight revels, by a forest side, Or fountain, some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees...
Page 39 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...
Page 240 - Warred on by cranes : though all the giant brood Of Phlegra with the heroic race were joined That fought at Thebes and Ilium, on each side Mixed with auxiliar gods ; and what resounds In fable or romance of Uther's son Begirt with British and Armoric knights...
Page 259 - The secrets of th' Abyss to spy. He pass'd the flaming bounds of Place and Time: The living Throne, the...
Page 69 - Colasterion ; a Reply to A nameless Answer against the Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce...