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 7
... heart, small though they were! If only I might bridle my cupidity and my voracious gullet! Now both the fruit and the parent tree are lost to me.” Tandem, care, tuae mihi pervenere tabellae, Pertulit et voces nuntia charta tuas ...
... heart, small though they were! If only I might bridle my cupidity and my voracious gullet! Now both the fruit and the parent tree are lost to me.” Tandem, care, tuae mihi pervenere tabellae, Pertulit et voces nuntia charta tuas ...
Page 29
... heart and do not let your anxious hope yield to your embarrassments nor pale fear strike palsy to your bones. Even though you are beset by flashing arms and though a thousand shafts threaten you with death, your unarmed breast shall not ...
... heart and do not let your anxious hope yield to your embarrassments nor pale fear strike palsy to your bones. Even though you are beset by flashing arms and though a thousand shafts threaten you with death, your unarmed breast shall not ...
Page 52
... heart and his lips alike breathe out Jove. But if you will know what I am doing (if only you think it of any importance to know whether I am doing anything)—I am singing the heaven-descended King, the bringer of peace, and the blessed ...
... heart and his lips alike breathe out Jove. But if you will know what I am doing (if only you think it of any importance to know whether I am doing anything)—I am singing the heaven-descended King, the bringer of peace, and the blessed ...
Page 54
... heart. IO glances with the weapons of Cupid, whose darts—as Spenser declared in Amoretti VIII, 6—may serve “to base affections wound.” Qual in colle aspro, al' imbrunir disera, L'avezza giovinetta pastorella Va bagnando I'erbetta strana ...
... heart. IO glances with the weapons of Cupid, whose darts—as Spenser declared in Amoretti VIII, 6—may serve “to base affections wound.” Qual in colle aspro, al' imbrunir disera, L'avezza giovinetta pastorella Va bagnando I'erbetta strana ...
Page 55
... heart, poem as Milton does here, and as Spenser did in says, “This is the language of which the last stanza of his Epithalamion. Spenser's i. 5 kes his b go g stanza is an elaboration of the Italian canzone, whose We makeS his boaSt ...
... heart, poem as Milton does here, and as Spenser did in says, “This is the language of which the last stanza of his Epithalamion. Spenser's i. 5 kes his b go g stanza is an elaboration of the Italian canzone, whose We makeS his boaSt ...
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