 | John Milton, Samuel Johnson - 1796 - 610 pages
...is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth ; rebellion against the Supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings ; the...Poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind ; with whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1800 - 714 pages
...is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of Lea veil and of earth; rebellion against the Supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings ; the...events can be hastened or retarded only by persons of elevated.dignifyj Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all other greatness shrinks away.... | |
 | Great Britain - 1804 - 716 pages
...worlds, the revolutions ef heaven and of earth; rebellion against the Supreme King, raised by th« highest order of created beings; the overthrow of...and innocence, their forfeiture of immortality, and -thek restoration to hope and peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded ortly by persons of derated... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 336 pages
...is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of Heaven and of Earth ; rebellion, against the supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings ; the...poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind ; with whose... | |
 | John Milton - 1807 - 514 pages
...is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth ; rebellion, against the Supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings ; the...poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beiugs, the original parents of mankind ; with whose... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 560 pages
...is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of Heaven and of Earth; rebellion against the supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings; the...poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind ; with whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 476 pages
...revolutions of Heaven and of Earth ; rebellion, against the supreme King, raised bjj the VOL. IX. M highest order of created beings ; the overthrow of...poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind ; with whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth: rebellion against the Supreme King, raised by the highest order of created beings ; the...poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind ; with whose... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 420 pages
...revolutions of heaven and of earth ; rebellion against the supreme king, raised by the highest ordcnpf created beings ; the overthrow of their host, and...peace. Great events can be hastened or retarded 'only bypersons of elevated dignity. Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all other greatness... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1816 - 486 pages
...the revolutions of Heaven and of Earth; rebellion, against the supreme King, raised by the VOL. IX. M highest order of created beings ; the overthrow of...poem, all other greatness shrinks away. The weakest of his agents are the highest and noblest of human beings, the original parents of mankind ; with whose... | |
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The subject of an epic poem is naturally an event of great importance. That of Milton is not the destruction of a city, the conduct of a colony, or the foundation of an empire. His subject is the fate of worlds, the revolutions of heaven and of earth;... 
