The Poetical Works of John Milton: With Notes of Various Authors. To which are Added Illustrations, and Some Account of the Life and Writings of Milton, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1809 |
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... shall tell , That never Britain can in vain excell ; The flighted arts futurity fhall truft , And rifing ages hasten to be just . At length our mighty bard's victorious lays Fill the loud voice of univerfal praise ; And baffled Spite ...
... shall tell , That never Britain can in vain excell ; The flighted arts futurity fhall truft , And rifing ages hasten to be just . At length our mighty bard's victorious lays Fill the loud voice of univerfal praise ; And baffled Spite ...
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... shall only remark in this place , that the foregoing ob- servation of Ariftotle , though it may be true in other occafions , does not hold in this ; because in the prefent cafe , though the perfons who fall into misfortune are of the ...
... shall only remark in this place , that the foregoing ob- servation of Ariftotle , though it may be true in other occafions , does not hold in this ; because in the prefent cafe , though the perfons who fall into misfortune are of the ...
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... shall show more at large hereafter ; though , con- fidering how all the poets of the age in which he wrote were infected with this wrong way of thinking , he is rather to be admired that he did not give more into it , than that he did ...
... shall show more at large hereafter ; though , con- fidering how all the poets of the age in which he wrote were infected with this wrong way of thinking , he is rather to be admired that he did not give more into it , than that he did ...
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... shall now remark the feveral defects which ap- pear in the FABLE , the CHARACTERS , the SENTI- MENTS , and the LANGUAGE , of Paradife Loft ; not doubting but the reader will pardon me , if I allege at the fame time whatever may be faid ...
... shall now remark the feveral defects which ap- pear in the FABLE , the CHARACTERS , the SENTI- MENTS , and the LANGUAGE , of Paradife Loft ; not doubting but the reader will pardon me , if I allege at the fame time whatever may be faid ...
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... shall now proceed to take notice of fuch beauties as appear to me more exquifite than the reft . Milton has proposed the subject of his Poem in the following verfes : " Of Man's firft difobedience , and the fruit " Of that forbidden ...
... shall now proceed to take notice of fuch beauties as appear to me more exquifite than the reft . Milton has proposed the subject of his Poem in the following verfes : " Of Man's firft difobedience , and the fruit " Of that forbidden ...
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Page 123 - And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
Page 418 - Are brought ; and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extremes, extremes by change more fierce, From beds of raging fire to starve in ice...
Page 384 - The almighty victor to spend all his rage; And that must end us, that must be our cure, To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Page 314 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Page 446 - Chaos umpire sits, And by decision more embroils the fray By which he reigns : next him, high arbiter, Chance governs all.
Page 193 - Charybdis, and by th' other whirlpool steard. So he with difficulty and labour hard Mov'd on, with difficulty and labour hee; But hee once past, soon after when man fell, Strange alteration! Sin and Death amain Following his track, such was the will of...
Page 379 - Up to our native seat: descent and fall To us is adverse. Who but felt of late, When the fierce foe hung on our broken rear Insulting, and pursued us through the deep, With what compulsion and laborious flight We sunk thus low...
Page 300 - He with his thunder: and till then who knew The force of those dire arms? yet not for those, Nor what the potent victor in his rage Can else inflict, do I repent or change, Though changed in outward lustre; that fixed mind And high disdain, from sense of injured merit...
Page 230 - ... devout prayer to that eternal Spirit who can enrich with all utterance and knowledge, and sends out his seraphim, with the hallowed fire of his altar, to touch and purify the lips of whom he pleases...
Page 43 - O, then, at last relent: is there no place Left for repentance, none for pardon left ? None left but by submission; and that word Disdain forbids me, and my dread of shame...