Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books. The Author John Milton. The Sixth Edition. With Notes of Various Authors, by Thomas Newton, D.D. ...J. and R. Tonson, B. Dodd, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin [and 8 others in London], 1763 |
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... death of his own father , his houfe looked again like the house of the Mufes but his ftudies had like to have been inter- rupted by a call to public bufinefs ; for about this time there was a defign of conftituting him Adjutant General ...
... death of his own father , his houfe looked again like the house of the Mufes but his ftudies had like to have been inter- rupted by a call to public bufinefs ; for about this time there was a defign of conftituting him Adjutant General ...
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... death was published a book under his name intitled Είκων Βασιλική , or the royal image ; and this book , like Cafar's laft will , making a deeper impreffion , and exciting greater commisera- tion in the minds of the people , than the ...
... death was published a book under his name intitled Είκων Βασιλική , or the royal image ; and this book , like Cafar's laft will , making a deeper impreffion , and exciting greater commisera- tion in the minds of the people , than the ...
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... without delay . Thefe two pieces were communi- cated in manufcript to Mr. Toland by a friend , whɔ a little after Milton's death had them from his , ne- phew , phew ; and Mr. Toland gave them to be printed xliv The LIFE of MILTON .
... without delay . Thefe two pieces were communi- cated in manufcript to Mr. Toland by a friend , whɔ a little after Milton's death had them from his , ne- phew , phew ; and Mr. Toland gave them to be printed xliv The LIFE of MILTON .
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... death , who had collected feve- ral fuch pieces : an evident fign , that he thought it no mean employment , nor unworthy of a man of genius , to be an editor of the works of great au- thors . It was while he lived in Jewen Street , that ...
... death , who had collected feve- ral fuch pieces : an evident fign , that he thought it no mean employment , nor unworthy of a man of genius , to be an editor of the works of great au- thors . It was while he lived in Jewen Street , that ...
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... death of his friend and school- fellow Deodati , he proposed the same design and the fame fubject , and declared his ambition of wri- ting fomething in his native language , which might render his name illuftrious in these ilands ...
... death of his friend and school- fellow Deodati , he proposed the same design and the fame fubject , and declared his ambition of wri- ting fomething in his native language , which might render his name illuftrious in these ilands ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Adam Adam and Eve Addifon Æneid againſt alfo Angels battel beauty becauſe befides beft Belial Bentley call'd Cant darkneſs defcribed defcription earth expreffion exprefs Faery Queen faid fame fays fecond feems feen fenfe fent fentiments ferve feven feveral fhall fhort fhould fhows fide fight fignifies fince fire firft firſt fome fometimes fons foon fpeaking fpeech ftars ftill fubject fublime fuch fuppofe fyllable glory hath Heaven Hell himſelf hoft Homer Hume Iliad inftance king laft Latin lefs likewife meaſure Milton moft Moloch moſt muft muſt night obferves occafion Ovid paffage Paradife Loft Pearce perfon poem poet pow'r prefent profe publiſhed radife reader reafon reft reprefented Richardfon rifing Satan ſhall Spenfer Spirits ſtood Taffo thee thefe theſe things thofe thoſe thou thought throne Thyer tion tranflated uſed verfe Virg Virgil whofe whoſe word worfe
Beliebte Passagen
Seite vii - What recks it them? What need they? They are sped; And when they list, their lean and flashy songs Grate on their scrannel pipes of wretched straw ; The hungry sheep look up and are not fed, But swoln with wind and the rank mist they draw, Rot inwardly and foul contagion spread; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace, and nothing said. But that two-handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and smite no more.
Seite 186 - And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Seite 414 - By none ; and if not equal all, yet free, Equally free ; for orders and degrees Jar not with liberty, but well consist.
Seite 31 - Aloft, incumbent on the dusky air, That felt unusual weight; till on dry land He lights — if it were land that ever...
Seite 256 - 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...
Seite 257 - Ah, wherefore! he deserved no such return From me, whom he created what I was In that bright eminence, and with his good Upbraided none; nor was his service hard.
Seite 146 - Whence and what art thou, execrable shape! That dar'st, though grim and terrible, advance Thy miscreated front athwart my way To yonder gates? through them I mean to pass, That be assured, without leave asked of thee: Retire, or taste thy folly; and learn by proof, Hell-born! not to contend with spirits of Heaven!
Seite 354 - Evil into the mind of God or man May come and go, so unapproved, and leave No spot or blame behind...
Seite 79 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements: from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith, like a falling star, On Lemnos, the Aegean isle.
Seite 272 - Upon the rapid current, which, through veins Of porous earth with kindly thirst up-drawn, Rose a fresh fountain, and with many a rill Water'd the garden ; thence united fell Down the steep glade, and met the nether flood, Which from his darksome passage now appears ; And now, divided into four main streams, Runs diverse, wandering many a famous realm And country...