The Poetical Works of John Milton: Edited, with Memoir, Introductions, Notes, and an Essay on Milton's English and Versification, Band 3Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... Satan might be a better contrast to Paradise lost by our first parents too easily yielding to the same seducing Spirit . This remark is perfectly just ; but it receives elucidation and point from Ellwood's story of the way in which the ...
... Satan might be a better contrast to Paradise lost by our first parents too easily yielding to the same seducing Spirit . This remark is perfectly just ; but it receives elucidation and point from Ellwood's story of the way in which the ...
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... Satan , the story of whose fortunes , from his rebellion in Heaven on to his temptation of Adam and conquest thereby of Earth and the Universe of Man , forms the true thread of events in the first poem , here reappears in changed guise ...
... Satan , the story of whose fortunes , from his rebellion in Heaven on to his temptation of Adam and conquest thereby of Earth and the Universe of Man , forms the true thread of events in the first poem , here reappears in changed guise ...
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... Satan's triumph in Paradise Lost , it is to be remembered , was that he and his crew of Fallen Angels had succeeded in adding the " orbicular World " of Man , i.e. the whole Starry Universe or Cosmos with the Earth at its centre , to ...
... Satan's triumph in Paradise Lost , it is to be remembered , was that he and his crew of Fallen Angels had succeeded in adding the " orbicular World " of Man , i.e. the whole Starry Universe or Cosmos with the Earth at its centre , to ...
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... Satan is still their chief , the greatest in power and in ability , the leader in their councils , their governor , and the director of their common enterprises . He is no longer the same sublime spirit as in the Paradise Lost , in whom ...
... Satan is still their chief , the greatest in power and in ability , the leader in their councils , their governor , and the director of their common enterprises . He is no longer the same sublime spirit as in the Paradise Lost , in whom ...
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... Satan on his farther proceedings ; but the remainder of the Book brings us back to the Desert , where Satan , early in the second day , renews the temptation . This second day's temptation is the most protracted and laborious , and the ...
... Satan on his farther proceedings ; but the remainder of the Book brings us back to the Desert , where Satan , early in the second day , renews the temptation . This second day's temptation is the most protracted and laborious , and the ...
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Adam adjective Æneid Amphibrach ancient Angels aught Bethabara Blank Verse Book Cæsura called Chaos Chor Christ Comus Corineus Dactyl Dagon daughter death divine drama Earth English epic ESSAYS Euripides father glory goddess gods Greek hast hath Heaven Hell honour Iambic Iambus Introd Italian JOHN MILTON Keightley King L'Allegro Latin legend lines lords Lycidas meaning metre metrical Milton mind Minor Poems Muse occurs once original edition Ovid Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parthian passage peculiar perhaps Philistines phrase poet poetical prose Psalm rhyme Roman round Sams Samson Agonistes Satan Scripture sense Shakespeare shalt song Sonnet speech spelling spelt Spenser spheres Spirit Spondee stanza star strength supposed syllable syntax Temptation Thammuz thee things thou art thought throne tion Tragedy trisyllabic Trochee verb Vols Warton whole word write
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Seite 275 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune...
Seite 91 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems : therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions ; that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Seite 6 - 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...
Seite 179 - Farewell happy fields, Where joy for ever dwells : Hail horrors, hail Infernal world, and thou profoundest Hell, Receive thy new possessor ; one who brings A mind not to be chang'd by place or time. The mind is its own place, and in itself Can make a Heav'n of Hell, a Hell of Heav'n.
Seite 144 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast ; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame ; nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Seite 230 - Sweet echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell By slow Meander's margent green, And in the violet-embroidered vale Where the love-lorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well: Canst thou not tell me of a gentle pair That likest thy Narcissus are? O, if thou have Hid them in some flowery cave, Tell me but where, Sweet Queen of Parley, Daughter of the Sphere! So may'st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all Heaven's harmonies!
Seite 281 - He asked the waves, and asked the felon winds, What hard mishap hath doomed this gentle swain? And questioned every gust of rugged wings That blows from off each beaked promontory: They knew not of his story...
Seite 227 - With solemn touches troubled thoughts, and chase Anguish, and doubt, and fear, and sorrow, and pain, From mortal or immortal minds.
Seite 95 - A little onward lend thy guiding hand To these dark steps, a little further on; For yonder bank hath choice of sun or shade; There I am wont to sit, when any chance Relieves me from my task of servile toil, Daily...
Seite 80 - Then to the well-trod stage anon If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.