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... poem , to be begun on his return , and to be his occupation through as many years as might be As we learn from his poem to Manso , and still more distinctly from his Epitaphium Damonis , an epic on the subject of Arthur , involving the ...
... poem , to be begun on his return , and to be his occupation through as many years as might be As we learn from his poem to Manso , and still more distinctly from his Epitaphium Damonis , an epic on the subject of Arthur , involving the ...
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... poems . It was on the Church question that Milton first spoke out . The Long Parliament had , with singular rapidity , in the first months of its sitting , swept away accumulated abuses in State and Law , brought Strafford to trial and ...
... poems . It was on the Church question that Milton first spoke out . The Long Parliament had , with singular rapidity , in the first months of its sitting , swept away accumulated abuses in State and Law , brought Strafford to trial and ...
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... , and Euripides , in the Prose Pamphlets ( now appended to the Minor English Poems ) . 1641-1645 . Philosophus ad Regem Quendam ( Greek Verses ) . BARBICAN , LONDON . 1645-1647 : ætat . 37-39 . MEMOIR OF MILTON . XXV.
... , and Euripides , in the Prose Pamphlets ( now appended to the Minor English Poems ) . 1641-1645 . Philosophus ad Regem Quendam ( Greek Verses ) . BARBICAN , LONDON . 1645-1647 : ætat . 37-39 . MEMOIR OF MILTON . XXV.
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... Poems ( see General Intro- duction to Minor Poems ) . Milton evidently attached some importance to the appearance of the little volume at that particular time . It would remind people that he was not merely a controversial prose ...
... Poems ( see General Intro- duction to Minor Poems ) . Milton evidently attached some importance to the appearance of the little volume at that particular time . It would remind people that he was not merely a controversial prose ...
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... Poems ) . 1649 . In Salmasii Hundredam : Scrap of Latin parody in Defensio Prima ( now annexed to the Sylva ) . 1651 . PETTY FRANCE , WESTMINSTER . 1652-1660 : atat . 44—52 . In the beginning of 1652 , for some reason or other , Milton ...
... Poems ) . 1649 . In Salmasii Hundredam : Scrap of Latin parody in Defensio Prima ( now annexed to the Sylva ) . 1651 . PETTY FRANCE , WESTMINSTER . 1652-1660 : atat . 44—52 . In the beginning of 1652 , for some reason or other , Milton ...
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Page 53 - YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due...
Page 183 - So dear to Heaven is saintly Chastity, That, when a soul is found sincerely so, A thousand liveried angels lackey her, Driving far off each thing of sin and guilt...
Page 202 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream. Ay me ! I fondly dream
Page 157 - Far from all resort of mirth, Save the cricket on the hearth, Or the bellman's drowsy charm, To bless the doors from nightly harm; Or let my lamp at midnight hour Be seen in some high lonely tower, Where I may oft out-watch the Bear...
Page 59 - Lest the wise world should look into your moan And mock you with me after I am gone.
Page 157 - Pelops' line, Or the tale of Troy divine, Or what (though rare) of later age Ennobled hath the buskined stage. But, O sad virgin, that thy power Might raise Musaeus from his bower! Or bid the soul of Orpheus sing Such notes as, warbled to the string, Drew iron tears down Pluto's cheek, And made Hell grant what love did seek...
Page 157 - And missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven Green, To behold the wandering Moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the Heaven's wide pathless way; And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud. Oft on a Plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off Curfew sound, Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging slow with sullen roar...
Page 139 - Ring out, ye crystal spheres! Once bless our human ears, If ye have power to touch our senses so; And let your silver chime Move in melodious time; And let the bass of Heaven's deep organ blow; And with your ninefold harmony Make up full consort to the angelic symphony.
Page 181 - And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude ; Where, with her best nurse, Contemplation, She plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings, That in the various bustle of resort Were all too ruffled, and sometimes impair'd. He that has light within his own clear breast, May sit i...
Page 59 - No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell : Nay, if you read this line, remember not The hand that writ it; for I love you so That I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot If thinking on me then should make you woe.