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 16
... wings through the liquid air. Wherever he flies warring winds run before him; clouds mass up and thunderbolts flash incessantly. Now his speed had carried him beyond the frosty Alps and he reaches the borders of Italy. To his left was ...
... wings through the liquid air. Wherever he flies warring winds run before him; clouds mass up and thunderbolts flash incessantly. Now his speed had carried him beyond the frosty Alps and he reaches the borders of Italy. To his left was ...
Page 19
... wings about the place and unsubstantial ghosts shriek perpetually through the mute silences.” The conscious earth” rots with blood. Murder and Treason themselves shudder in the inmost depths of the cavern and, though no one pursues them ...
... wings about the place and unsubstantial ghosts shriek perpetually through the mute silences.” The conscious earth” rots with blood. Murder and Treason themselves shudder in the inmost depths of the cavern and, though no one pursues them ...
Page 21
... wings and covers her slender body with parti-colored feathers, and in her right hand she takes a trumpet of Temesan brass.”97 She makes no delay, but on her wings goes oaring through the yielding air. Not content to outstrip the swift ...
... wings and covers her slender body with parti-colored feathers, and in her right hand she takes a trumpet of Temesan brass.”97 She makes no delay, but on her wings goes oaring through the yielding air. Not content to outstrip the swift ...
Page 23
... wings and the clear air of heaven rang with the triumphal trumpet. Everyone saluted his new companion with an embrace and a song, and one of them uttered these words from his serene lips: “Come, my son, and joyously enter into the ...
... wings and the clear air of heaven rang with the triumphal trumpet. Everyone saluted his new companion with an embrace and a song, and one of them uttered these words from his serene lips: “Come, my son, and joyously enter into the ...
Page 39
... wings and the birds seem to carry their blandishments to you. The earth is not so bold as to beg for your love without offering a dowry in return and she makes no pauper's appeal for the nuptials that she desires. In her bounty she ...
... wings and the birds seem to carry their blandishments to you. The earth is not so bold as to beg for your love without offering a dowry in return and she makes no pauper's appeal for the nuptials that she desires. In her bounty she ...
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