Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author. With a Critical Dissertation, on the Poetical Works of Milton, and Observations on His Language and Versification, Volumes 1-2 |
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It is not to be doubted but an interview of that nature , so little expected , must wonderfully affect him ; and though at first he showed signs of aversion , yet he did not long remain inexorable : his wife's intreaties , and the ...
It is not to be doubted but an interview of that nature , so little expected , must wonderfully affect him ; and though at first he showed signs of aversion , yet he did not long remain inexorable : his wife's intreaties , and the ...
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... nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells of rough " satyrs and fauns with cloven heel . " Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief . new . In this Poem there is no nature , for there is no truth ; there ...
... nor calls upon Arethuse and Mincius , nor tells of rough " satyrs and fauns with cloven heel . " Where there is leisure for fiction there is little grief . new . In this Poem there is no nature , for there is no truth ; there ...
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prologue spoken in the wild wood by the atten- dant Spirit , is addressed to the audience : a mode of communication so contrary to the nature of dramatic representation , that no precedents can support it . The discourse of the Spirit ...
prologue spoken in the wild wood by the atten- dant Spirit , is addressed to the audience : a mode of communication so contrary to the nature of dramatic representation , that no precedents can support it . The discourse of the Spirit ...
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To put these materials to poetical use , is required an imagination capable of paint- ing nature , and realizing fiction . Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language , distinguished all the delicacies ...
To put these materials to poetical use , is required an imagination capable of paint- ing nature , and realizing fiction . Nor is he yet a poet till he has attained the whole extension of his language , distinguished all the delicacies ...
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... the original parents of mankind ; with whose actions the elements consented ; whose rectitude , or deviation of will , depended the state of terrestrial nature , and the con- dition of all the future inhabitants of the globe ...
... the original parents of mankind ; with whose actions the elements consented ; whose rectitude , or deviation of will , depended the state of terrestrial nature , and the con- dition of all the future inhabitants of the globe ...
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Page 3 - 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 Heav'nly Muse, that on the secret top Of Oreb, or of Sinai, didst inspire That Shepherd, who first taught the chosen Seed, In the Beginning how the Heav'ns and Earth Rose out of Chaos...
Page 23 - Arch-Angel ruin'd, and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams; or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page xix - The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates PROVING THAT IT IS LAWFUL, AND HATH BEEN HELD SO THROUGH ALL AGES, FOR ANY WHO HAVE THE POWER TO CALL TO ACCOUNT A TYRANT, OR WICKED KING, AND AFTER DUE CONVICTION TO DEPOSE AND PUT HIM TO DEATH, IF THE ORDINARY MAGISTRATE HAVE NEGLECTED OR DENIED TO DO IT.
Page 74 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 9 - And reassembling our afflicted powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our enemy, our own loss how repair, How overcome this dire calamity, What reinforcement we may gain from hope, 190 If not what resolution from despair.
Page 74 - Those other two, equalled with me in fate So were I equalled with them in renown, Blind Thamyris, and blind Maeonides, And Tiresias and Phineus prophets old. Then feed on thoughts, that voluntary move Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note...
Page 10 - Created hugest that swim the ocean stream: Him, haply, slumbering on the Norway foam, The pilot of some small night-founder'd skiff Deeming some island, oft, as seamen tell, With fixed anchor in his scaly rind Moors by his side under the lee, while night Invests the sea, and wished morn delays...
Page 104 - What feign'd submission swore? Ease would recant Vows made in pain, as violent and void. For never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierced so deep...
Page 103 - Me miserable! which way shall I fly Infinite wrath, and infinite despair ? Which way I fly is hell; myself am hell; And, in the lowest deep, a lower deep Still threatening to devour me, opens wide, To which the hell I suffer seems a heaven.
Page 74 - Tunes her nocturnal note : thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine ; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me...
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| Title | Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author. With a Critical Dissertation, on the Poetical Works of Milton, and Observations on His Language and Versification, Volumes 1-2 Paradise Lost: With Notes, Selected from Newton and Others, to which is Prefixed, The Life of the Author. With a Critical Dissertation, on the Poetical Works of Milton, and Observations on His Language and Versification, Samuel Johnson |
| Authors | John Milton, Samuel Johnson |
| Publisher | J. Parsons, 1796 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 25 Aug 2006 |
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