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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... According to this calculation , the poem remained in manuscript for about four years . It was not published till 1671 , when Paradise Lost had been in circulation for four years , and when the first edition of that poem must have been ...
... According to this calculation , the poem remained in manuscript for about four years . It was not published till 1671 , when Paradise Lost had been in circulation for four years , and when the first edition of that poem must have been ...
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... according to their characters and faculties of mischief , but occasionally meeting in council somewhere in the element of Air or Mist . Satan is still their chief , the greatest in power and in ability , the leader in their councils ...
... according to their characters and faculties of mischief , but occasionally meeting in council somewhere in the element of Air or Mist . Satan is still their chief , the greatest in power and in ability , the leader in their councils ...
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... according to Phillips , even during the three years that were spared Milton to note its reception , he discovered critical misconceptions which have transmitted themselves to our time . " Is Paradise Regained complete or not ? " is a ...
... according to Phillips , even during the three years that were spared Milton to note its reception , he discovered critical misconceptions which have transmitted themselves to our time . " Is Paradise Regained complete or not ? " is a ...
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... according to his own idea of the theme and its capabilities.- " Well , then , " some of the critics continue , raising a second question , " can the poem properly be called an epic ? " They have in view the Iliad , the Odyssey , and the ...
... according to his own idea of the theme and its capabilities.- " Well , then , " some of the critics continue , raising a second question , " can the poem properly be called an epic ? " They have in view the Iliad , the Odyssey , and the ...
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... according to its noblest ancient models , —especially as he could have had no thought , when meditating his Scriptural Tragedies , of adapting them for actual performance . Such a tragedy as he had meant to write would not have been the ...
... according to its noblest ancient models , —especially as he could have had no thought , when meditating his Scriptural Tragedies , of adapting them for actual performance . Such a tragedy as he had meant to write would not have been 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.