The Poetical Works ...Macmillan & Company, 1882 |
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... round the central Earth , so as to intermingle with human affairs continually , and exercise their diabolic functions on the successive genera- tions of men . Originally Angels in the Empyreal Heaven , then doomed spirits in Hell , they ...
... round the central Earth , so as to intermingle with human affairs continually , and exercise their diabolic functions on the successive genera- tions of men . Originally Angels in the Empyreal Heaven , then doomed spirits in Hell , they ...
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... round him ; after which he is led by the Spirit into the Wilderness , there to revolve his past life , and meditate on the ministry he is about to begin . It is after he has been already forty days in the Desert , and has begun to feel ...
... round him ; after which he is led by the Spirit into the Wilderness , there to revolve his past life , and meditate on the ministry he is about to begin . It is after he has been already forty days in the Desert , and has begun to feel ...
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... round , and with them came From Nazareth the son of Joseph deemed To the flood Jordan - came as then obscure , Unmarked , unknown . But him the Baptist soon Descried , divinely warned , and witness bore As to his worthier , and would ...
... round , and with them came From Nazareth the son of Joseph deemed To the flood Jordan - came as then obscure , Unmarked , unknown . But him the Baptist soon Descried , divinely warned , and witness bore As to his worthier , and would ...
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... round , His holy meditations thus pursued : - " O what a multitude of thoughts at once Awakened in me swarm , while I consider What from within I feel myself , and hear What from without comes often to my ears , Ill sorting with my ...
... round , His holy meditations thus pursued : - " O what a multitude of thoughts at once Awakened in me swarm , while I consider What from within I feel myself , and hear What from without comes often to my ears , Ill sorting with my ...
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... round , on every side beheld A pathless desert , dusk with horrid shades . The way he came , not having marked return , Was difficult , by human steps untrod ; And he still on was led , but with such thoughts Accompanied of things past ...
... round , on every side beheld A pathless desert , dusk with horrid shades . The way he came , not having marked return , Was difficult , by human steps untrod ; And he still on was led , but with such thoughts Accompanied of things past ...
Common terms and phrases
Adam adjective Amphibrach ancient Angels Bethabara Blank Verse Book Cæsura called Chaos Chor Christ's Comus Corineus Dactyl Dagon daughter death divine drama Earth English epic Euripides father glory goddess gods Greek hast hath Heaven Hell honour Iambic Iambus Introd Italian Jupiter Keightley King L'Allegro Latin legend lines Locrine lords Lycidas meaning metre metrical Milton Milton's poetry mind Muse occurs once original edition Ovid Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Parthian passage peculiar perhaps Philistines phrase poet poetical prose Psalm rhyme river 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 Theocritus things thou art thought throne tion Tragedy trisyllabic Trochee verb Warton whole word writers
Popular passages
Page 277 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune...
Page 146 - 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.
Page 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...
Page 283 - 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...
Page 105 - Just are the ways of God, And justifiable to men ; Unless there be, who think not God at all . If any be, they walk obscure ; For of such doctrine never was there school, But the heart of the fool, And no man therein doctor but himself.
Page 125 - It is not virtue, wisdom, valour, wit, Strength, comeliness of shape, or amplest merit That woman's love can win, or long inherit ; But what it is, hard is to say, Harder to hit, (Which way soever men refer it,) Much like thy riddle, Samson, in one day Or seven, though one should musing sit.
Page 181 - 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.
Page 82 - 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.
Page 97 - 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...
Page 118 - Out, out, hyaena ! these are thy wonted arts, And arts of every woman false like thee...