The Complete Poems and Major ProseFirst published by Odyssey Press in 1957, this classic edition provides Milton's poetry and major prose works, richly annotated, in a sturdy and affordable clothbound volume. |
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Page 13
... fire—as he whose head proved inviolable by the fell Parcae? was rapt away in a whirwind, leaving the banks of the Jordan behind him. Siccine tentasti caelo donasse Iācobum Quae septemgemino Bellua monte lates? Nimeliora tuum poterit ...
... fire—as he whose head proved inviolable by the fell Parcae? was rapt away in a whirwind, leaving the banks of the Jordan behind him. Siccine tentasti caelo donasse Iācobum Quae septemgemino Bellua monte lates? Nimeliora tuum poterit ...
Page 14
... fire.” How close your vaticinations came to the grim truth and how little your utterances lacked of fulfilment! For he did—almost—go to the celestial shores, a cindery ghost, whirled aloft by Tartarean fire. Quem modo Roma suis ...
... fire.” How close your vaticinations came to the grim truth and how little your utterances lacked of fulfilment! For he did—almost—go to the celestial shores, a cindery ghost, whirled aloft by Tartarean fire. Quem modo Roma suis ...
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... fire what remains of the ancients and with profane feet he will trample upon your neck—you, whose shoes kings were once glad to kiss. Yet you must not attack him with open war. To do so would be lost labor. Rather be shrewd enough to ...
... fire what remains of the ancients and with profane feet he will trample upon your neck—you, whose shoes kings were once glad to kiss. Yet you must not attack him with open war. To do so would be lost labor. Rather be shrewd enough to ...
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... fire, 40 And misty Regions of wide air next under, And hills of Snow and lofts of piled Thunder, May tell at length ... fires because Plato said that, “by the design of God . . . the planets came into existence for determining and ...
... fire, 40 And misty Regions of wide air next under, And hills of Snow and lofts of piled Thunder, May tell at length ... fires because Plato said that, “by the design of God . . . the planets came into existence for determining and ...
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... fire shall - - - • destroy the world, enveloping the Ingentique rogo flagrabit machina *ne, 1628) poles and summits of vast heaven, 3 while the fabric of the universe consumes in a mighty funeral 67 67. Milton thought of the prophecy of ...
... fire shall - - - • destroy the world, enveloping the Ingentique rogo flagrabit machina *ne, 1628) poles and summits of vast heaven, 3 while the fabric of the universe consumes in a mighty funeral 67 67. Milton thought of the prophecy of ...
Contents
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173 | |
Paradise Regained | 471 |
Samson Agonistes | 531 |
Prose | 595 |
Appendix | 1021 |
Index of Names | 1045 |
BACK COVER | 1060 |
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Adam Aeneid ancient angels Areopagitica Aristotle Beast behold bishops Book called Chorus Christ Christian church Comus dark death delight divine doctrine doth E. M. W. Tillyard Earth Euripides evil eyes faith Father fear fire glory God's goddess gods grace Greek hand happy hast hath heart Heav'n heavenly Hell Hesiod holy honor human John John Milton Jove King Latin meaning learned less light live Lord Lycidas marriage Milton mind Muses nature night Ovid Ovid's Paradise Lost Paradise Regained peace perhaps Philistines Plato poem poet praise prelates Psalm Roman Samson Agonistes Satan says Serpent song SONNET soul spake spirit stars stood story sweet thee things thir thou thought Throne tion tradition translation Tree truth verse VIII virtue wings wisdom words Zeus