CONTENTS.

LIFE OF MILTON

APPENDIX:—

I. MEMORANDA RELATING TO THE FAMILY OF POWELL, OF FOREST HILL, OXFORD-

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III. MILTON'S AGREEMENT WITH MR. SYMONS FOR "PARADISE LOST"

IV. COWLEY'S PREFACE TO HIS POEMS, 1656

V. SELECTED ENCOMIASTIC LINES

PARADISE LOST:-

IV. "Diodati, e te l' dirò con maraviglia"

v. "Per certo i bei vostr' occhi, Donna mia"

VI. "Giovane piano, e semplicetto amante"

VII. On his being arrived to the Age of twenty-three

VIII. When the Assault was intended to the City.

IX. To a virtuous young Lady

x. To the Lady Margaret Ley

XI. On the Detraction which followed upon my writing certain Treatises

XII. On the same

XIII. To Mr. H. Lawes, on the publishing his Airs

XIV. On the Religious Memory of Mrs. Catharine Thomson .

XV. To the Lord General Fairfax

AN EPITAPH ON THE ADMIRABLE DRAMATIC POET, WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE
ON THE UNIVERSITY CARRIER.

ON THE NEW FORCERS OF CONSCIENCE UNDER THE LONG PARLIAMENT

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JOANNIS MILTONI LONDINENSIS POEMATA

ELEGIARUM LIBER:-

1. Ad Carolum Deodatum

II. In Obitum Præconis Academici Cantabrigiensis

III. In Obitum Præsulis Wintoniensis

IV. Ad Thomam Junium, &c.

v. In Adventum Veris .

VI. Ad Carolum Deodatum ruri commorantem

VII..

EPIGRAMMATUM LIBER:-

1. In Proditionem Bombardicam

II. In eandem

III. In eandem

IV. In eandem

v. In Inventorem Bombardæ

VI. Ad Leonoram Romæ canentem

VII. Ad eandem

VIII. Ad eandem

IX. In Salmasii Hundredam

x. In Salmasium

XL. In Morum

XII. Apologus de Rustico et Hero

XIII. Ad Christinam Suecorum Reginam, nomine Cromwelli

In Obitum Præsulis Eliensis

838

My task, I hear, is done. No call on me
Remains, my mighty labour to conclude.
In sickness, in calamity, in age,

And destitution ;-in a foreign clime,

I have gone through my work of sanctity;
Though sometimes by my fear or toil subdued:
And sometimes, dazzled by the heavenly page,
I have sunk lifeless at its rays sublime.

Oft did I pause, and oft despondent turn'd,
Ere yet I entered on the dread career;
But fitfully the flame within me burn'd:

Yet now and then a spirit to mine ear

Came; and thus said, as by a voice from Heaven:"Follow thy youthful vow, and thou shalt be forgiven!”

GENEVA,

October 1835.